| Men's singles table tennis at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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| Venue | Riocentro | ||||||||||||
| Date | 6–11 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 70 from 46 nations | ||||||||||||
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Ma Long |
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Zhang Jike |
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Jun Mizutani |
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The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The event took place from 6 August to 11 August 2016 at Riocentro.
All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).
Seeds were based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published in July 2016 with a maximum of 2 players per country. The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round.
The players seeded from 17 to 32 qualified directly to the second round.