Sharara Re-Elected / Day of Joy for Germany
Canada's Mr. Adham SHARARA was re-elected for further four year term as ITTF President. SHARARA retained his position with an overwhelming majority over Alaor Gaspar Pinto AZEVEDO of Brazil. The Annual General Meeting of the International Table Tennis was held during the third day of competition at the H.I.S. 2009 World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan.

Germany Host of the 2012 World Championships
The 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships will be held in the German city of Dortmund; thus the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) will host another World Championship after the event was staged in Bremen 2006.

The Newly Elected ITTF Executive Committee :
The Executive Committee (EC) of the ITTF was extended from 7 to 9 members, the largest ever elected in the history of ITTF. Under acclamation Nigeria’s retiring ITTF Deputy President Mr. George SEGUN was thanked by President Adham SHARARA for more than a decade of service in the EC; his successor on the EC from the continent of Africa is Mr. Chérif HAJEM of Tunisia. Judit FARAGO of Hungary already left the EC in 2008 to take over the ITTF Competition Department as Director.

The ITTF Executive Committee for the next four years:

President: Adham SHARARA, Canada
Deputy President: YANG Shuan, China
Executive Vice-President: Neil HARWOOD, Australia
Executive Vice-President: Ms. Petra SÖRLING, Sweden
Executive Vice-President: Mr. Thomas WEIKERT, Germany
Executive Vice-President: Mr. Koji KIMURA, Japan
Executive Vice-President: Mr. Chérif HAJEM, Tunisia
Executive Vice-President: Mr. Khalil AL-MOHANNADI, Qatar
Executive Vice-President: Mr. Melecio Eduardo RIVERA, El Salvador

Table Tennis Family Grows – 207 Member Associations The Cayman Islands (new) and Papua New Guinea (reactivated) are the two new member associations of the ITTF. The table tennis governing body consists now of 207 associations and belongs to one of the biggest international federations of the Olympic family.