Valentina Popova (table tennis)

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]

Valentina Popova
Personal information
Nationality Soviet Union  Slovakia
Born (1960-11-21) 21 November 1960
Sumgait
Medal record
Women's table tennis
European Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
1976 Prague Team
1978 Duisburg Doubles
1978 Duisburg Mixed Doubles
1980 Berne Singles
1980 Berne Doubles
1980 Berne Team
1982 Budapest Singles
1982 Budapest Mixed Doubles
1984 Moscow Singles
1984 Moscow Doubles
1984 Moscow Mixed Doubles
1984 Moscow Team
1986 Prague Team
1988 Paris Singles
1988 Paris Team
1990 Gothenburg Doubles
Representing  Unified Team
1992 Stuttgart Team
Representing  Slovakia
1994 Birmingham Mixed Doubles
Friendship Games
1984 MoscowWomen's doubles

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. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2012-10-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.


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