Fliura Abbate-Bulatova is a former Soviet and then Italian

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. Born in 1963 in Uzbekistan, then part of

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, her main achievement has been the gold medal in the single competition 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 ...

in 1988. She won several other medals in international competitions. She is also a multiple

National champion - twice in singles, three times in doubles and once in mixed doubles.

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