Valentina Popova (table tennis)
Soviet-Slovak table tennis player
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.
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1958: Ann Haydon , Jill Rook , Diane Rowe (ENG)
1960: Gizella Gervai , Éva Kóczián , Sarolta Lukacs , Lívia Mossóczy (HUN)
1962: Inge Harst-Muser , Uschi Matthias-Firdler , Agnes Simon , Edit Wetzel-Buchholz (FRG)
1964: Lesley Bell , Irene Ogus , Diane Rowe , Mary Shannon (ENG)
1966: Éva Kóczián , Erzsebet Heirits , Sarolta Lukacs (HUN)
1968: Wiebke Hendriksen , Jutta Krüger , Agnes Simon , Edit Wetzel-Buchholz (FRG)
1970: Svetlana Grinberg , Rita Pogosova , Zoja Rudnova , Aldona Skarulene-Kondrotaite (URS)
1972: Beatrix Kisházi , Henriette Lotaller , Judit Magos-Havas (HUN)
1974: Elmira Antonyan , Svetlana Fedorova , Zoja Rudnova , Asta Gedraitite (URS)
1976: Elmira Antonyan , Tatiana Ferdman , Valentina Popova , Zoja Rudnova (URS)
1978: Beatrix Kisházi , Judit Magos-Havas , Zsuzsa Olah , Gabriella Szabó (HUN)
1980: Narine Antonjan , Fliura Bulatova , Ludmila Bakshutova , Valentina Popova (URS)
1982: Beatrix Kisházi , Zsuzsa Olah , Gabriella Szabó , Edit Urban (HUN)
1984: Narine Antonjan , Fliura Bulatova , Valentina Popova , Anita Zakharjan (URS)
1986: Csilla Bátorfi , Györgyi Fazekas , Zsuzsa Olah , Edit Urban (HUN)
1988: Fliura Bulatova , Elena Kovtun , Valentina Popova , Raisa Timofeeva (URS)
1990: Csilla Bátorfi , Györgyi Fazekas , Zsuzsa Olah , Edit Urban (HUN)
1992: Otilia Bădescu , Emilia Ciosu , Maria Rotaru , Adriana Zamfir (ROU)
1994: Svetlana Bakhtina , Oksana Fadeyeva , Galina Melnik , Irina Palina , Elena Timina (RUS)
1996: Christina Fischer , Olga Nemeș , Jie Schöpp , Nicole Struse , Elke Schall (GER)
1998: Christina Fischer , Olga Nemeș , Jie Schöpp , Nicole Struse , Elke Schall (GER)
2000: Csilla Bátorfi , Maria Fazekas , Zita Molnár , Krisztina Tóth (HUN)
2002: Ana Gogorita , Maria Rotaru , Mihaela Steff , Adriana Zamfir (ROU)
2003: Ding Yan , Wenling Tan Monfardini , Laura Negrisoli , Nikoleta Stefanova , Wang Yu (ITA)
2005: Otilia Bădescu , Elizabeta Samara , Mihaela Steff , Adriana Zamfir (ROU)
2007: Li Bin , Petra Lovas , Georgina Póta , Krisztina Tóth , Szandra Pergel (HUN)
2008 : Linda Creemers , Li Jiao , Li Jie , Carla Nouwen , Elena Timina (NED)
2009 : Linda Creemers , Li Jiao , Li Jie , Carla Nouwen , Elena Timina (NED)
2010 : Li Jiao , Li Jie , Elena Timina (NED)
2011 : Linda Creemers , Britt Eerland , Li Jiao , Li Jie , Elena Timina (NED)
2013 : Han Ying , Shan Xiaona , Kristin Silbereisen , Petrissa Solja , Wu Jiaduo (GER)
2014 : Han Ying , Irene Ivancan , Shan Xiaona , Petrissa Solja , Sabine Winter (GER)
2015 : Han Ying , Irene Ivancan , Shan Xiaona , Petrissa Solja , Sabine Winter (GER)
2017 : Irina Ciobanu , Adina Diaconu , Daniela Monteiro , Elizabeta Samara , Bernadette Szőcs (ROU)
2019 : Irina Ciobanu , Adina Diaconu , Daniela Monteiro , Elizabeta Samara , Bernadette Szőcs (ROU)
2021 : Annett Kaufmann , Chantal Mantz , Nina Mittelham , Sabine Winter (GER)
2023 : Han Ying , Annett Kaufmann , Nina Mittelham , Shan Xiaona , Sabine Winter (GER)