With the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2024 (WTTC) readied to be held in Busan following year, the Korea Table Tennis Association (KTTA) has actually tipped up to home plate by positioning a solid focus on guaranteeing that it satisfies the highest possible criteria of organisation, competitors as well as justice. As such, one essential facet of attaining this objective as host is to give high quality training for its umpires as well as umpires to supervise the suits.
Last week, with the assistance of the ITTF Umpires as well as Referees Committee (URC), KTTA arranged a workshop for Korea’s worldwide umpires to boost the high quality as well as uniformity of officiating in the sporting activity. It was the very first time in 4 years that this workshop was held because of the previous constraints of the Covid -19 pandemic, as well as saw a complete of 113 individuals.
The workshop consisted of individual sharing sessions by present umpires, a discussion on Korea’s long-term umpire system that was carried out by ITTF URC participant Young Sam Ma, along with the policies as well as guidelines on Para Table Tennis as well as also an evaluation on sporting activities principles, to name a few subjects. KTTA Vice President Kim Taek-Su additionally revealed his complete assistance for the well-being as well as working problems of the umpires, offering confidence on high quality lodgings as well as enhancements in allocations throughout the WTTC following year.
Capacity- constructing programs such as this workshop stands for simply an instance of just how organizing a marquee occasion can assist boost the criteria as well as high quality of the host nation’s sporting activity, while enhancing passion degrees in it. With this year’s WTTC to be held in Durban from 20 to 28 May, we expect bringing table tennis to better elevations both in the host nation as well as all over the world.
