These are the results of the women's doubles competition, one of two events for female competitors in table tennis

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Medal	Athlete
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Preliminary round

Four pairs took part in a two match elimination in Round 1 to see which would advance into the main draw

winners on left in bold

Nesrine Ben Kahia & Olfa Guenni, TUN	3	-	2	Asma Menaifi & Souad Nechab, ALG
Luisana Perez & Fabiola Ramos, VEN	4	-	3	Berta Rodriguez & Maria Paulina Vega, CHI

First round

August 14

winners on left in bold

I-Hua Huang & Yun-Feng Lu, TPE	4	-	0	Nesrine Ben Kahia & Olfa Guenni, TUN
Oksana Fadeeva & Galina Melnik, RUS	4	-	3	Offiong Edem & Cecilia Otu Offiong, NGR
Petra Cada & Marie-Christine Roussy, CAN	4	-	1	Maria Mirou & Archontoula Volakaki, GRE
Nikoleta Stefanova Nikoleta Stefanova Nikoleta Stefanova is a Bulgarian-born female table tennis player competing for Italy. From 2003 she won several medals in single, double, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships.... & Wenling Tan Monfardini Wenling Tan Monfardini Wenling Tan Monfardini is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Italy. Since 2003 she won several medals in single, double, and team events at the table Tennis European Championships.... , ITA	4	-	3	Bose Kaffo Bose Kaffo Bose Kaffo, born 14 December 1972 in Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria is a Nigerian professional table tennis player who competed at five Olympics from 1992 to 2008....  & Funke Oshonaike, NGR
Paey Fern Tan & Xueling Zhang, SIN	4	-	0	Whitney Ping & Jasna Reed, USA
Chunli Li Chunli Li Chunli Li is a retired female table tennis player for New Zealand. She won a gold, silver and two bronze medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games to cap off her long career. She competed at four Olympic Games for New Zealand.-References:... & Karen Li Karen Li Karen Li is a table tennis player for New Zealand. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal partnering her sister Chunli Li in the women's doubles and a bronze medal in the team event.- References :... , NZL	4	-	2	Jian Fang Lay & Miao Miao Miao Miao Miao Miao is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic Games. Her best Olympic result was the quarter finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney... , AUS
Renata Strbikova & Alena Vachovcova, CZE	4	-	2	Mariany Nonaka & Ligia Silva Santos, BRA
Tawny Banh & Jun Gao, USA	4	-	0	Luisana Perez & Fabiola Ramos, VEN

Second round

August 15

winners on left in bold

players with wiki link below had byes in 1st & 2nd round

I-Hua Huang & Yun-Feng Lu, TPE	4	-	3	Tatyana Logatzkaya & Veronika Pavlovich Veronika Pavlovich Veronika Pavlovich is a female Belarusian table tennis player.She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She competed in doubles in 2004.... , BLR
Sui Fei Lau & Ling Lin, HKG	4	-	2	Oksana Fadeeva & Galina Melnik, RUS
Svetlana Ganina Svetlana Ganina Svetlana Ganina is a Russian table tennis player. Since 2002 she won several medals in double and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships.... & Irina Palina, RUS	4	-	0	Petra Cada & Marie-Christine Roussy, CAN
Nikoleta Stefanova & Wenling Tan Monfardini, ITA	4	-	2	Tatyana Kostromina Tatyana Kostromina Tatyana Kostromina is a female Belarusian table tennis player.She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She also competed in the doubles competition in 2004....  & Viktoria Pavlovich Viktoria Pavlovich Viktoria Pavlovich is a female Belarusian table tennis player. Winner of the women's singles at the 2010 European Championships. She was born in Minsk, and resides there... , BLR
Paey Fern Tan & Xueling Zhang, SIN	4	-	1	Mihaela Steff & Adriana Zamfir, ROM
Chunli Li & Karen Li, NZL	4	-	1	Nicole Struse Nicole Struse Nicole Struse is a table tennis player from Germany, who won several national contests and reached round three with Elke Wosik in the Women's Doubles Competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She represented her native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. 1995 she was...  & Elke Wosik, GER
Tamara Boros & Cornelia Vaida, CRO	4	-	1	Renata Strbikova & Alena Vachovcova, CZE
Bok Rae Kim & Kyung Ah Kim, KOR	4	-	0	Tawny Banh & Jun Gao, USA

Third round

August 16

winners on left in bold

players with wiki link below had byes in first three rounds

Yue Guo Guo Yue Guo Yue is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion.As of August 2011, she is ranked 5th in the ITTF Women's World ranking.... & Jianfeng Niu, CHN	4	-	0	I-Hua Huang & Yun-Feng Lu, TPE
Ai Fujinuma & Aya Umemura, JPN	4	-	2	Sui Fei Lau & Ling Lin, HKG
Ah Sim Song & Yana Tie, HKG	4	-	0	Svetlana Ganina & Irina Palina, RUS
Nan Wang & Yining Zhang, CHN	4	-	0	Nikoleta Stefanova & Wenling Tan Monfardini, ITA
Eun Sil Lee & Eun Mi Seok, KOR	4	-	0	Paey Fern Tan & Xueling Zhang, SIN
Hyang Mi Kim & Hyon Hui Kim, PRK	4	-	2	Chunli Li & Karen Li, NZL
Tamara Boros & Cornelia Vaida, CRO	4	-	1	Csilla Batorfi Csilla Bátorfi Csilla Bátorfi is a Hungarian table tennis player. She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 to 2004. She won several titles in European Championships....  & Krisztina Toth Krisztina Tóth Krisztina Tóth is a female Hungarian table tennis player from Gödöllő , who currently resides in Augsburg, Germany... , HUN
Bok Rae Kim & Kyung Ah Kim, KOR	4	-	3	Jun Hong Jing Jing Jun Hong Jing Junhong was a professional table tennis player for the Singapore national team. Born in Shanghai, she has represented Singapore in sporting events since the 1980s, and has since retired...  & Jia Wei Li, SIN

Quarterfinals

August 18

winners on left in bold

Yue Guo & Jianfeng Niu, CHN	4	-	2	Ai Fujinuma & Aya Umemura, JPN
Nan Wang & Yining Zhang, CHN	4	-	2	Ah Sim Song & Yana Tie, HKG
Eun Sil Lee & Eun Mi Seok, KOR	4	-	2	Hyang Mi Kim & Hyon Hui Kim, PRK
Bok Rae Kim & Kyung Ah Kim, KOR	4	-	0	Tamara Boros & Cornelia Vaida, CRO

Semifinals

August 19

winners on left in bold

Nan Wang & Yining Zhang, CHN	4	-	2	Yue Guo & Jianfeng Niu, CHN
Eun Sil Lee & Eun Mi Seok, KOR	4	-	0	Bok Rae Kim & Kyung Ah Kim, KOR

Bronze medal match

August 20

winners on left in bold

Yue Guo & Jianfeng Niu, CHN	4	-	3	Bok Rae Kim & Kyung Ah Kim, KOR

In an exciting match the Chinese appeared to have it won in the sixth set but the sixteen year old Guo tensed up and made a series of relatively simple mistakes to enable the South Koreans to wipe out a six point deficit and level the match at 3-3. Guo and Niu the settled back down and took a tight final set 11-9 to claim the bronze medal.

Gold medal match

August 20

winners on left in bold

Nan Wang & Yining Zhang, CHN	4	-	0	Eun Sil Lee & Eun Mi Seok, KOR