China wins Olympic gold medal in men's team table tennisAugust 8, 2012 - 22:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - China completed a clean sweep of table tennis at the Olympics as their men's team took gold by beating South Korea 3-0 in the best-of-five contest. Ma Long and Zhang Jike won their individual ties before the latter and Wang Hao earned victory in the doubles. China have now taken gold in the men's and women's individual events as well as the men's and women's team events. Germany, who won silver in Beijing four years ago, claimed bronze this time around after beating Hong Kong 3-1. The men's team contest brought the curtain down on the table tennis at London 2012 and it only served to enhance China's stranglehold on the world game. Ma was first up against South Korea's Ryu Seungmin and the Chinese player won his tie 3-1 to give his country control of the match. Some of the most eye-catching play came in the next match between Zhang and Joo Saehyuk. The defensive Saehyuk's ability to get the ball back from unlikely positions and Jike's attacking game made for an enthralling contest. Individual gold medallist Zhang won the contrast of styles 3-1 to put China 2-0 up in the match. Zhang and Wang, who was the individual category silver medallist, wrapped up the win as they beat Ryu and Oh Sangeun, BBC News reported. Top stories Armenian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist Artur Davtyan has reached the finals of the World Cup. Gor Manvelyan has denied reports alleging that he has expressed a desire to one day play for the French national team. Roma midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is not considering FC Spartak Moscow as his next haven, according to fresh reports. 10 Armenian lifters will compete in the 2021 World Championships scheduled to be held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |