Valentina Popova (table tennis)

Valentina Popova
Personal information
Full name	POPOVA Valentina
Nationality	Soviet Union  Slovakia
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Slovakia European Championships 1994 Birmingham Mixed Doubles Representing  Soviet Union European Championships 1976 Prague Team 1980 Berne Singles 1980 Berne Doubles 1980 Berne Team 1984 Moscow Singles 1984 Moscow Doubles 1984 Moscow Mixed Doubles 1984 Moscow Team 1988 Paris Team 1986 Prague Team 1978 Duisburg Doubles 1978 Duisburg Mixed Doubles 1982 Budapest Singles 1982 Budapest Mixed Doubles 1988 Paris Singles 1990 Gothenburg Doubles

Valentina Ivanovna Popova (Russian: Валентина Ивановна Попова) (born 21 November 1960 in Sumgait) is a former Soviet, and then Slovak, table tennis player. From 1976 to 1994, she won several medals at the Table Tennis European Championships.^[1] 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

Table tennis in Russia
Organization	Table Tennis Association
Notable players	Fliura Bulatova Oksana Fadeyeva Tatiana Ferdman Svetlana Ganina Stanislav Gomozkov Svetlana Grinberg Galina Melnik Irina Palina Valentina Popova Rita Pogosova Zoja Rudnova Alexey Smirnov Elena Timina
List of table tennis players