Georgina Póta (; born 13 January 1985 in
Budapest
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) is a multiple European Champion
table tennis
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player from
Hungary
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.
Career
Póta was born in the
Hungarian capital
Budapest
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in 1985 and began practicing table tennis in 1990. Between 1994 and 2008 she played for
Statisztika PSC in Hungary, subsequently she moved to
TTC Berlin Eastside.
For 1998 she already played in the Hungarian Top 12 and also participated at the
Table Tennis European Youth Championships
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Currently, the championships inc ...
in
Norcia
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,
Italy
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, where she finished runner-up in the Girls' Cadet Doubles with
Ildikó Csernyik. A year later she celebrated her first European Championship title after winning the Cadet Mixed Doubles event on the side of
Dániel Zwickl. This was followed by other medals in the coming years, including three golds in the Junior category (women's doubles, team – 2001, Terni; women's singles – 2002, Moscow).
Her first major senior success came in 2007, when she won gold medal in the team competition at the
Table Tennis European Championships
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in
Belgrade. Additionally, she collected a silver medal in women's doubles and a bronze medal in mixed doubles. In the next year she won another gold at the
2008 Table Tennis European Championships, this time in doubles with
Krisztina Tóth. In the team event she came second with Hungary.
She also competed at the
Beijing
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2008 Summer Olympics, where she was knocked out in the third round by
Wang Nan of
China who later managed to win the silver medal. Four years later at the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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she was given bye in the first round due to her seeding and entered the competition in the second round against
Tian Yuan. She beat her Croatian opponent 4–1, just to fell short against
Park Mi-young with the same scoreline in the best of 32.
In 2014 she won both the German national cup and championship with
TTC Berlin Eastside and also went triumphant in the
European Champions League
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.
Awards
* Hungarian Table Tennis Player of the Year: 2004, 2012, 2013
* Junior Prima Award: 2007
See also
*
List of table tennis players
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References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Table tennis players from Budapest
Hungarian female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for Hungary
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
European Games competitors for Hungary
Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games
Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics