[더뉴스=김소리 기자] Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) announced that Busan will be the host city of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships at the general meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF, President Petra Soling) held at the Hilton Hotel in Houston, USA on the 25th at 4:00 am (local time, 1:00 pm local time). said it was
| Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) announced that Busan will be the host city of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships at the general meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF, President Petra Soling) held at the Hilton Hotel in Houston, USA on the 25th at 4:00 am (local time, 1:00 pm local time). done <사진 부산시> |
At the general meeting, when the International Table Tennis Federation President Thomas Weikert announced Busan and Korea as the venues for the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships, IOC member Yoo Seung-min, the IOC member, Lee Byung-jin, the mayor of Busan City, and Executive Secretary Jeong Hyun-sook cheered.
This is the fruit of the active bid activities of Busan City and the Korea Table Tennis Association. Among the five countries that challenged the bid, Portugal and Sweden announced their intention to withdraw immediately before the online due diligence, and India announced its intention to withdraw from the competition. They declared their support, and as a result of a close battle with Argentina, Busan City was finally confirmed with an overwhelming 97 to 46 vote through member states’ votes.
After submitting a letter of intent to bid to the International Table Tennis Federation in May to host the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships, Busan City started a feasibility study research service in July and submitted a bid application to the International Table Tennis Federation. In response to the online due diligence of the Table Tennis Federation and the online bidding PT for selection of the final candidate site in November, it actively engaged with the Korea Table Tennis Association. In addition, in order to secure national funding, the International Event Hosting Plan was submitted to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in October to be reviewed for hosting an international competition.
In particular, to this general meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation, which decides the venue of the tournament, a kindergarten group consisting of Busan City, the Korea Table Tennis Association, and the Busan Table Tennis Association was dispatched from the 22nd, and a promotional video for the promotion of the Busan invitation was screened through interviews with the International Table Tennis Federation executives and delegations from each country. , and distribution of brochures and souvenirs in the hotel (Busan PR zone) and stadium (George Brown Convention Center), etc.
As the venue was selected as Busan, the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships will be held at BEXCO, Busan for 10 days from May 24 to June 2, 2024, with over 2,000 players and executives from 100 countries participating. Is expected.
The World Table Tennis Championships is a competition comparable to the World Cup, in which 2,000 officials and players from 100 countries participate, the most in a single event. A team event will be held, and the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships will be held as a men’s and women’s team event.
According to the city of Busan, the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships not only draws attention as a prelude to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, but also maximizes the brand image of Busan with the participation of a large number of world-class players, and invites domestic and foreign table tennis enthusiasts to visit Busan. ‧Tourism and shopping are expected to greatly contribute to the revitalization of the local economy that has suffered from COVID-19.
In addition, the city of Busan is expected to create a new table tennis boom by hosting Korea’s first World Table Tennis Championships in 2024, which is expected to be an opportunity to develop not only Korean table tennis but also world table tennis. , is expected to have a significant impact on the vitalization of life and sports.
When Busan Mayor Park Hyung-jun heard the news that the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan was confirmed by the induction team, he said, “After the 2020 Busan World Table Tennis Championships were canceled one month before being held due to Corona 19, Busan City will host the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships again. This is a valuable result of the love and passion of 3.4 million Busan citizens for table tennis. I can’t hide the overwhelming emotion of today.”
