# Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 276 athletes coming from their respective NPCs. 31 (20 male, 11 female) will be selected by the Bipartite Commission. A further 55 male and 50 female quota places were reserved for continental competition.
The remaining 99 male and 41 female players earn places for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by ITTF that concluded on December 31, 2015.

## Men

The following achieved the necessary ranking by the final date, and have been invited to the Rio 2016 Games.
Class 1
| Section | Places | NOC | Qualified player |
| African Qualifier | 1 | - | |
| Asian Qualifier | 1 | - | |
| American Qualifier | 1 | Brazil | Aloisio Lima |
| European Qualifier | 1 | Great Britain | Robert Davies |
| Oceania Qualifier | 1 | - | |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | Great Britain | Paul Davies |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | France | Jean-François Ducay |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | South Korea | Kiwon Nam |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | Germany | Holger Nikelis |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | South Korea | Young Dae Joo |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | South Korea | Lee Chang-ho |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | Italy | Andrea Borgato |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | Argentina | Fernando Emanuel Eberhardt |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 6(+3)* | Hungary | Endre Major |
| Bipartite Commission | 1 | Hungary | Silvio Keller |
| Total | 12 | | |
* 3 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.
Class 2
| Section | Places | NOC | Qualified player |
| African Qualifier | 1 | - | |
| Asian Qualifier | 1 | South Korea | Soo Yong Cha |
| American Qualifier | 1 | Brazil | Iranildo Conceicao Espindola |
| European Qualifier | 1 | France | Fabien Lamirault |
| Oceania Qualifier | 1 | - | |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Poland | Rafal Czuper |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Slovakia | Jan Riapos |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | France | Stephane Molliens |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Ukraine | Oleksandr Yezyk |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Czech Republic | Jiri Suchanek |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Slovakia | Martin Ludrovsky |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | South Korea | Kyung-Mook Kim |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Serbia | Goran Perlic |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | Slovakia | Ratislav Revucky |
| ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) | 8(+2)* | China | Yan Ming Gao |
| Bipartite Commission | 2 | Brazil Italy | Guilherme Marcio Da Costa Giuseppe Vella |
| Total | 15 | | |
* 2 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.