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Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (; born 22 June 1996, in
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) is a Brazilian
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player and considered the greatest player from the American continent in the history of the sport. In January 2022, he was ranked No. 3 in the world, becoming the highest-ranked
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player to date. Hugo Calderano reaches the best ranking of his career: 3rd in the world in table tennis
/ref> At the 2024 Olympics, he became the first table tennis player from the Americas to reach an Olympic semi-final.Hugo Calderano volta a ser 3º do ranking mundial, melhor posição de um mesatenista das Américas
/ref> Calderano is the first-ever player from Latin America to reach the Top 10 of the ITTF World Rankings. He has placed in the top three in many major competitions, including the
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, the Table Tennis World Cup, the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, the WTT Champions and the Grand Smash, in addition to placing fourth in the
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. He notably defeated China's
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twice: in the quarterfinals of the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, and in the 2024 WTT Champions.Hugo Calderano vence bicampeão mundial e avança à final do WTT Champions em Incheon
/ref> He also defeated China's Liang Jingkun in the quarterfinals of the 2024 WTT Champions Chongqing.Após bater Liang Jingkun, Hugo Calderano se despede do WTT Champions Chongqing na semifinal contra Fan Zhendong
/ref> In the 2025 World Cup, held in
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, China, he defeated the three best ranked players at the time; the world No. 3 Tomokazu Harimoto in the quarterfinal, the world No. 2
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in the semifinal and the world No. 1 Lin Shidong in the final.


Early life

Born in Rio de Janeiro, he started playing table tennis at the age of eight. Since his mother, father and grandfather were physical education teachers, the boy was encouraged to play sports from an early age. From the age of 10 to 12, he was a member of the Rio volleyball team and was pre-school state champion in the long jump.Sobre o Hugo
/ref>Olimpíadas: conheça Hugo Calderano, o brasileiro que fez história no tênis de mesa
/ref> At the age of 14, Calderano left Rio de Janeiro, and the Laranjeiras club, home of Fluminense, where he trained, for
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, in São Paulo, to wear the uniform of the Brazilian table tennis team for the first time. In 2010, at the age of 14, he was South American and Latin American Children's Champion. In 2011, at the age of 15, he was Brazilian Youth Champion, Latin American Children's Champion, in Peru, individually and in teams; and Champion of the Argentine Open Youth in individual, team and doubles. In 2012, at the age of 16, he won an individual bronze medal at the World Cadet Challenge in Puerto Rico; he was South American Youth Champion, in individual, teams and doubles; and champion in youth open competitions in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Poland. In 2013, at the age of 17, he was the youngest table tennis player to win a stage of the World Tour and the first to win stages of the Youth and Adult World Tour in the same year. He won an individual silver medal at the Polish Youth Open, was Champion of the Brazilian Open Adult in individual, and Champion of the Brazilian Open Youth in individual and team.


International career


2014–2016

In 2014, at the age of 18, he had his first Olympic experience, obtaining bronze at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. He was also a silver medalist in the ITTF Grand Finals under-21 tournament, Japan Open under-21 Champion, Brazilian Adult Singles Champion and Latin American Adult Champion. From 2014 to 2021, Hugo played for the Ochsenhausen team, in the first division of the German Bundesliga. In 2015, he won two gold medals at the
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, in the
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and
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events. He was also a Latin American individual and team champion, and a silver medalist in the Qatar Open doubles tournament. He participated in the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, losing in the 2nd round. In 2016, Calderano was Latin American Champion in individual and team competitions; Champion of the Latin American Table Tennis Cup, in Guatemala; Kuwait Open under-21 champion; Austrian Open singles silver medal and Swedish Open doubles tournament champion. In October 2016, Calderano, 31st in the world rankings, lost in the round of 16 of the World Cup, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 4–0 (11/8, 11/5, 11/6 and 11/7) for the Chinese Xu Xin, third in the classification. It was the second most important event of the season, behind only the Olympics.


2016 Summer Olympics

Calderano participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, where he reached the
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, a feat that only Hugo Hoyama, a Brazilian legend in the sport, had achieved for Brazil, in Atlanta-1996. Calderano thus finished 9th in the competition.


