Table Tennis became an Olympic Sport in 1988, in Seoul, South Korea.
Four gold medals were awarded in 1988 as follows ...
Men's Singles - Yoo Nam Kyu (Korea)
Women's Singles - Chen Jing (China)
Men's Doubles - Chen Longcan & Wei Qingguang (China)
Women's Doubles - Yang Young Ja & Hyun Jung Hwa (Korea)
There are hundreds of Olympic gold medal winners alive as of 2013.
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No, the IOC does not pay medal winners.
1920 Games in Antwerp. Japan's first Olympic medal was a silver won by Ichiya Kumagae in men's singles tennis. The following day Ichiya and Seiichiro Kashio won a silver medal in men's doubles tennis.
The gold medal is an award given to the first place winners in Olympic events. The most recent Olympics in China followed in this tradition.
That was tennis at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Ichiya Kumagai won the silver medal.
Japan
they receive a medal
As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Madagascar has ever won an Olympic medal.
Tennis has been an Olympic sport since the games' inception in 1896 at Athens through 1924, and then from 1988 to the present day. For a list of medal winners, click on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) link, below. On that page, click at least one item from each line in the "STEP 1: COMPULSORY FIELDS" section, and then select "Tennis" in the "SPORTS AND EVENTS" box in the "STEP 2: OPTIONAL FIELDS" section, then, optionally, select any other fields in "Step 2". Then, click the red "Search" button to find that list of Olympic medal winners in tennis.
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