1st edition of table tennis event at the Olympics
Seoul, Korea
Yoo Nam-kyu 
Kim Ki-taek 
Erik Lindh 
TOURNAMENTS 
1992 OG 
The inaugural edition of table tennis at the Olympic Games in Seoul saw a dominance of the local athletes Yoo Nam-kyu and Kim Ki-taek who reached the final of the singles event. The 20-year-old Yoo Nam-kyu won the final 3-1 and became the first Olympic champion in table tennis. The legendary Hungarian international Tibor Klampar also had a memorable run, finishing the tournament at the fourth place.
FINAL
Yoo Nam-kyu 
Kim Ki-taek 
3RD PLACE GAME 
Erik Lindh 
Tibor Klampar
1/2 FINALS 
Yoo Nam-kyu 
Erik Lindh Kim Ki-taek 
Tibor Klampar
5TH PLACE GAME 
Jiang Jialiang 
Chen Longcan
7TH PLACE GAME Jörgen Persson 
Jan-Ove Waldner
5-8TH PLACE Jiang Jialiang Jörgen Persson Chen Longcan 
Jan-Ove Waldner
1/4 FINALS Yoo Nam-kyu Jörgen Persson 
Erik Lindh 
Jiang Jialiang 
Tibor Klampar 
Chen Longcan Kim Ki-taek Jan-Ove Waldner
ROUND OF 16 Yoo Nam-kyu 
Zoran Primorac Jörgen Persson 
Andrzej Grubba Erik Lindh 
Seiji Ono Jiang Jialiang 
Desmond Douglas Tibor Klampar 
Ding Yi Chen Longcan Ilija Lupulesku Kim Ki-taek Xu Zengcai Jan-Ove Waldner Leszek Kucharski
GROUP STAGE
GROUP A
Jiang Jialiang 
Tibor Klampar 
Alan Cooke
Jean-Michel Saive
Jean-P. Gatien
Sean O’Neill
Carlos Kawai
Joudi Lufti
1
1-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-1
1-3
2-3
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-0
3-1
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-2
3-0
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
5
3-0
3-2
3-1
3-2
0-3
1-3
0-3
6
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
1-3
1-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-1
0-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
P
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
GROUP B
Jan-O. Waldner Xu Zengcai 
Georg Böhm Patrick Birocheau
Chih Chin-long
Tommy Meringgi
Barry Griffiths
Gilani Hosnani
1
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-2
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-0
3-0
0-3
1-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-0
3-0
1-3
1-3
3-2
0-3
5
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-1
0-3
0-3
0-3
6
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-0
2-3
0-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-1
2-3
3-0
3-2
1-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
P
14
13
12
10
10
9
9
7
GROUP C
Ding Yi Chen Longcan 
Lo Chuen-tsung Wu Wen-chia Zsolt Harczi
Yome Bankole
Ali Hussain Alain Choo Choy
1
1-3
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-1
2-3
0-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-2
3-2
1-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-1
0-3
0-3
0-3
5
3-0
3-0
3-0
1-3
3-2
0-3
0-3
6
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-0
2-3
1-3
0-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-1
1-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
P
14
13
12
10
10
10
8
7
GROUP D
Andrzej Grubba 
Zoran Primorac Jörg Roßkopf
Yoshihito Miyazaki Atanda Musa
Gary Haberl
Sujay Ghorpade
Francisco Lopez
1
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-0
1-3
0-3
3-1
0-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-0
3-1
2-3
2-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-0
3-2
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
5
3-0
1-3
3-2
3-0
1-3
1-3
0-3
6
3-1
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-1
2-3
0-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-2
2-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-2
P
14
12
12
11
11
9
8
7
GROUP E
Kim Ki-taek 
Jörgen Persson Kiyoshi Saito Kamlesh Mehta
Mariano Lukov Piotr Molenda
Jorge Gambra
Sherif Elsaket
1
2-3
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
2
3-2
2-3
1-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-2
3-2
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-1
3-0
1-3
1-3
0-3
1-3
5
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
0-3
2-3
1-3
6
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-1
3-0
1-3
1-3
7
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-2
3-1
0-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-1
3-1
3-0
P
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
GROUP F Erik Lindh D.Douglas Huang Huei-cheh
Farjad Saif Zoran Kalinic Claudio Kano Ashraf Helmy
Raymundo Fermin
1
0-3
2-3
1-3
2-3
1-3
0-3
1-3
2
3-0
1-3
0-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-2
3-1
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-1
3-0
3-0
1-3
0-3
3-1
1-3
5
3-2
3-0
3-1
3-1
2-3
0-3
0-3
6
3-1
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-2
1-3
0-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-0
1-3
3-0
3-1
1-3
8
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-1
P
14
13
12
10
10
9
9
7
GROUP G Yoo Nam-kyu L.Kucharski 
Jindrich Pansky Carl Prean Vong Lu-veng
Gideon Joe Ng Mario Alvarez Mourad Sta
1
0-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-0
1-3
0-3
1-3
2-3
0-3
1-3
3
3-0
3-1
2-3
1-3
0-3
1-3
0-3
4
3-1
3-0
3-2
0-3
1-3
1-3
0-3
5
3-0
3-1
3-1
3-0
2-3
2-3
0-3
6
3-0
3-2
3-0
3-1
3-2
0-3
0-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-1
3-1
3-2
3-0
0-3
8
3-0
3-1
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
P
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
GROUP H Ilija Lupulesku Seiji Ono Liu Fuk-man Kim Wan
Andrei Mazunov
M.Constantini Marcos Nunez
Garfield Jones
1
1-3
0-3
0-3
2-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
2
3-1
2-3
1-3
3-2
2-3
0-3
0-3
3
3-0
3-2
1-3
2-3
0-3
0-3
0-3
4
3-0
3-1
3-1
1-3
1-3
0-3
0-3
5
3-2
2-3
3-2
3-1
0-3
0-3
0-3
6
3-1
3-2
3-0
3-1
3-0
0-3
2-3
7
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
1-3
8
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-0
3-2
3-1
P
14
12
12
11
11
9
8
7
DOUBLES EVENT
Chen Longcan/Wei Qingguang 
Ilija Lupulesku/Zoran Primorac Yoo Nam-kyu/Ahn Jae-hyung
FINAL
Chen Longcan/Wei Qingguang Ilija Lupulesku/Zoran Primorac
3RD PLACE GAME Yoo Nam-kyu/Ahn Jae-hyung Kim Wan/Kim Ki-taek
1/2 FINALS Chen Longcan/Wei Qingguang Yoo Nam-kyu/Ahn Jae-hyung Ilija Lupulesku/Zoran Primorac Kim Wan/Kim Ki-taek
5TH PLACE GAME Jiang Jialiang/Xu Zengcai Andrzej Grubba/Leszek Kucharski
7TH PLACE GAME Jörgen Persson/Erik Lindh Jan-Ove Waldner/Mikael Appelgren
5-8TH PLACE Andrzej Grubba/Leszek Kucharski Jörgen Persson/Erik Lindh Jiang Jialiang/Xu Zengcai Jan-Ove Waldner/Mikael Appelgren
1/4 FINALS Chen Longcan/Wei Qingguang Andrzej Grubba/Leszek Kucharski Yoo Nam-kyu/Ahn Jae-hyung Jörgen Persson/Erik Lindh Kim Wan/Kim Ki-taek Jiang Jialiang/Xu Zengcai Ilija Lupulesku/Zoran Primorac Jan-Ove Waldner/Mikael Appelgren