Sam von Einem capped off a sensational year in 2016 by being named the 2016 Para Athlete of the Year for Table Tennis Australia at the annual Para Table Tennis awards held in Mornington.
The journey for Oceania Table Tennis Players to Tokyo 2020 began in earnest in New Zealand in December with the Smash Down Barriers Oceania Para Training Camp.
Table Tennis Australia is seeking to employ two full-time National Development Coordinators to actively grow participation in the sport of table tennis in Australia.
Nightcliff Primary School in Darwin is developing a sporting exchange programme with a Chinese school that will introduce their students to table tennis through Australia’s participation based Sporting Schools programme, whilst Shanghai students will take up AFL.