Fliura Bulatova

Fliura Bulatova 1984

Fliura Bulatowa (born July 9, 1963 in Tashkent ) is an Italian table tennis player born in Uzbekistan . Bulatova played for USSR up to and including 1989 . She won the European Championship once in singles and twice in doubles.

youth

Fliura Bulatowa grew up in Tashkent, where she played table tennis for the first time when she was 10 years old. She was sponsored by the leisure coach Anatoli Laptev. She preferred the game in defense. In 1976 Bulatova won the Uzbekistan Girls' Championship. In the same year she was assigned the experienced professional trainer Michail Schmuckler. In 1977 she qualified for the USSR Youth Championship . In 1978 she won with the USSR team at the European Youth Championship in Barcelona. After that, Stanislav Gomozkov became her trainer. At the following European Youth Championships she was successful again: 1979 victory with the team, 1980 silver in doubles (with Elena Sidorova) and gold with the team, 1981 European champion in singles and victory with the team.

Adults

1979 Bulatowa was nominated for the first time for the world championship . For the USSR she started at the following four world championships: World Cup 1981 , World Cup 1983 , World Cup 1985 and World Cup 1987 , but could not win any medals.

At the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 she took first place in 1986 and 1988. She won several medals at the European Championships : in 1980 , 1984 and 1988 she won with the Soviet team. In 1982 she won the title in doubles with Inna Kowalenko , in 1984 she finished 2nd in singles, 1986 silver in singles and doubles (with Elena Kovtun ), in 1988 European champion in singles and 2nd in doubles (with Elena Kovtun).

In 1988 she took part in the Olympic Games with the USSR .

Italy

In 1989 Bulatowa moved to Italy. From 1994 she was eligible to play for this country, for which she started in 1994 and 1996 at the European Championships, 1995 at the World Cup and in 1996 at the Olympic Games . With the ASTT Vittoria club she took part in the European Cup in 1990/91, and in 1996 and 1997 she won the Italian championship in singles and doubles.

Private

Bulatowa is the daughter of a teacher couple. She studied philosophy at the University of Tashkent. After their marriage, she performed under the name Bulatowa-Abbate .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	competition	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ITA	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK	last 16	Quarter finals
ITA	European Championship	1994	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 16
URS	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	gold	silver		1
URS	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	silver	gold		2
URS	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	silver	Quarter finals		1
URS	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	gold
URS	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI				1
URS	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1978	Barcelona	ESP				1
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1981	Topolcany	TCH	gold			1
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1980	Poznań	POLE		silver		1
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1979	Roma	ITA				1
ITA	EURO TOP12	1995	Dijon	FRA	Scratched
ITA	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	5
URS	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	12
URS	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	1
URS	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	3
URS	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	1
URS	EURO TOP12	1985	Barcelona	ESP	5
URS	EURO TOP12	1984	Bratislava	TCH	5
URS	EURO TOP12	1983	Cleveland	CLOSELY	2
ITA	Mediterranean Games	1997	Bari Taranto	ITA	gold	silver
ITA	Mediterranean Games	1993	Meze	FRA	gold	gold
ITA	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	no participants
URS	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	5	6th
ITA	Pro tour	1996	Bolzano	ITA		Quarter finals
ITA	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	last 32	last 128	18th
URS	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 16	last 16	no participants	6th
URS	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	last 32	last 32	5
URS	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 64	last 16	last 16	4th
URS	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 16	no participants	last 16	4th

literature

• Eduard Frimermann: The long way from Tashkent to Moscow: Fliura Bulatova , DTS magazine , 1986/6 pages 41–43
• Gerlinde Glatzer-Bittner : Fliura Bulatova's first European Championship title - What takes a long time is finally good , DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 22

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 12
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/9 page 38
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/8 page 41 + 1997/4 page 17
4. ↑ Fliura Bulatowa Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 4, 2011)