Zoja Rudnova

Zoja Rudnova (19 August 1946 - 12 March 2014) was an international table tennis player from the former Soviet Union.

Zoja Rudnova
Personal information
Full name	RUDNOVA Zoja
Nationality	Soviet Union
Born	19.08.1946 Moscow
Died	12.03.2014 Moscow
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Soviet Union World Championships 1969 Munich Doubles 1969 Munich Team 1967 Stockholm Singles 1967 Stockholm Doubles 1967 Stockholm Mixed Doubles 1967 Stockholm Team European Championships 1976 Prague Mixed Doubles 1976 Prague Team 1974 Novi Sad Singles 1974 Novi Sad Doubles 1974 Novi Sad Mixed Doubles 1974 Novi Sad Team 1972 Rotterdam Singles 1972 Rotterdam Doubles 1972 Rotterdam Mixed Doubles 1970 Moscow Singles 1970 Moscow Doubles 1970 Moscow Mixed Doubles 1970 Moscow Team 1968 Lyon Singles 1968 Lyon Doubles 1968 Lyon Mixed Doubles 1968 Lyon Team 1964 Malmo Singles

Table tennis career

From 1964 to 1976 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1] She was twice European champion in women singles, three time European champion with the USSR team, once in women doubles and four times in mixed doubles. She was the first woman ever to become an absolute European champion in 1970 winning all four possible gold medals (singles, team, doubles, mixed doubles) - great feat which has only been repeated once since.

She was a member of USSR women team who won gold medal at 1969 World Championships[2][3] which was the only time USSR or Russia ever won gold medal as a team (she also has team silver medal from 1967 Worlds). She also has one of only two non-team world championship gold medals in table tennis ever won by USSR or Russia - in doubles in 1969 with Svetlana Grinberg.

She also won four English Open titles.

Zoja Rudnova died on 12 March 2014, at the age of 67.[4][5]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=6114
2. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
3. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
4. "Скончалась двукратная чемпионка мира и многократная чемпионка Европы по настольному теннису Зоя Руднова". Пресс-служба Москомспорта. 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
5. Ian Marshall (2014-03-12). "The Student who Became the Teacher, Zoja Rudnova Passes Away". ITTF official site. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-03-11.