# 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships

The 2012 Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships were held at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany from March 25 to April 1, 2012. It was the 51st edition to be contested. 120 men's teams and 92 women's teams were allocated to different divisions according to the final ranking of the previous World Team Table Tennis Championships and the ITTF World Team Rankings. The winner of the first division, called the Championship Division, was crowned as the new champion.
To be eligible to have a team entered for the team events in 2012 Summer Olympics, the ITTF member association must have participated in the tournament. The ranking of the 2012 Championships was taken into account for the Olympic qualification after the final world Olympic qualification tournament, which was held from May 10 to May 13.

## Seeding

The Championship Division comprised 24 teams. The top 18 teams of the Championship Division at the 2010 World Team Championships were guaranteed a spot in the championship division. The top two teams of the Second Division in 2010 automatically advanced to the Championship Division in 2012. The other four spots were announced according to the ITTF World Team Rankings published in February, 2012.
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team |
| Top eighteen in 2010 | China Germany Japan South Korea Hong Kong Russia Belarus Hungary Czech Republic  Austria Sweden Poland North Korea Portugal Spain Singapore Chinese Taipei Croatia | Singapore China Japan Germany South Korea Hong Kong Hungary Netherlands Chinese Taipei  Poland Croatia Romania North Korea Russia Spain United States Ukraine Belarus |
| Top two of the 2nd Division in 2010 | Serbia Slovenia | Sweden Turkey |
| ITTF World Team Rankings (ranking in February) | France (12) Greece (16) Denmark (20) Slovakia (21) | Czech Republic (14) Austria (19) Serbia (20) France (21) |

## Medal summary
### Events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's team details | China Ma Long Zhang Jike Wang Hao Xu Xin Ma Lin | Germany Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Christian Süß | South Korea Joo Se-Hyuk Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Kim Min-Seok Jung Young-Sik |
| Men's team details | China Ma Long Zhang Jike Wang Hao Xu Xin Ma Lin | Germany Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Christian Süß | Japan Jun Mizutani Seiya Kishikawa Koki Niwa Kenji Matsudaira Maharu Yoshimura |
| Women's team details | China Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Guo Yan Li Xiaoxia Guo Yue | Singapore Feng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu | Hong Kong Tie Ya Na Jiang Huajun Lee Ho Ching Ng Wing Nam Yu Kwok See |
| Women's team details | China Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Guo Yan Li Xiaoxia Guo Yue | Singapore Feng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu | South Korea Kim Kyung-Ah Dang Ye-Seo Seok Ha-Jung Yang Ha-Eun Park Mi-Young |

### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Singapore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |

## Results
### Men's team

| Ninth place | Ninth place | Ninth place | Consolation semifinals | Consolation semifinals | Consolation semifinals | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | | Final | Final | Final |
| | | | | | | | | | China | China | 3 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Poland | Poland | 1 | Austria | Austria | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Poland | Poland | 1 | Austria | Austria | 0 | China | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Austria | Austria | 3 | | | | China | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | Poland | Poland | 1 | Austria | Austria | 3 | | | | South Korea | South Korea | 0 | | | | |
| | | | Poland | Poland | 1 | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 1 | South Korea | South Korea | 0 | | | | |
| | | | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 3 | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 1 | | | | | |
| | | | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 3 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 2 | South Korea | South Korea | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 2 | South Korea | South Korea | 3 | | China | China | | | 3 |
| | | | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 3 | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 3 | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 3 | | | | | China | China | | | Germany | Germany | 0 |
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 3 | | | | | | | Japan | Japan | 3 | | | | | | Germany | Germany | 0 |
| Belarus | Belarus | 1 | | | | | | | Japan | Japan | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| Belarus | Belarus | 1 | | | | Singapore | Singapore | 3 | Singapore | Singapore | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Singapore | Singapore | 3 | Singapore | Singapore | 1 | Japan | Japan | 1 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Belarus | Belarus | 1 | | | | Japan | Japan | 1 | | | | | |
| | | | Belarus | Belarus | 3 | Belarus | Belarus | 1 | | | | Germany | Germany | 3 | | | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | Belarus | Belarus | 3 | | | | Sweden | Sweden | 0 | Germany | Germany | 3 | | | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| Eleventh place | Eleventh place | Eleventh place | Portugal | Portugal | 1 | | | | Sweden | Sweden | 0 | | | | | | South Korea | South Korea | X |
| Eleventh place | Eleventh place | Eleventh place | Portugal | Portugal | 1 | Portugal | Portugal | 0 | Germany | Germany | 3 | | | | | | South Korea | South Korea | X |
| Poland | Poland | 1 | | | | Portugal | Portugal | 0 | Germany | Germany | 3 | | | | | | Japan | Japan | X |
| Poland | Poland | 1 | | | | Sweden | 3 | | | | | | | | | | Japan | Japan | X |
| Portugal | Portugal | 3 | | | | Sweden | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 5th–8th classification | 5th–8th classification | 5th–8th classification | Fifth place | Fifth place | Fifth place | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Austria | Austria | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 0 | | | Austria | Austria | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Austria | | | Sweden | Sweden | 1 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Singapore | Singapore | 1 | | | Sweden | Sweden | 1 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Sweden | Sweden | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Sweden | Sweden | 3 | | | Seventh place | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Singapore | Singapore | 2 |

### Women's team

| First Round | First Round | | | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | | Final | Final |
| | | | | China | 3 |
| Poland | 3 | | | Poland | 0 |
| Romania | 2 | | | | | China | 3 | |
| Netherlands | 3 | | | | | Hong Kong | 1 | |
| Austria | 1 | | | Netherlands | 0 | | | |
| | | | | Hong Kong | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | China | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Singapore | 0 |
| | | | | Japan | 2 | | | |
| Hungary | 0 | | | South Korea | 3 | | | |
| South Korea | 3 | | | | | South Korea | 2 | |
| Germany | 3 | | | | | Singapore | 3 | | | Third Place | Third Place |
| North Korea | 1 | | | Germany | 2 | | | | | Hong Kong | X |
| | | | | Singapore | 3 | | | | | South Korea | X |
| Position 9–12 | Position 9–12 | Position 9–12 | Position 9–12 | Position 9–12 | Position 9–12 | Position 5–8 | Position 5–8 | Position 5–8 | Position 5–8 | Position 5–8 | Position 5–8 |
| Romania | 2 | | | Austria | 0 | Poland | 1 | | | Netherlands | 0 |
| Austria | 3 | | | North Korea | 3 | Netherlands | 3 | | | Japan | 3 |
| Hungary | 0 | | | Romania | 1 | Japan | 3 | | | Poland | 2 |
| North Korea | 3 | | | Hungary | 3 | Germany | 0 | | | Germany | 3 |