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Dear friends,
We have received very good article from ITTF on concluding of World Table Tennis Championship held in Paris from 13-20 May, 2013.
This is for your information.
D.R. Choudhary
Secretary General
Table Tennis Federation of India
ARTICLE FROM ITTF
Dear Friends,
 Thank you all for your assistance making the LIEBHERR 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, France, ITTF's most statistically successful event in history.
Please feel free to share the below statistics with your local media:
- People watching the men's final on CCTV: 36.6 million (3rd highest viewed sporting event this year in China)
- People watching the women's final on CCTV: 50 million (2nd highest viewed sporting event this year in China)
- Hours telecasted on CCTV: 62
- Hours telecasted on Eurosport: 32.5
- ITTF.com was the 2nd most popular Olympic International Federation website, only behind FIFA and ahead of the IOC
- itTV live viewers: 2,239 543
- itTV on demand viewers: 1,797,688
- Spectators through the gates: 64,956
- YouTube Views on WTTC material: 2.65 million
- Minutes watched on WTTC YouTube Videos: 10.25 million
- ITTF's Facebook Impressions: 2.8 million
- People who saw ITTF's WTTC Facebook posts: 1.3 million
- Participating associations: 128 – breaking the record from the 2012 WTTC in Dortmund of 118 associations.
- Associations present at the Annual General Meeting: 155
- Playing participating: 449 Men and 352 Women (801 in total) - short of the record set at the 2012 WTTC in Dortmund.
- Broken record for most WTTC appearances: Jean-Michel Saive (BEL) - 22
- Broken record for most WTTC appearances by association: England – 57
- Matches played: 1407
- Games played: 6642
- Points played: 118,633
- Average score: 11-7 (13.8%)
Review all the action from the 52nd World Table Tennis Championships, by watching the full matches and interviews on demand on ITTF.com/itTV and the 128 videos posted by the ITTF on YouTube.com/ITTFChannel, which includes:
- Full review of the event in ITTF's May Pomg Cast - http://youtu.be/r8AZ2DLzTFE
- Top 10 shots of the tournament
- Highlights from each major match
- Daily review show
- Shot of the day
- Exclusive interviews
- Behind the scenes footage.
As the ITTF always wants to improve, feedback on all promotional and media activities, both positive and negative is welcome.
Kind regards,
Matt
Matthew Pound
Promotion Manager
INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION
Marketing & Asia Pacific Headquarters
a: 352 Tanglin Road, #02-04/05, Singapore 247671
t: +65 6473 8022 | f: +65 6473 8033
e: mpound@ittf.com | w: ITTF.com
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