Valentina Popova (table tennis)
Appearance
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Nationality | Soviet Union Slovakia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sumgait | 21 November 1960|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Valentina Ivanovna Popova (Russian: Валентина Ивановна Попова) (born 21 November 1960 in Sumgait) is a former Soviet, and then Slovak, international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit]From 1976 to 1994, she won 18 medals at the Table Tennis European Championships.[2] At the European Championships in 1984, she won all four possible gold medals[3] (singles, team (USSR), doubles (with Narine Antonyan), and mixed doubles (with Jacques Secretin), becoming the second ever absolute European women table tennis champion (Zoja Rudnova was the first one to do that in 1970).[citation needed]
She is a multiple USSR National champion - six times in singles, five times in doubles, and three times in mixed doubles.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Valentina Popova". tabletennis.guide. Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Valentina Popova". ITTF.com. International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
External links
[edit]- Valentina Popova at World Table Tennis
- Valentina Popova at Olympedia
- Valentina Popova at Olympics.com
- Valentina Popova at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Russian female table tennis players
- Slovak female table tennis players
- Soviet table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players for the Soviet Union
- Olympic table tennis players for the Unified Team
- Olympic table tennis players for Slovakia
- Sportspeople from Sumgait
- European table tennis biography stubs
- Russian sportspeople stubs
- Slovak sportspeople stubs