2017–2023

Calderano entered the table tennis world top 20 in January 2017. When he was number 25 in the world rankings, he participated in the
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, losing in the 3rd round to the Chinese Xu Xin, 3rd in the world, by 4 to 1 (partials of 12/10, 7/11, 11/6, 11/3 and 11/4). At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships held in Cartagena, he obtained two gold medals in singles and team. This year, he was also a singles and doubles bronze medalist at the Czech Republic Open; Singles and doubles champion at the Brazilian Open, and silver medalist in the doubles tournament at the Hungarian Open. At the
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, Calderano reached the quarterfinals playing with Gustavo Tsuboi and Eric Jouti.Em batalha de quase 3h, Brasil luta, mas perde da Alemanha e está fora do Mundial
/ref> At the 2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal. Calderano entered the table tennis world top 10 in July 2018. In December 2018, Calderano won a historic bronze medal at the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. In the semi-final, a few hours after beating the Chinese
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, number 1 in the world and voted the best player of the season, Calderano was defeated by the Japanese Tomokazu Harimoto, fifth in the world rankings, 4–0 (7/11, 8/11 , 8/11 and 5/11). The Japanese phenomenon, just 15 years old, played his quarter-final match a day earlier. Calderano had less than five hours to recover from an extremely exhausting duel against the best in the world. Calderano started the year ranked 17th in the world, and arrived at this tournament sixth in the rankings.Calderano bate número 1 do mundo, mas cai para fenômeno japonês e é bronze no Grand Finals
/ref> Other important results for Calderano in 2018 were the individual silver medal at the Qatar Open, the individual bronze medal at the Hungarian Open, runner-up in the 2017/18 Bundesliga, and the title of Brazilian adult champion. At the 2019 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming two-time champion of the tournament. At the
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, Calderano won gold in singles (becoming two-time champion of the competition) defeating the Chinese, naturalized Dominican, Jiaji Wu in the final, in addition to obtaining gold in doubles, and bronze in
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. At the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the 4th round (round of 16), where he faced Chinese Ma Long, two-time world champion and Olympic champion, and was defeated by 4 sets to 1, partial 8/11, 11/8, 11/1, 11/3 and 11/8. Other important results for Calderano in 2019 were the individual bronze medal at the Austrian Open, the individual bronze medal at the Czech Republic Open, the 2018/19 Bundesliga title and the 2018/19 German Cup title. At the 2020 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming three-time champion of the tournament. In 2020, he was also runner-up in the 2019/20 Bundesliga and in the 2019/20 German Cup.


2021

In 2021, Calderano announced he was leaving the German Bundesliga and switching to the Russian Champion's league to focus more on international competition. However, Calderano will continue to live in Germany and train in the same training center; he will compete in a different league. Calderano entered World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha. After receiving a minor scare in the first round to co-patriot Gustavo Tsuboi, Calderano comfortably beat An Jaehyun in the round of 16. However, he lost to Simon Gauzy in the quarterfinals of the WTT Contender Event. In the WTT Star Contender event, he bowed out in the round of 16 to Darko Jorgic after missing his own serve at deuce in the fifth game. Although it briefly looked like Lin Yun-Ju had passed Calderano for the Olympic fourth seed following the results of WTT Doha, in April ITTF amended the seeding system so that Calderano was once again slated to be the fourth seed. In an interview with JAPAN Forward in July, Calderano named mentality as one of his strong suits and stated that he used to work with a mental coach until the coach died. Calderano made up for his loss in the WTT Contender Doha and WTT Star Contender Doha earlier in March by winning the title at WTT Star Contender Doha in September. He defeated Liam Pitchford and Darko Jorgic in the semifinal and final, respectively, on his way to victory. In September 2021, Calderano entered the table tennis world top 5 for the first time. At the 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became two-time Pan American champion in singles and in the team category. At the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the quarter-finals, where he faced the Chinese Liang Jingkun, and went on to open 3 sets to 0, but ended up eliminated 4–3. With this, he achieved the best result in Brazil's history in this tournament, finishing in 5th placeHugo Calderano sofre virada incrível e perde para chinês nas quartas de final do Mundial
/ref> In December 2021, Calderano obtained another historic medal, obtaining bronze at the WTT Cup Finals (a tournament that ended this year's season and featured the 16 best table tennis players of the season, in Singapore. The event replaced the ITTF Grand Finals this year when the international circuit underwent some changes). Calderano ended 2021 as the best season of his career, ranked number four in the world.Calderano leva bronze no WTT Cup Finals e encerra 2021 como melhor temporada da carreira
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2020 Olympic Games

