Gordana Perkučin

Gordana Perkučin (born May 7, 1962 in Novi Kneževac , Serbia) is a Yugoslav table tennis player . She became European champion in doubles in 1992.

youth

Gordana Perkučin achieved her first international successes at the European Youth Championships. Here she won the individual title in the cadet class in 1975 and 1976. In 1978 she reached the junior final in singles, doubles (with Ildiko Bolvari , Hungary) and mixed (with Iztok Frank). A year later she was again second in doubles with Ildiko Bolvari.

Adults

From 1977 to 1992 Perkučin took part in seven European and eight world championships .

In 1992 she became European doubles champion in Stuttgart together with Jasna Fazlić (Yugoslavia). Already in 1980 she had won silver in the singles behind Valentina Popovová . In 1984 she was second in doubles with Branka Batinić . She won another silver medal in 1986 in mixed with Ilija Lupulesku .

At the 1979 World Cup , she reached the semi-finals in doubles with Eržebet Palatinuš , and in 1989 World Cup she lost the mixed final with Zoran Kalinić .

Perkučin achieved her best placement in the European ranking tournament TOP12 in 1981 with eighth place. She qualified twice for participation in the Summer Olympics , namely in 1988 and 1992 . In 1988 she won the bronze medal in doubles with Jasna Fazlić . It was the only medal win by European women at this Olympiad.

In the ITTF world rankings , she was ranked eleventh in July 1980.

After 1992 she stopped performing internationally.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1985	Pleven	BUL	Semifinals		silver	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1984	Athens	GRE	silver	gold	gold	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1983	Ivangrad	YUG	silver	silver	gold
YUG	Balkan Championship	1982	Izmir	DOOR		silver	gold
YUG	Balkan Championship	1981	Constanza	ROU	Semifinals	silver	gold
YUG	Balkan Championship	1978	Nis	YUG	Semifinals
YUG	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER		gold
YUG	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE		Quarter finals		3
YUG	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
YUG	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	last 16		silver
YUG	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	Quarter finals	silver		2
YUG	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI	silver	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
YUG	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG	last 16	Quarter finals
YUG	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1976	Modling	AUT	gold
YUG	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1975	Zagreb	YUG	gold
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1979	Roma	ITA	Semifinals	silver
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1978	Barcelona	ESP	silver	silver	silver
YUG	EURO TOP12	1992	Vienna	AUT	9
YUG	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	12
YUG	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	12
YUG	EURO TOP12	1985	Barcelona	ESP	9
YUG	EURO TOP12	1982	Nantes	FRA	9
YUG	EURO TOP12	1981	Miskolc	HUN	8th
YUG	EURO TOP12	1980	Munich	FRG	11
YUG	Mediterranean Championship	1983	Messina	ITA	gold	gold		1
YUG	Mediterranean Games	1991	Athens	GRE	Semifinals	gold
YUG	Mediterranean Games	1979	Hvar Split	YUG	4th Place	gold
YUG	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	no participants	immediately excluded
YUG	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	immediately excluded	bronze
YUG	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 128	last 16	last 32	10
YUG	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 32	silver	13
YUG	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	last 16	last 32	8th
YUG	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 128	last 32	last 16	15th
YUG	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 32	last 16	last 64	13
YUG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 32	last 32	last 64	11
YUG	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	Semifinals	last 32	8th
YUG	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	Scratched	last 64	last 32	14th
YUG	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		Quarter finals
YUG	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical world rankings ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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 July 23, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)  
2. ↑ Gordana Perkučin Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 13, 2011)

Web links

• databaseOlympics (accessed July 23, 2011)
• Gordana Perkučin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed July 23, 2011)