Olympic Table Tennis 2016: Men's Team Medal Winners, Scores and Bracket Results

Just like the women's tournament, the men's team table tennis event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro featured mostly chalk results, with the top four seeds each reaching the semifinal round. China and Japan won those high-profile matches to set up Wednesday's battle for the gold medal. 

Meanwhile, Germany and South Korea were left to fight for bronze after losing in the semifinals. The Germans have been a constant contender since the team format debuted at the Beijing Games in 2008, reaching the medal round all three times.

Let's check out the results from the final day of competition in table tennis, which will be updated after the gold-medal match. That's followed by a look at the medal count and a recap of the action.

Wednesday's Table Tennis Results

Medal	Matchup	Result/Time (ET)
Bronze	(2) Germany vs. (3) South Korea	3-1 GER
Gold	(1) China vs. (4) Japan	3-1 CHN

Updated Medal Count

Bronze: Germany vs. South Korea

Match	Germany	South Korea	Result
1	Bastian Steger	Jeoung Youngsik	3-2 KOR
2	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Joo Saehyuk	3-2 GER
3	Timo Boll & Bastian Steger	Jeoung Youngsik & Lee Sangsu	3-2 GER
4	Timo Boll	Joo Saehyuk	3-0 GER

Jeoung Youngsik and Bastian Steger started the fixture in thrilling fashion with a highly competitive five-set encounter. Two of the five games went to deuce, including the deciding game, and in the end, it was Jeoung who picked up a hard-fought point for South Korea.

Table Tennis Daily commented on the terrific opening clash:

Not to be outdone, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Joo Saehyuk put together five entertaining games of their own. The German raced out to a 2-0 lead, but Joo fought back to level the match. Ovtcharov bounced back nicely with an 11-6 win in the fifth to ensure the point didn't slip away from Germany, though.

ITTF World passed along a snapshot of the Germany star after the win:

Steger and Timo Boll gave the Germans their first lead of the match with a five-set win in the doubles competition over Jeoung and Lee Sangsu. It was another close battle with three of the five games won by a 11-9 score.

Boll stayed out for Germany with an opportunity to close out the match, and he did exactly that. The 35-year-old veteran scored the fixture's only routine victory, as the former No. 1 player in the world scored a 3-0 win over Joo to secure the bronze medal.

Longtime Irish table tennis star John Murphy provided his thoughts on the hard-fought duel:

All told, the fixture truly could have gone either way. South Korea had chances in both the second and third matches to take control and potentially even win in a sweep. Instead, Germany came up big in the clutch in order to turn the tables in its favor and land on the podium.

Gold: China vs. Japan

Match	China	Japan	Result
1	Ma Long	Koki Niwa	3-0 CHN
2	Xin Xu	Jun Mizutani	3-2 JPN
3	Jike Zhang & Xin Xu	Maharu Yoshimura & Koki Niwa	3-1 CHN
4	Ma Long	Maharu Yoshimura	3-0 CHN

Singles gold medalist Ma Long led China to a team gold, winning two of his nation's three matches during Wednesday's match against Japan. 

The man he beat in those singles finals, Jike Zhang, was right next to him as China has won its second-straight team gold at theh Olympics. 

Long first defeated Japan's Koki Niwa in three games to initially give China the lead before Xin Xu lost to single's bronze medalist Jun Mizutani in five games. 

Xu and Zhang teamed up in the doubles portion of the final to regain China's advantage in four games before Long closed things out against Yoshimura