In February 2021, Calderano was already three years among the top ten players in the world in table tennis and was ranked sixth in the world rankings. Calderano qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as seed No.4, being the best non-Asian in the world ranking. By beating the South Korean Jang Woojin, number 12 in the ranking, by 4 sets to 3, he became the first Brazilian and Latin American to reach the quarter-finals of table tennis in the Olympic Games. His Olympic Challenge ended in the quarterfinals with a 2:4 defeat against Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the eventual bronze medallist, finishing in 5th place.


2022–24

In November 2022, at the 2022 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became three-time Pan American champion in singles and in the team category. The table tennis player completed seven years undefeated in this continental competition. In March 2023, Calderano competed in the Singapore Grand Smash, a tournament that features the participation of all the top 20 in the world. He defeated world No. 20 Yukiya Uda in the 2nd round; Darko Jorgic, world No. 10, in the round of 16; Quadri Aruna, number 14 in the world, in the quarter-finals, and only lost to the Chinese Ma Long, number 2 in the world, in the semi-final, ending with a historic bronze.Hugo Calderano é superado por Ma Long nas semifinais e encerra campanha histórica no Grand Smash Singapura com o bronze
/ref> In May 2023, Calderano went to compete in the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships. However, he had not trained for 10 days, after feeling the injury suffered in his previous competition, the WTT Champions Macau. In Macau, in the defeat to Chinese Ma Long, Calderano slipped during a point and felt pain in the hamstring muscle. Due to this, he was eliminated in the 1st round by Puerto Rican Brian Afanador, 74th in the world rankings, by 4 sets to 2, a table tennis player with whom Calderano had already played four other times, always with the Brazilian winning. In July 2023, Hugo Calderano reached the mark of 250 consecutive weeks in the world table tennis Top20. At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals, where he faced Chinese Fan Zhendong, number two in the world. After starting losing 2 sets to 0, Calderano tied the game at 2 sets to 2. In the last set, the Chinese managed to win 11 to 7, going to the final and becoming champion of the tournament. In September 2023, at the 2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became four-time champion in singles and in the team category, remaining undefeated in this continental competition.Hugo Calderano lidera Brasil na conquista da vaga olímpica por equipes
/ref> In November 2023, participating in the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Calderano made history by becoming the first three-time consecutive table tennis champion at the Pan American Games. He also won gold in Team and silver in Doubles.Pan 2023: Hugo Calderano é ouro e conquista tricampeonato
/ref> Other important results for Calderano in 2023 were: Runner-up in the 2022/23 T-League, WTT Contender Doha individual champion, WTT Contender Durban individual champion, and individual WTT Contender Muscat Champion. In January 2024, he was runner-up in the WTT Star Contender Goa, in India, a tournament that can be equated to a tennis
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. Calderano beat the German Dimitrij Ovtcharov, 12th in the world rankings, in the semi-final, and had previously beaten the South Korean Lim Jonghoon (18th) and the Swedish Anton Källberg (17th). At the WTT Champions (a tournament that brings together the 32 best in the world in table tennis) held in the city of Incheon, held at the end of March 2024, Calderano carried out one of the greatest campaigns of his life. In the quarter-finals, he eliminated Frenchman Felix Lebrun, 5th best in the world, who had taken the WTT Star Contender title from him in January. In the semi-final, he beat the current two-time world champion in singles, silver medalist in Tokyo 2020 and number two in the world rankings, the Chinese
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, by 4 sets to 2, reaching the final against another Chinese, Liang Jingkun, number 3 in the world.Hugo Calderano derrota Fan Zhendong e vai à final do WTT de Incheon
/ref> Calderano finished runner-up in the tournament. He was the only non-Chinese to reach the semi-finals of this tournament, including the men's and women's. At the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup, now in a new format, Calderano started by winning his 2 games in the group stage by 4 sets to 0. In the round of 16, however, he was drawn to play with the world n.1, the Chinese
Wang Chuqin Wang Chuqin (; , pronounced ; born 11 May 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion. He is currently ranked world No.2 in men's singles. Wang is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in mixed doub ...
. Calderano played a high-level game with the Chinese, where the Brazilian came out ahead, winning by 2 sets to 1. The leader of the ranking won the next 2 sets, taking the advantage by 3 sets to 2. In the sixth set, very disputed, Chuqin managed to win in a tight 13/11, reaching the quarter-finals. Playing in the biggest table tennis tournament in Brazil, the WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro, in May 2024, Calderano became champion for the first time, losing just 1 set in the entire competition.Hugo Calderano é campeão do WTT Rio de Janeiro
/ref> Participating in the WTT Champions in Chongqing, China, Calderano had another excellent campaign by reaching the semifinals of the tournament, eliminating the Olympic medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the 2nd round and defeating the Chinese Liang Jingkun, number three in the world at the moment, for the first time in his career, in the quarter-finals. Having to play the quarterfinals and semifinals on the same day, he ended up being eliminated by fellow Chinese
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. In this tournament, Calderano was the only non-Chinese or non-Chinese descendant to reach the semifinals, both in the men's and women's singles draws. At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2024, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals after defeating Swede
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, who was runner-up in the 2019 World Championships. He then defeated Cho Dae-seong, 25th in the world, and in the final,
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, 5th in the world (in both games, without losing sets) to obtain a Star Contender trophy for the second time, being one of the biggest titles in his career.É CAMPEÃO! Hugo Calderano vence Felix Lebrun por 4 sets a 0 e conquista o WTT Star Contender Ljubljana
/ref> After the title in Slovenia, Calderano secured the number 4 seed position at the Paris Olympics, and decided not to compete in the last two stages of the WTT Circuit, in Lagos, Nigeria, and Tunis, Tunisia, to rest. In July 2024, he completed 300 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the table tennis world rankings.


