Valentina Popova (table tennis)

Valentina Popova
Personal information
Nationality Soviet Union  Slovakia
Born (1960-11-21) 21 November 1960
Sumgait
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's table tennis
European Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place1976 PragueTeam
Bronze medal – third place1978 DuisburgDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1978 DuisburgMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1980 BerneSingles
Gold medal – first place1980 BerneDoubles
Gold medal – first place1980 BerneTeam
Bronze medal – third place1982 BudapestSingles
Bronze medal – third place1982 BudapestMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1984 MoscowSingles
Gold medal – first place1984 MoscowDoubles
Gold medal – first place1984 MoscowMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1984 MoscowTeam
Silver medal – second place1986 PragueTeam
Bronze medal – third place1988 ParisSingles
Gold medal – first place1988 ParisTeam
Bronze medal – third place1990 GothenburgDoubles
Representing  Unified Team
Bronze medal – third place1992 StuttgartTeam
Representing  Slovakia
Bronze medal – third place1994 BirminghamMixed Doubles
Friendship Games
Bronze medal – third place1984 MoscowWomen's doubles

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

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).

She is a multiple USSR National champion - six times in singles, five times in doubles, and three times in mixed doubles.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Valentina Popova". tabletennis.guide. Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ↑ "Valentina Popova". ITTF.com. International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
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