Valentina Popova (table tennis)

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]

Valentina Popova
Personal information
Nationality	Soviet Union  Slovakia
Born	(1960-11-21) 21 November 1960 (age 64) Sumgait
Medal record Women's table tennis European Championships Representing  Soviet Union 1976 Prague Team 1978 Duisburg Doubles 1978 Duisburg Mixed Doubles 1980 Berne Singles 1980 Berne Doubles 1980 Berne Team 1982 Budapest Singles 1982 Budapest Mixed Doubles 1984 Moscow Singles 1984 Moscow Doubles 1984 Moscow Mixed Doubles 1984 Moscow Team 1986 Prague Team 1988 Paris Singles 1988 Paris Team 1990 Gothenburg Doubles Representing  Unified Team 1992 Stuttgart Team Representing  Slovakia 1994 Birmingham Mixed Doubles Friendship Games 1984 Moscow Women's doubles

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.

See also

• List of table tennis players