Elmira Korjunovna Antonyan is an Armenian former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player who represented the

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. Her sister Narine Antonyan was also a table tennis player.

Table tennis career

She won two World Championship medals at the

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; a

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in the women's doubles with Tatiana Ferdman and a

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in the mixed doubles with Sarkis Sarchayan.

Coaching

She was a coach in Soviet Union, Armenia,

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and

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Table tennis career

Coaching

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