China completed a second successive clean sweep of Olympic Table Tennis gold medals as Ma Long, Zhang Jike and Wang Hao eased past Republic of Korea in the men’s Team final.Profiting from being on home soil in Beijing four years ago, the Asian nation won every top prize on offer.?
That has proved to not just be a one off, following more domination at the London 2012 Games. Indeed, China has achieved a maximum haul of four golds and two silvers following the efforts of their men today.?
Republic of Korea’s trio of RyuSeungmin, JooSaehyuk and Oh Sangeun had no answer to their opponents and fell to a comprehensive 3-0 defeat. The victory followed up the Team success of China’s women yesterday as well as the Individual golds claimed by Zhang and Li Xiaoxia.?
Germany took the bronze medal as their trio of Timo Boll, DimitrijOvtcharov and Bastian Steger beat Hong Kong 3-1. Ma got China off to the perfect start by cruising past Athens 2004 Singles champion Ryu 3-1.