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Valentina Ivanovna Popova (russian: Валентина Ивановна Попова) (born 21 November 1960 in
Sumgait Sumgait (; az, Sumqayıt, ) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about away from the capital Baku. The city has a population of around 345,300, making it the second largest city in Azerbaijan after Bak ...
) is a former Soviet, and then Slovak, international table tennis player.


Table tennis career

From 1976 to 1994, she won 18 medals at the
Table Tennis European Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever ...
. At the European Championships in 1984, she won all four possible gold medals (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

* List of table tennis players


References


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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 {{Slovakia-tabletennis-bio-stub