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Doubles, Women

Date	14 – 20 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Gymnastirio Galatsiou, Galatsi
Participants	68 from 26 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament. Top 8 seeds advanced to round four. Seeds 9-16 advanced to round three.

Chinese women had not lost a doubles championship at the Olympics or World Championships since the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and the 1987 Worlds. Wang Nan had won the 2000 Olympics with partner Li Ju, and also won the 1999 and 2001 Worlds with her. But in 2003 Wang joined up with a new partner, Zhang Yining, and they again won the World title – they were nicknamed table tennis’s “Dream Team.” The final came down to Wang and Zhang against Koreans Suk En-Mi and Lee Eun-Sil, but it was not close, the Chinese winning in four easy games.

Pos	Competitors	NOC
1	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	Gold
	Wang Nan • Zhang Yining
2	Republic of Korea 1	KOR	Silver
	Lee Eun-Sil • Seok Eun-Mi
3	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	Bronze
	Guo Yue • Niu Jianfeng
4	Republic of Korea 2	KOR
	Kim Bok-Rae • Kim Gyeong-A
=5	Japan	JPN
	Ai Fujinuma • Aya Umemura
=5	Hong Kong, China 2	HKG
	Song Ah Sim • Tie Ya Na
=5	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK
	Kim Hyang-Mi • Kim Hyon-Hui
=5	Croatia	CRO
	Tamara Boroš • Cornelia Vajda-Molnar
=9	Chinese Taipei	TPE
	Huang Yi-Hua • Lu Yun-Feng
=9	Hong Kong, China 1	HKG
	Lau Sui Fei • Lin Ling
=9	Russian Federation 2	RUS
	Svetlana Ganina • Irina Palina
=9	Italy	ITA
	Nikoleta Stefanova • Wenling Tan Monfardini
=9	Singapore 1	SGP
	Sharon Tan • Zhang Xueling
=9	New Zealand	NZL
	Chunli Li • Karen Li
=9	Hungary	HUN
	Csilla Bátorfi • Krisztina Tóth
=9	Singapore 2	SGP
	Jing Jun Hong • Li Jia Wei
=17	Belarus	BLR
	Tatsiana Lohatskaya • Veranika Paulovich
=17	Russian Federation 1	RUS
	Oksana Kushch-Fadeyeva • Galina Melnik
=17	Canada	CAN
	Petra Cada • Marie-Christine Roussy
=17	Belarus	BLR
	Tatsiana Kostromina • Viktoryia Paulovich
=17	Romania	ROU
	Mihaela Șteff • Adriana Zamfir
=17	Germany	GER
	Nicole Struse • Elke Wosik
=17	Czech Republic	CZE
	Renáta Štrbíková • Alena Vachovcová
=17	United States 2	USA
	Tawny Banh • Jun Gao
=25	Tunisia	TUN
	Nesrine Ben Kahia • Olfa Guenni
=25	Nigeria 1	NGR
	Edem Offiong • Cecilia Otu
=25	Greece	GRE
	Maria Moirou • Archontoula Volakaki
=25	Nigeria 2	NGR
	Bose Kaffo • Funke Oshonaike
=25	United States 1	USA
	Whitney Ping • Jasna Reed
=25	Australia	AUS
	Jian-Fang Lay • Miao Miao
=25	Brazil	BRA
	Mariany Nonaka • Lígia da Silva
=25	Venezuela	VEN
	Luisana Pérez • Fabiola Ramos
=33	Algeria	ALG
	Asma Menaifi • Souad Nechab
=33	Chile	CHI
	Berta Rodríguez • María Paulina Vega

Round One

Date	14 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to round two.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 11:00-11:45	Tunisia	TUN	4 – 2	Algeria	ALG
Match #2	14 Aug 11:00-11:45	Venezuela	VEN	4 – 3	Chile	CHI

Round Two

Date	15 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to round three.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 11:00-11:45	Chinese Taipei	TPE	4 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #2	15 Aug 11:00-11:45	Russian Federation 1	RUS	4 – 3	Nigeria 1	NGR
Match #3	15 Aug 11:00-11:45	Canada	CAN	4 – 1	Greece	GRE
Match #4	15 Aug 11:00-11:45	Italy	ITA	4 – 3	Nigeria 2	NGR
Match #5	15 Aug 11:45-12:30	Singapore 1	SGP	4 – 0	United States 1	USA
Match #6	15 Aug 11:45-12:30	New Zealand	NZL	4 – 2	Australia	AUS
Match #7	15 Aug 11:45-12:30	Czech Republic	CZE	4 – 2	Brazil	BRA
Match #8	15 Aug 11:45-12:30	United States 2	USA	4 – 0	Venezuela	VEN

Round Three

Date	16 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to round four.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	16 Aug 13:00-14:00	Chinese Taipei	TPE	4 – 3	Belarus	BLR
Match #2	16 Aug 13:00-14:00	Hong Kong, China 1	HKG	4 – 2	Russian Federation 1	RUS
Match #3	16 Aug 13:00-14:00	Russian Federation 2	RUS	4 – 0	Canada	CAN
Match #4	16 Aug 13:00-14:00	Italy	ITA	4 – 2	Belarus	BLR
Match #5	16 Aug 14:00-15:00	Singapore 1	SGP	4 – 1	Romania	ROU
Match #6	16 Aug 14:00-15:00	New Zealand	NZL	4 – 1	Germany	GER
Match #7	16 Aug 14:00-15:00	Croatia	CRO	4 – 1	Czech Republic	CZE
Match #8	16 Aug 14:00-15:00	Republic of Korea	KOR	4 – 0	United States 2	USA

Round Four

Date	16 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	16 Aug 20:00-21:00	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	4 – 0	Chinese Taipei	TPE
Match #2	16 Aug 20:00-21:00	Japan	JPN	4 – 2	Hong Kong, China 1	HKG
Match #3	16 Aug 20:00-21:00	Hong Kong, China 2	HKG	4 – 0	Russian Federation 2	RUS
Match #4	16 Aug 20:00-21:00	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	4 – 0	Italy	ITA
Match #5	16 Aug 21:00-22:00	Republic of Korea 1	KOR	4 – 0	Singapore 1	SGP
Match #6	16 Aug 21:00-22:00	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK	4 – 2	New Zealand	NZL
Match #7	16 Aug 21:00-22:00	Croatia	CRO	4 – 1	Hungary	HUN
Match #8	16 Aug 21:00-22:00	Republic of Korea 2	KOR	4 – 3	Singapore 2	SGP

Quarter-Finals

Date	18 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	18 Aug 11:00-11:45	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	4 – 2	Japan	JPN
Match #2	18 Aug 11:00-11:45	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	4 – 2	Hong Kong, China 2	HKG
Match #3	18 Aug 12:00-13:00	Republic of Korea 1	KOR	4 – 2	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK
Match #4	18 Aug 12:00-13:00	Republic of Korea 2	KOR	4 – 0	Croatia	CRO

Semi-Finals

Date	19 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the final round match. Runners-up advanced to bronze medal match.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	19 Aug 11:00-11:45	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	4 – 2	People's Republic of China 2	CHN
Match #2	19 Aug 12:00-12:45	Republic of Korea 1	KOR	4 – 0	Republic of Korea 2	KOR

Final Round

Date	20 August 2004

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	20 Aug 14:00-14:45	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	4 – 0	Republic of Korea 1	KOR
Match 3/4	20 Aug 13:00-13:45	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	4 – 3	Republic of Korea 2	KOR