Olena Kowtun

Olena Kowtun ( Ukrainian Олена Ковтун , Russian Елена Ковтун ; born November 20, 1966 in Brjansk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Ukrainian table tennis player who won two youth and two adult European championships in the 1980s.

Career

Olena Kowtun is a defender.

She gained her first table tennis experience at the Burewiestnik Charków club . She celebrated her first international success at the European Junior Championships in Topoľčany in 1981 , when her team won the silver medal. This was followed by the European Youth Championships in Linz in 1984, where she won the singles title ahead of Olga Nemes and doubles with Raisa Diachenko. In 1986 she took part in a European Championship for adults for the first time. Here she was European champion in doubles with Fliura Bulatowa , with the women’s team of the USSR she won silver. In 1988 the title was not defended in doubles because the final against the Hungarians Csilla Bátorfi / Edit Urbán was lost. For this she was first with the women's team. In 1996 she played again at a European Championship, where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals with her former doubles partner Fliura Bulatowa, who was now called Bulatowa-Abbate.

From 1987 to 2005, Olena Kowtun took part in nine world championships . Sixth place in the 1987 team competition was her best result. In the European ranking tournament TOP12 she came in sixth place in 1987 and fourth in 1988. In 1988 and 2000 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games. In the ITTF world rankings , she was ranked 23rd in 1988. After 2005, she no longer appeared internationally.

Career abroad

Olena Kowtun has been active in the Polish league since 1991 and currently played for the Telwolt Tarnobrzeg club. She has a daughter who also plays table tennis.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
UKR	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK		Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	last 16	silver		1
URS	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH		gold		2
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1984	Linz	AUT	gold	gold
URS	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	4th
URS	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	6th
UKR	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	immediately excluded	no participants
URS	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	immediately excluded	6th
UKR	Pro tour	2004	Warsaw	POLE	last 32
UKR	Pro tour	2002	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
UKR	Pro tour	1997	Gdańsk	POLE	last 32	Rd 1
UKR	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 128	last 64
UKR	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				15th
UKR	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 64	last 64
UKR	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				21-24
UKR	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 64	Scratched	Scratched
UKR	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 128	Scratched	last 128	13
UKR	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 64	no participants	17th
UKR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 128	Agony	no participants	25th
URS	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	last 16	no participants	6th

Web links

• Portrait (Polish) (accessed November 7, 2011; PDF; 277 kB)
• Olena Kowtun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ЕЛЕНА КОВТУН: «… И ВЕК УЧУСЬ!" (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 15, 2011 (Russian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2003/12, page 7
3. ↑ ^{a b} tenisstolowy.pl, Prezentacje - Olena Kowtun (PDF; 277 kB) accessed on November 7, 2011
4. ↑ Ladies doubles at the European Championship 1996 ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
5. ↑ Olena Kowtun Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 7, 2011)