Table Tennis - Team China

General
The People's Republic of China are the reigning Olympic champions, a title they have held since the first Olympic Games to feature the team competition in 2008. They secured their spot in Tokyo by winning the 2019 Asian championship title.

The Chinese team defeated Japan 3-1 in the final in Rio to claim their third Olympic gold medal. Xu Xin's individual match defeat to Jun Mizutani in the gold medal match was the only individual loss the Chinese team suffered in Rio. At London in 2012 they overcame Republic of Korea 3-0 in the gold medal match, and on home soil in Beijing in 2008 they defeated Germany by a similar score.

For 60 years, the Chinese team have been unmatched in their dominance of world-level competition. In 2018 they secured their 21st world championship gold medal since 1961 as they defeated Germany in the final in Halmstad, Sweden. It was their ninth consecutive world title since 2001, and the fifth time they had beaten Germany in the final in that period. The last team to interrupt their world championship supremacy was Sweden in 2000, when the Chinese team had to settle for silver.

Unsurprisingly, their record at continental level is also unrivalled. They won 11 Asian championship titles in a row from 1998 to 2019, and they have beaten the Republic of Korea in the final at each of the seven editions of the Asian Games since 1994.