2024 Olympic Games

At the
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, in the Men's singles, in the first round, he beat Cuban Andy Pereira (57th in the ITTF ranking) 4–0 (11/8, 11/7, 11/9, 11/4). In the second round, he eliminated Spaniard Álvaro Robles (34th in the ITTF ranking) 4–2 (7/11, 13/11, 11/9, 8/11, 11/3, 11/5). In the round of 16 he faced Frenchman
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(16th in the ITTF ranking) eliminating him 4–1 (3/11, 11/5, 11/6, 11/3, 11/8). In the quarterfinals, he eliminated South Korean Jang Woo-jin (13th in the ITTF rankings) 4–0 (11/4, 11/7, 11/5, 11/6), becoming the first table tennis player from the
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to reach an Olympic semifinal, beating the previous record, achieved by himself at the 2020 Olympics. In the semifinals, Calderano played against Swede
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, 26th in the world but who was runner-up in the 2021 World Championship, and who eliminated Chinese world No. 1
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in the 2nd round.Hugo Calderano atropela sul-coreano e garante inédita semifinal no tênis de mesa
/ref> In a very close match against the surprise of the competition, Calderano ended up losing 4 sets to 2 (10/12, 14/16, 11/7, 7/11, 12/10, 8/11) and went on to fight for the bronze against
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, where he was defeated 4 games to 0. He also participated in the team competition, where Brazil equaled its best ever placing in the Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals.Brasil é eliminado pela França nas quartas do torneio de equipes do tênis de mesa
/ref> After his performance at the Olympics in France, Hugo Calderano returned to 3rd place in the world ranking. He had 4,070 points, behind only the Chinese
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, with 7,925 points, and
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, with 5,523.


