Latin American Table Tennis Union
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The Latin American Table Tennis Union (LATTU), or Unión Latinoamericana de Tenis de Mesa (ULTM) in Spanish, is one of the table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 continental federations recognized by International Table Tennis Federation
International Table Tennis Federation
The International Table Tennis Federation is the governing body for all national table tennis associations.-Founding history:The ITTF was founded in 1926, the nine founding members being Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales...

 (ITTF). The ULTM is composed of 34 national or regional table tennis associations, working on the development of table tennis in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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Members

List of total 34 member associations: - Federación Argentina de Tenis de Mesa - Aruba Table Tennis Association - Barbados Table Tennis Association - Belize Table Tennis Association - Federación Boliviana de Tenis de Mesa - Confederação Brasileira de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Chilena de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Colombiana de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Costarricense de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Cubana de Tenis de Mesa - Dominica Table Tennis Association - Federación Dominicana de Tenis de Mesa Inc. - Federación Ecuatoriana de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Salvadoreña de Tenis de Mesa - Grenada Table Tennis Association - Federación Nacional de Tenis de Mesa de Guatemala - Guyana Table Tennis Association - Association Haitienne de Tennis de Table - Federación Nacional de Tenis de Mesa de Honduras - Jamaican Table Tennis Association - Federación Mexicana de Tenis de Mesa - Netherlands Antilles Table Tennis Association - Federación Nicaragüense de Tenis de Mesa - Comisión Nacional de Tenis de Mesa de Panama - Federación Paraguaya de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Peruana de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Puertorriqueña de Tenis de Mesa - St. Kitts-Nevis Table Tennis Association - St. Lucia Table Tennis Association - St. Vincent and the Grenadines Table Tennis Association - Suriname Table Tennis Federation - Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association - Federación Uruguaya de Tenis de Mesa - Federación Venezolana de Tenis de Mesa

As members of ITTF but NOT affiliated to ULTM: - Anguilla Table Tennis Association - Cayman Islands Table Tennis Association

Competitions

Continental and regional championships held by ULTM are as follows:
  • Latin American Table Tennis Championships
    Latin American Table Tennis Championships
    The Latin American Table Tennis Championships were first held in 1978 in Mexico City. The second edition has been held in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro. After these two editions the Latin American Championships have been suspended till 1989. Between 1989 and 1992, the tournament were held every year....

  • Latin American Junior and Cadet Championships

  • Central American Championships, CONCATEME Cup
  • Central American Junior and Cadet Championships
  • Central American Minicadet (U-13) Championships

  • Caribbean Senior Championships
  • Caribbean Junior and Cadet Championships
  • Caribbean Mini-Cadet (U-13) Championships

  • South American Championships
  • South American Junior and Cadet Championships
  • South American Mini-Cadet (U-13) Championships


Competitions organized by ULTM members and other organizations:
  • Pan-American Minicadet (U-13) Championships
  • Central American and Caribbean Games
    Central American and Caribbean Games
    The Central American and Caribbean Games are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial , typically in the middle year between Summer Olympics...

  • Central American Games
    Central American Games
    The Central American Games are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial , typically in the middle year between Summer Olympics. The Games are for countries in Central America.-Editions:- References :*...

  • South American Games (ODESUR Games)
    South American Games
    The South American Games , formerly the Southern Cross Games are a regional multi-sport event held between nations from South America, organized by the South American Sports Organization .The first...

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