Table Tennis was introduced to the Olympics in 1988. Gold medals were won by:
Men's Singles: Yoo Nam-Kyu, South Korea
Men's Doubles: Chen Longcan and Wei Qingguang, China
Women's Singles: Chen Jing, China
Women's Doubles: Hyun Jung-Hwa and Yang Young-Ja, South Korea
It was in 1988 - in Seoul, South Korea - that table tennis first joined the Olympics and became an Olympic sport.
Women were first allowed to compete in tennis at the 1900 Games in Paris.
Tennis. The 1988 Games were the first Games that tennis was a medal sport since the 1924 Games in Paris.
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Events competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics: Athletics (Track and Field) Cycling Fencing Gymnastics Shooting Swimming Tennis Weightlifting Wrestling
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Women first participated at the 1900 Games in Paris in tennis, golf, and croquet. The first woman Olympic champion was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in ladies singles tennis.
We don't know who was the first winner of the Olympic games. The Greeks start to record the Olympics in 776 B.C. but the games took place from 1000 B.C. So the first recorded winner was Κόροιβος (Coroebus) a baker from Elis an area in northen-western Greece, very near to Olympia.
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1896 Games in Athens, the first of the modern Olympics. The winner was Spyros Louis of Greece.
That was the 1900 Games in Paris where women competed in golf, tennis, and croquet.
The winner of the 2008 Olympic Games Men's Singles Gold Medal was Ma Lin of China. The winner of the 2008 Olympic Games Women's Singles Gold Medal was Zhang Yining of China. The winner of the 2008 World Team Championships for men was China. The winner of the 2008 World Team Championships for women was China. The winner of the 2008 World Cup Men's Singles title was Wang Hao of China.