Valentina Popovová
Valentina Popovová (originally Russian Валентина Ивановна Попова , Walentina Ivanovna Popowa, English transcription Valentina Popova; born November 21, 1960 in Sumqayıt , Azerbaijani SSR ) is a former Soviet and Slovak table tennis player . She was nine-time European champion in the 1980s.
youth
In 1968 Popova began to play table tennis. At that time she trained in Baku under Jurij Oparin, later under Nikolai Novikow.
In 1974 she won gold with the team at the European Schools Championship in Göppingen; in the individual she failed in the semifinals to Gabriella Szabó . At the European Youth Championships she reached second place several times: 1975 (behind Gordana Perkučin ), 1976 (behind Tatjana Romachina) and 1977 (behind Bettine Vriesekoop ). With the team she won the title in 1975, 1976 and 1978. She won doubles in 1977 and 1978 (both with Narine Antonyan ).
Adults
From 1977 to 1981 Popova won the Soviet national title five times in a row.
At the European Championships she got her first title in 1976, in the team competition. In 1980 she won gold in singles, doubles (with Narine Antonyan ) and with the team. In 1984 she won all four competitions, singles, doubles (with Narine Antonyan), mixed (with Jacques Secrétin ) and with the team. At the EM 1986 Popowa could only be used in a team because the federation had failed to register them for the individual competitions. She got her last European title in a team competition in 1988.
In 1992 Popova left Azerbaijan with her family because of the unrest there and moved to Slovakia in Bratislava. From the beginning of 1994 she was eligible to play for Slovakia. Here she won the 1996 Slovak championship in singles and doubles (with Zuzana Poliačková ).
Between 1977 and 2001 she took part in 13 world championships , five of them for Slovakia. She played the Olympic Games in 1988 for the USSR, in 1992 for the United Team and in 1996 for Slovakia.
In 2005 she was once again European champion in the singles over 40s.
In the 2000s she played in the Austrian Bundesliga, a. a. at the clubs SVS Niederösterreich , SV Schwechat and SCO Bodensdorf.
trainer
Popovová was the coach of the Slovak women's national team for the 2014 World Table Tennis Championships .
Valentina Popova is currently working as a junior coach at SVS Schwechat.
Private
Valentina Popovová graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Azerbaijan. She has been married to a journalist since 1985 and has a son (* 1985). She speaks German.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVK | European Championship | 1998 | Eindhoven | NED | Quarter finals | |||
| SVK | European Championship | 1994 | Birmingham | CLOSELY | last 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| EUN | European Championship | 1992 | Stuttgart | GER | Semifinals | |||
| URS | European Championship | 1990 | Gothenburg | SWE | Semifinals | |||
| URS | European Championship | 1988 | Paris | FRA | Semifinals | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | 1 |
| URS | European Championship | 1986 | Prague | TCH | 2 | |||
| URS | European Championship | 1984 | Moscow | URS | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
| URS | European Championship | 1982 | Budapest | HUN | Semifinals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| URS | European Championship | 1980 | Bern | SUI | gold | gold | 1 | |
| URS | European Championship | 1978 | Duisburg | FRG | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| URS | European Championship | 1976 | Prague | TCH | 1 | |||
| URS | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1975 | Zagreb | YUG | silver | 1 | ||
| URS | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1974 | Gopping | FRG | 1 | |||
| URS | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1978 | Barcelona | ESP | Semifinals | gold | 1 | |
| URS | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1977 | Vichy | FRA | silver | gold | ||
| URS | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1976 | Modling | AUT | silver | 1 | ||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1991 | Hertogenbosch | NED | 11 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1990 | Hanover | FRG | 5 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1989 | Charleroi | BEL | 8th | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1988 | Ljubljana | YUG | 10 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1987 | Basel | SUI | 7th | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1985 | Barcelona | ESP | 6th | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1984 | Bratislava | TCH | 3 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1983 | Cleveland | CLOSELY | 4th | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1982 | Nantes | FRA | 5 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1981 | Miskolc | HUN | 3 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1979 | Kristianstad | SWE | 5 | |||
| URS | EURO TOP12 | 1978 | Prague | TCH | 3 | |||
| SVK | Olympic games | 1996 | Atlanta | United States | immediately excluded | no participants | ||
| EUN | Olympic games | 1992 | Barcelona | ESP | immediately excluded | immediately excluded | ||
| EUN | Olympic games | 1992 | Barcelona | ESP | immediately excluded | immediately excluded | ||
| URS | Olympic games | 1988 | Seoul | COR | 6th | no participants | ||
| SVK | Pro tour | 1999 | Linz / Wels | AUT | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
| SVK | Pro tour | 1999 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| SVK | Pro tour | 1997 | Linz | AUT | Rd 1 | |||
| SVK | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 128 | last 32 | last 128 | 28 |
| SVK | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 13-16 | |||
| SVK | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | last 64 | last 32 | last 128 | |
| SVK | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | last 128 | last 64 | last 64 | 22nd |
| SVK | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 32 | last 32 | last 32 | 19th |
| URS | World Championship | 1991 | Chiba City | JPN | no participants | no participants | no participants | 8th |
| URS | World Championship | 1989 | Dortmund | FRG | last 32 | last 16 | last 128 | 9 |
| URS | World Championship | 1987 | New Delhi | IND | last 64 | last 16 | last 32 | 6th |
| URS | World Championship | 1985 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 32 | Quarter finals | last 64 | 5 |
| URS | World Championship | 1983 | Tokyo | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | last 16 | 4th |
| URS | World Championship | 1981 | Novi Sad | YUG | last 16 | last 16 | Agony | 4th |
| URS | World Championship | 1979 | Pyongyang | PRK | Quarter finals | last 16 | last 32 | 4th |
| URS | World Championship | 1977 | Birmingham | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 16 | last 16 | 6th |
| URS | World Doubles Cup | 1990 | Seoul | COR | 9 | |||
| URS | WTC World Team Cup | 1990 | Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig | JPN | 5 |
literature
- Eduard Frimerman: A queen, so completely without airs. Translated by Sigrid Müller. In: DTS magazine . 1984/8, pages 32-33
- Oliver Hartman: 14 years at the top. In: DTS magazine . 1990/3, page 12
Web links
- Valentina Popovová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait (Журнал "Настольный теннис", №1 2008 г., Russian) (accessed October 10, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/3 page 18
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/2 page 41
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/4 page 10
- ↑ Na MS družstiev šestica Slovákov vrátane Ódorovej (accessed on October 8, 2019)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/9 page 34
- ↑ Valentina Popovová Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popovová, Valentina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Попова, Валентина Ивановна (Russian); Popova, Valentina Ivanovna; Popova, Valentina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Slovak table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sumqayıt , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |