Georgina Póta

Georgina Póta
Georgina Póta 2017
Nation:	Hungary
Date of birth:	January 13, 1985
Place of birth:	Budapest
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	37
Best world ranking :	14 (January 2015)
Best national ranking:	2 (2007-2009)

Georgina Póta (born January 13, 1985 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian table tennis player . She was twice European champion.

Career

Georgina Póta started playing table tennis in 1990 at the age of five and joined the Statisztika Budapest association in 1994 . With the women's team, she won the Hungarian championship eight times from 1998 to 2006, with the exception of 2000. In 2006 and 2008 she became Hungarian champion in singles, in 2010 and 2013 (with Petra Lovas ) she won the title in doubles.

She achieved her first international successes in the late 1990s and early 2000s at the European Youth Championships:

• 1998: Cadets, silver in doubles with Ildikó Csernyi
• 1999: Cadets, mixed gold with Dániel Zwickl
• 2000: Juniors, silver in doubles with Ildikó Csernyik
• 2001: Juniors, gold in doubles with Ildikó Csernyik and with the team
• 2002: Juniors, gold in the individual

In 2003 she won the European ranking tournament TOP-12 for young people.

Among the adults, Póta first started in a world championship in 2003 , and to date (2011) she has taken part in a world championship nine times. In 2007 she reached the quarter-finals in doubles. Since 2005 she has been nominated four times for European championships . In 2008 she was European champion in doubles with Krisztina Tóth , with whom she had already stood in the 2007 final. She won another gold medal in 2007 with the Hungarian women's team. In 2008 and 2012 she qualified to participate in the Olympic Games. With the German Tanja Hain-Hofmann , she reached the double semifinals of the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2005 .

In the national rankings of Hungary she took second place behind Krisztina Tóth from 2007 to 2009.

Activities in Germany

In 2008 she moved to the German Bundesliga at 3B Berlin (today's name "Ttc berlin eastside") where she still plays actively today (2017).

Private

In May 2017 Georgina Póta married Norbert Kovács , the Hungarian swimmer and Olympic competitor from 2008.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	Quarter finals	silver
HUN	European Championship	2011	Gdańsk-Sopot	POLE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
HUN	European Championship	2010	Ostrava	CZE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
HUN	European Championship	2009	Stuttgart	GER		Quarter finals
HUN	European Championship	2008	St. Petersburg	RUS	Quarter finals	gold		2
HUN	European Championship	2007	Belgrade	SRB		silver	Semifinals	1
HUN	European Championship	2005	Aarhus	THE	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1999	Frydek-Mistek	CZE			gold
HUN	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1998	Norcia	ITA		silver
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2002	Moscow	RUS	gold
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2001	Terni	ITA		gold		1
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2000	Bratislava	SVK		silver
HUN	EURO TOP12	2012	Villeurbanne	FRA	5th place
HUN	EURO TOP12	2008	Frankfurt	GER	9th place
HUN	EURO TOP12	2005	Rennes	FRA	9th place
HUN	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 32
HUN	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Berlin	GER	last 64	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Spała	POLE	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Las Vegas	United States	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Zagreb	CRO	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 16	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Olomouc	CZE	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Helsingborg	SWE	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Zagreb	CRO	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Doha	QAT	last 16	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	last 16	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Schwechat	AUT	last 16	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	last 16	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Dortmund	GER	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Doha	QAT	last 64	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2011	Velenje	SLO	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2010	catfish	AUT	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2010	Berlin	GER	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2010	Velenje	SVN	last 64	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2009	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 16	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2009	Tianjin	CHN	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2009	Bremen	GER	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2009	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2009	Velenje	SVN	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2008	Berlin	GER	last 32			5
HUN	Pro tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	last 16			1
HUN	Pro tour	2008	Yokohama	JPN	last 16			9
HUN	Pro tour	2008	Velenje	SVN	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Stockholm	SWE	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Bremen	GER	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2007	catfish	AUT	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2007	St. Petersburg	RUS	last 16	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Shenzhen	CHN	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Taipei	TPE	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Salwa Cup	KUW	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Doha	QAT	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Bayreuth	GER	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2006	St. Petersburg	RUS	last 16	silver
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Belgrade	SRB	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Yokohama	JPN	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Guangzhou	CHN	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Santiago	CHI	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2006	São Paulo	BRA	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2006	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Magdeburg	GER	last 64	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2005	St. Petersburg	RUS	last 32	gold
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Yokohama	JPN		Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Shenzhen	CHN	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Santiago	CHI	Quarter finals	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16	gold
HUN	Pro tour	2005	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2004	catfish	AUT	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig	GER	Quarter finals	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Aarhus	THE	last 32	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Kobe	JPN	last 32	Quarter finals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Santiago	CHI	Semifinals	Semifinals
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Singapore	SIN	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Pyeongchang	COR	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Athens	GRE	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2004	Croatia	HRV	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2003	Malmo	SWE	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2003	Aarhus	THE	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2003	Bremen	GER	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2002	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 64
HUN	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	last 64	last 16
HUN	Pro tour	2001	Bayreuth	GER	last 64	last 32
HUN	Pro tour	2001	Zagreb	HRV		last 16
HUN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2005	Fuzhou	CHN		Semifinals
HUN	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 128	last 16	last 64
HUN	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				11
HUN	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 64	last 32	last 32
HUN	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				7th
HUN	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 64	last 16
HUN	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				5
HUN	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	Quarter finals	last 128
HUN	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				6th
HUN	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 32	last 32	last 128
HUN	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				8th
HUN	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 64		Agony
HUN	World cup	2018	Cheng you	CHN	last 16
HUN	World cup	2017	Markham	CAN	last 16
HUN	World cup	2016	Philadelphia	United States	last 16
HUN	World cup	2015	Sendai	JPN	last 16
HUN	World cup	2014	Linz	AUT	4th Place
HUN	World cup	2008	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	13-16. space
HUN	Youth World Championship	2003	Santiago	CHI	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
HUN	World Junior Circuit	2003	Örebro	SWE	gold
HUN	World Junior Circuit	2002	Lima	BY	gold
HUN	World Junior Circuit	2002	Platja d'Aro	ESP	silver
HUN	World Junior Circuit Finals	2003	Genting	MAS	silver
HUN	World Junior Circuit Finals	2002	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals
HUN	WTC World Team Cup	2011	Magdeburg	GER				5th place
HUN	WTC World Team Cup	2010	Dubai	UAE				5th place
HUN	WTC World Team Cup	2009	Linz	AUT	5th place
HUN	WTC World Team Cup	2007	Magdeburg	GER				3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ Portrait on the website of TTC Berlin eastside ( memento of the original from July 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 13, 2011) 
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/3 page 6
4. ↑ Youth European Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016)
5. ^ Plopp - The table tennis magazine for Hesse, 2003/2 pages 6–7
6. ↑ Change of club on tischtennis.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on November 13, 2011)
7. ↑ Neha Aggarwal: Georgina Pota ties the knot in a princess-like avatar Article from May 24, 2017 on ittf.com (accessed May 24, 2017)
8. ↑ Georgina Póta Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 24, 2014)

Web links

• Georgina Póta Article about Georgina Póta on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed June 24, 2014)
• Georgina Póta biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed June 24, 2014)
• Georgina Póta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed June 24, 2014)