BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Following are the key figures for Olympic table tennis competitions to start Wednesday at the Peking University Gymnasium and to run through Aug. 23:

26,900 - Square meters of floor surface available at Peking University Gymnasium, the Olympic table tennis facility.

7,557 - Spectator capacity at the Peking University Gymnasium.

1988 - Year in which table tennis was introduced as an Olympic sport.

192 - Height in cm of Wang Liqin of China, the tallest table tennis competitor at Beijing 2008.

128 - Athletes competing in the singles tournaments, of 64 men and 64 women.

46 - Age of He Zhi Wen representing Spain, the oldest participant in the Olympic table tennis competition.

32 - 16 women's and 16 men's team in the team events, which debut in Olympics at Beijing 2008.

16 - Olympic table tennis gold medals won by China out of a possible 20 in previous Games.

15 - Age of Marcelo Aguirre of Paraguay, the youngest competitor in the table tennis tournament.

10 - Bronze medals won by South Korea in all Olympic table tennis competitions.

9 - Gold medals won by China out of a possible 10 in all women's Olympic competitions.

8 - Maximum number of tables being played on simultaneously during the Olympic tournament.

7 - Gold medals won by China out of a possible 10 in all Men's Olympic competitions.

6 - Jean-Michel Saive of Belgium, Jorgen Persson of Sweden and Zoran Primorac of Croatia will make record sixth appearance in men's singles tournament.

5 - China have won all five Olympic Gold medals in the women's singles competition.

4 - China have won four out of a possible five silver medals in Olympic women's singles.

3 - In the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, China won all medals in the women's singles.

2 - Deng Yaping of China is the only athlete with two Gold medals in the women's singles (1992, 1996).

1 - Olympic gold medal in men's singles won by a European (Jan-Ove Waldner of Sweden, 1992).

0 - Players winning more than one men's singles Olympic gold. Ryu Seung Min of South Korea could achieve this in Beijing 2008.

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