Oldest player to win an Olympic table tennis match
- Who
- Ni Xia Lian
- What
- 61:23 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- France (Paris)
- When
- 27 July 2024
The oldest player to win an Olympic table tennis match is Ni Xia Lian (Luxembourg, b. China 4 July 1963), aged 61 years 23 days in Paris, France, on 27 July 2024.
Ni Xia Lian defeated 31-year-old Sibel Altinkaya by 4 games to 2 in the women’s singles Round of 64 at the Paris Olympics. A double world champion from 1983, while still representing China, Ni Xia Lian was competing at her sixth Games. She fell in the next round to world No.1 Sun Yingsha.