2024-present

In October 2024, Calderano became five-time Pan American Table Tennis Championships champion.Calderano é pentacampeão no Pan-Americano; Giulia e Laura conquistam ouro inédito
/ref> At the 2025 Table Tennis World Cup, he reached the quarterfinals, where he faced the Japanese Tomokazu Harimoto, third in the world rankings. Calderano defeated Harimoto 4 sets to 1, reaching the World Cup semi-finals for the first time, where he played against
Wang Chuqin Wang Chuqin (; , pronounced ; born 11 May 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion. He is currently ranked world No.2 in men's singles. Wang is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in mixed doub ...
, second in the world rankings. After being down 3 sets to 1, Calderano turned the tables on the Chinese and won 4 sets to 3, reaching the final. He is the first table tennis player from outside Asia and Europe to reach the final. In the final, Calderano faced the world number 1, Chinese Lin Shidong. Calderano gave the world ranking leader no chance, winning the final 4 sets to 1 and obtaining the biggest title of his career. Right after the World Cup, Calderano reached the rank of world number 3 for the third time in his career. At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, he won 4 matches, reaching the quarter-finals of the competition, where he faced An Jae-hyun, world No. 17, who eliminated Frenchman Félix Lebrun, world No. 6, 4-3 in the round of 16. Calderano won 4 sets to 1, becoming the first Latin American player to reach the World Championship semi-finals, thus guaranteeing a medal. In the semi-finals, he beaten Chinese Liang Jingkun, world No. 5, 4-3, becoming the first male player from outside Asia and Europe to reach the World Championship final.


Clubs

* Fluminense (2004-2010) * São Caetano do Sul (2010–2014) *
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(2014–2021) * Gazprom Fakel Orenburg (2021–2022) * Kinoshita (2022) * TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (2023–)


Singles titles


Best results by type of tournament


Singles

In January 2022, Calderano peaked at number 3 in the world single rankings. * Pan American Table Tennis Championships: Champion (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) *
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: Champion (2015, 2019, 2023) *WTT Contender: Champion (Tunis 2022, Durban 2023, Doha 2023, Muscat 2023, Rio 2024).É campeão! Hugo Calderano conquista WTT Contender de Doha e leva segundo título em sequência
/ref> *WTT Star Contender: Champion (Doha 2021, Ljubljana 2024). *WTT Champions: Runner-up (Incheon 2024) *Grand Smash: Bronze medal (Singapore 2023) * ITTF World Tour Grand Finals: Bronze medal (Incheon 2018) * WTT Cup Finals: Bronze medal (Singapore 2021) * Table Tennis World Cup: Champion (Macau 2025) *
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: Runner-up (Doha 2025) *
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: Semifinals (Paris 2024)


Doubles

In 2017, the duo Calderano / Tsuboi was the 3rd best in the world rankings, behind only the Japanese Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima and the Chinese Xu Xin and Zhang Jike.Aberto do Brasil: Calderano e Tsuboi chegam a mais uma final de duplas em Circuito Mundial
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: Champion (2019) *Super series: Silver (Qatar Open 2015) Mundial 2015: Após 61 anos, Cazuo e Thiago igualam melhor resultado brasileiro na história
/ref> *Hungarian Open 2016: Silver *Swedish Open 2017: Gold *Rio de Janeiro Open 2017: Gold *
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: Round of 16 (Suzhou 2015, Dusseldorf 2017)


Team

From April 2021 to June 2023, the Brazil team was the 6th best in the world. * Pan American Table Tennis Championships: Champion (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023) *
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: Champion (2015, 2023) * Table Tennis World Cup: Quarterfinals (Dubai 2015, London 2018, Tokyo 2019) *
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: Quarterfinals ( Halmstad 2018) *
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: Quarterfinals (
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, Paris 2024) Tênis de mesa por equipes: Brasil perde para Coréia do Sul nas quartas de final na Olimpíada de Tóquio
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Hugo Calderano
at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calderano, Hugo 1996 births Living people Brazilian male table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players for Brazil Table tennis players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) Pan American Games gold medalists in table tennis Pan American Games silver medalists in table tennis Pan American Games bronze medalists in table tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Table tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Expatriate sportspeople in Germany World Table Tennis Championships medalists