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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
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
References
- ^ "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
- Valentina Popova at World Table Tennis
- Valentina Popova at Olympedia
- Valentina Popova at Olympics.com
- Valentina Popova at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
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- 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
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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
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
References
- ^ "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
- Valentina Popova at World Table Tennis
- Valentina Popova at Olympedia
- Valentina Popova at Olympics.com
- Valentina Popova at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
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- 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