Rita Levonovna Pogossova
Rita Levonowna Pogossowa ( Russian Рита Левоновна Погосова ; born December 6, 1948 in Baku ) is a former Russian table tennis player and trainer. With the Russian team they became world champions in 1969 and European champions in 1970 .
Career
Rita Levonowna Pogossowa won eight titles at the national Russian championships, namely in 1969 in singles, 1968, 1969 and 1970 in doubles and in 1967, 1968, 1970 and 1975 in mixed.
From 1966 to 1973 she took part in four European championships and four world championships . At the European Championships in 1966 and 1968 , she won silver with the team. She was most successful in 1970 when she won the title in the team competition and also reached the semi-finals in the individual and was in the final in mixed with Sarkis Sarchajan . In 1969 she became world champion with the Russian women's team in Munich.
In the world rankings , she was ranked 14th in 1971.
In 1976 Rita Lewonowna Pogossowa ended her active career as a competitive athlete. From 1978 to 1990 she worked in the sports company "Spartak" (Yerevan). From 2001 she worked as a trainer in Italy, initially for a university team in Messina , and since 2007 as a children's trainer in a table tennis club in Binasco .
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| URS | European Championship | 1972 | Rotterdam | NED | Quarter finals | |||
| URS | European Championship | 1970 | Moscow | URS | Semifinals | Quarter finals | silver | gold |
| URS | European Championship | 1968 | Lyon | FRA | last 16 | Quarter finals | silver | |
| URS | European Championship | 1966 | London | CLOSELY | silver | |||
| URS | World Championship | 1973 | Sarajevo | YUG | last 32 | Agony | last 64 | 5 |
| URS | World Championship | 1971 | Nagoya | JPN | last 32 | last 32 | Quarter finals | 5 |
| URS | World Championship | 1969 | Munich | FRG | last 64 | last 32 | last 16 | gold |
| URS | World Championship | 1967 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | last 32 | last 16 |
swell
- Portrait (Russian) (accessed January 24, 2019)
- ITTF database (accessed January 24, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on January 26, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pogossowa, Rita Levonovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pogosowa, Rita; Pogosova, Rita; Погосова, Рита Левоновна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian table tennis player and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baku |