Irina Viktorovna Kotichina
Irina Wiktorowna Kotichina ( Russian Ирина Викторовна Котихина ; born December 17, 1980 in Gorki ) is a Russian table tennis player . She played temporarily in the German Bundesliga and won bronze at the 2007 European Championship .
Career
Kotichina started playing table tennis when she was eight. She became a defender . At the European Youth Championships she won the title with the Russian team in 1995 and 1998, and in 1995 she reached the final in doubles with Natalia Lapteva.
In 1998 she left the club Nitel Novgorod and moved to the German Bundesliga club Rot-Weiß Klettham-Erding . In the following season 1999/2000 she played for Team Galaxis Lübeck , then for the TTFC Burgwedel . She later returned to Russia and achieved national success with Nizhny Novgorod.
She married in 1999 and became a mother in late 2003. Since her husband was often away on business, raising children left her less time to train compared to other table tennis professionals.
European Championship 2007
The 2007 European Championship was the first important tournament where it appeared again internationally. Therefore, experts were surprised that she finished second with the team and won the bronze medal in the individual. With victories over Mie Skov (Denmark), Ekaterina Ntoulaki (Greece), Li Qianbing (Austria) and Nicole Struse (Germany) she reached the semifinals. Here she was defeated by the later European champion Li Jiao (Netherlands).
Further international appearances
At the European Championships in 2008 she reached the quarter-finals in doubles. So far, she has participated in world championships four times, namely in 2001 , 2006 , 2007 and 2008 . She was also represented at the 2008 Olympic Games .
Currently (June 2009) she is ranked 90th in the ITTF world rankings . Her best placement since 2000 was 69th place (June 2007, February and March 2008).
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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RUS | European Championship | 2008 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | |||
RUS | European Championship | 2007 | Belgrade | SRB | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 2 | |
RUS | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1995 | The hague | NED | silver | 1 | ||
RUS | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1998 | Norcia | ITA | 1 | |||
RUS | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 128 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | Semifinals | gold | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 64 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 64 | last 16 | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 16 | last 16 | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2006 | Belgrade | SRB | last 32 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2005 | St. Petersburg | RUS | silver | last 16 | ||
RUS | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
RUS | Pro tour | 2004 | Aarhus | THE | last 16 | |||
RUS | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 16 | |||
RUS | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | last 32 | last 128 | |
RUS | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 13 | |||
RUS | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 128 | Agony | no participants | 23 |
literature
- Rahul Nelson: Woe if the saw comes , table tennis magazine , 2007/4 p.22
Web links
- Irina Wiktorowna Kotichina biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English) (accessed on August 5, 2011)
- Short biography at peoples.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 p.12 + 1999/8 p.22 + 2000/6 p.22
- ↑ Butterfly News, November 2005, p. 5.
- ↑ http://www.ittfranking.com/cgi-bin/ttplayer.cgi?number=104845&lang=0&format=detailed4
- ↑ Irina Viktorovna Kotichina Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 11, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kotichina, Irina Viktorovna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kotikhina, Irina; Котихина, Ирина Викторовна (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorky , Soviet Union |