Narine Antonyan

Narine Antonyan
Nation:	Armenia
Date of birth:	January 22, 1961
Place of birth:	Yerevan
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand

Narine Koryunovna Antonyan (also Antonjan or Antonian , Armenian Նարինե Անտոնյան , Russian Нарине Корюновна Антонян * 22. January 1961 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Armenian table tennis player who belonged in the 1980s to the world's best. She was European champion four times.

youth

From 1976 to 1978 Antonyan was nominated six times for the European Youth Championship. She won seven gold medals: 1977 in singles, doubles with Valentina Popovová and mixed with Vasilij Putilowsky and 1978 in doubles with Popovová. There are also three title wins with the Russian youth team.

Adults

For adults, Antonyan took part in all five European championships from 1978 to 1986. In 1980 and 1984 she was European champion in doubles with Valentina Popovová and with the Russian team. In 1978 she reached the double semifinals (with Popovová), in 1986 she reached the final in the team competition.

At the European ranking tournament TOP-12 she achieved seventh place in 1985.

She was nominated four times for participation in world championships , namely in 1979 , 1981 , 1985 and 1993 . Her greatest success was fourth place with the women's team in 1979 and 1981.

Since the end of the 1990s she played at SSV Hagen in the German Oberliga and Regionalliga. In addition, she trains the youngsters at the TSV 1863 Herdecke club. For the 2011/2012 season, Narine Antonyan moved to TTC Hagen , where she was responsible for promoting young talent. Since 2013 she has been playing in the association league with DJK Blau-Weiß Annen.

Private

Narine Antonyan married in 1985 and has one child (* 1986). Her older sister Elmira is also internationally successful.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
URS	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	last 16			2
URS	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	last 16	gold		1
URS	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI	Quarter finals	gold		1
URS	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG		Semifinals
URS	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1977	Vichy	FRA	gold			1
URS	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1976	Modling	AUT				1
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1978	Barcelona	ESP		gold		1
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1977	Vichy	FRA		gold	gold
URS	EURO TOP12	1985	Barcelona	ESP	7th
POOR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	Agony	Agony	no participants	19th
URS	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals	last 32	5
URS	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 64	last 16	Agony	4th
URS	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	last 16	last 32	4th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table tennis database Bonn, January 11, 2005 ( memento of April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 25, 2016)
2. ↑ Youth training TSV Herdecke ( Memento of the original from February 20, 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 February 20, 2016) 
3. ↑ Homepage of the TTC Hagen ( Memento from September 26, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ “I still need to improve” , article from January 16, 2014 in The West . (accessed on January 25, 2016)
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/9 page 34
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/3 page 12
7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/16 page 8
8. ↑ Elmira Antonyan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 17, 2010)
9. ^ Narine Antonyan results from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 3, 2011)

Web links

• Results of the European Championships (accessed on September 17, 2010)