Nikoleta Stefanova

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Nikoleta Stefanova Table tennis player
Nation: ItalyItaly Italy
Date of birth: April 22, 1984
Place of birth: Teteven
Playing hand: Left
Best world ranking : 23 (March 2007)
Current national ranking: 1
Best national ranking: 1

Nikoleta Stefanova (also spelled Stefanowa , Bulgarian Николета Стефанова ; born April 22, 1984 in Teteven ) is an Italian table tennis player born in Bulgaria . She was twice second in doubles at European Championships .

youth

Left-handed Nikoleta Stefanova was born in Bulgaria. Her mother had played in the junior national team, her father was a top Bulgarian player. In 1986 the family moved to Italy, first to Sicily, later to Milan, where her father worked as a trainer and supported her in her sporting career. At the age of five Stefanova started playing table tennis. Internationally, she always performed for Italy.

She achieved her first successes in her youth. At the European Youth Championships in 1997 she was second in the individual. In 1998 she won the doubles title with Cornelia Vaida (Croatia), in 2000 with Sandra Paović (Croatia).

Adults

From 1999 to 2010 Stefanova was nominated eleven times for world championships . In doing so, she never came close to medal ranks. In 2007 she took second place behind Li Jiao in the Europe TOP-12 tournament .

From 2003 to 2009 Stefanova took part in the European Championship five times . In 2003 she was team European champion with Italy, in individual she reached the semi-finals. At the following European championships she always won a medal in doubles with Wenling Tan Monfardini : bronze in 2005 and 2007 and silver in 2008 and 2009 .

In 2004 and 2008 Stefanova took part in the Summer Olympics. In July 2011 she was 77th in the ITTF world rankings .

National successes in Italy

Stefanova played for the San Mauro Team until 2001 and then moved to Germany for one season for Team Heidifoto Coesfeld in the Bundesliga . She later returned to Italy to Sterilgarda TT Castel Goffredo , with whose women's team she won the Italian team championship six times in a row from 2003 to 2006. In 2006 and 2007 the team also won the Champions League . She won numerous titles in the individual competitions of the Italian championship:

  • 6 times singles: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
  • 6 times doubles: 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • 6 times mixed: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
ITA European Championship 2009 Stuttgart GER Quarter finals silver
ITA European Championship 2008 St. Petersburg RUS silver
ITA European Championship 2007 Belgrade SRB Semifinals
ITA European Championship 2005 Aarhus THE Semifinals
ITA European Championship 2003 Courmayeur ITA Semifinals 1
ITA European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1998 Norcia ITA gold
ITA European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1997 Topolcany SVK silver
ITA European Youth Championship (Juniors) 2000 Bratislava SVK gold
ITA EURO TOP12 2007 Arezzo ITA 2
ITA EURO TOP12 2006 Copenhagen THE 5th place
ITA Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara ITA 1
ITA Mediterranean Games 2005 Almeria ESP 3rd place
ITA Olympic games 2008 Beijing CHN last 64
ITA Olympic games 2004 Athens GRE last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2010 catfish AUT last 32
ITA Pro tour 2010 Budaörs HUN Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2010 Berlin GER last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2010 Doha QAT last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2009 Warsaw POLE last 32
ITA Pro tour 2009 Sheffield CLOSELY last 32
ITA Pro tour 2009 Tianjin CHN last 32
ITA Pro tour 2009 Bremen GER last 16 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2009 Doha QAT last 16
ITA Pro tour 2009 Kuwait City KUW last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2009 Velenje SVN last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2008 Warsaw POLE last 16 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2008 Berlin GER Semifinals 5
ITA Pro tour 2008 Daejeon COR last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2008 Daejeon COR last 16
ITA Pro tour 2008 Velenje SVN last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Bremen GER last 64
ITA Pro tour 2007 Toulouse FRA last 64
ITA Pro tour 2007 catfish AUT last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 St. Petersburg RUS last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Taipei TPE last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Chiba JPN last 32
ITA Pro tour 2007 Seongnam COR last 64
ITA Pro tour 2007 Salwa Cup KUW last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Doha QAT last 64 Semifinals
ITA Pro tour 2007 Velenje SVN last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2007 Zagreb HRV last 32 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Warsaw POLE last 32 Semifinals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Bayreuth GER last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 St. Petersburg RUS Quarter finals Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Belgrade SRB Semifinals gold
ITA Pro tour 2006 Yokohama JPN last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Santiago CHI last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Sao Paulo BRA silver Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Kuwait City KUW last 32 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2006 Doha QAT last 32
ITA Pro tour 2006 Zagreb HRV last 32
ITA Pro tour 2006 Velenje SVN last 16
ITA Pro tour 2005 Gothenburg SWE last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2005 Magdeburg GER last 32
ITA Pro tour 2005 Doha QAT last 16
ITA Pro tour 2005 Zagreb HRV last 32
ITA Pro tour 2005 Velenje SVN Quarter finals Semifinals
ITA Pro tour 2004 catfish AUT last 16
ITA Pro tour 2004 Rio de Janeiro BRA last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2004 Santiago CHI last 16 silver
ITA Pro tour 2004 Cairo EGY last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2004 Athens GRE last 32
ITA Pro tour 2004 Croatia HRV last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2003 Aarhus THE last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2003 Bremen GER last 32
ITA Pro tour 2003 Kobe JPN last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2003 Doha QAT last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2003 Croatia HRV last 32
ITA Pro tour 2002 Farum THE last 64
ITA Pro tour 2002 Eindhoven NED last 32
ITA Pro tour 2002 Courmayeur ITA last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2002 Cairo EGY last 32 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2002 catfish AUT last 64 last 16
ITA Pro tour 2001 Rotterdam NED last 64 last 32
ITA Pro tour 2001 Bayreuth GER last 64 last 32
ITA Pro tour 2001 Zagreb HRV last 32 Rd 1
ITA Pro tour 2001 Chatham CLOSELY last 16 Quarter finals
ITA Pro tour 2000 Zagreb HRV Rd 1
ITA World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 19th
ITA World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN last 64 last 32 last 64
ITA World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 14th
ITA World Championship 2007 Zagreb HRV last 64 last 32 last 64
ITA World Championship 2006 Bremen GER 15th
ITA World Championship 2005 Shanghai CHN last 64 last 16 last 16
ITA World Championship 2004 Doha QAT 9
ITA World Championship 2003 Paris FRA last 128 last 32 Agony
ITA World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN last 128 last 64 last 64 25th
ITA World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 21-24
ITA World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED no participants no participants no participants

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Youth European Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016)
  2. ↑ Result report of the ETTU ( Memento of June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 13, 2016; PDF; 433 kB)
  3. ↑ Result report of the ETTU ( Memento of June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 13, 2016; PDF; 1.6 MB)
  4. ↑ European Championships for Adults ( Memento of the original from January 11, 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 January 11, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ettu.org
  5. ↑ ITTF world rankings (accessed on July 27, 2011)
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 p. 27 + 2001/8 p. 24
  7. ↑ Nikoleta Stefanova results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Stefanova, Nikoleta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian table tennis player of Bulgarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Teteven