Zoja Rudnova

Zoja Rudnova
Full name	RUDNOVA Zoja
Nationality	Soviet Union
Medal record Women's table tennis Competitor for  Soviet Union World Championships Gold 1969 Munich Doubles Gold 1969 Munich Team Bronze 1967 Stockholm Singles Bronze 1967 Stockholm Doubles Bronze 1967 Stockholm Mixed Doubles Silver 1967 Stockholm Team European Championships Bronze 1976 Prague Mixed Doubles Gold 1976 Prague Team Bronze 1974 Novi Sad Singles Bronze 1974 Novi Sad Doubles Gold 1974 Novi Sad Mixed Doubles Gold 1974 Novi Sad Team Gold 1972 Rotterdam Singles Bronze 1972 Rotterdam Doubles Gold 1972 Rotterdam Mixed Doubles Gold 1970 Moscow Singles Gold 1970 Moscow Doubles Gold 1970 Moscow Mixed Doubles Gold 1970 Moscow Team Silver 1968 Lyon Singles Silver 1968 Lyon Doubles Gold 1968 Lyon Mixed Doubles Silver 1968 Lyon Team Bronze 1964 Malmo Singles

Zoja Rudnova is a former female table tennis player from Soviet Union. 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 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.

See also

• List of table tennis players

References

v t e Table tennis in the Russia Organization Table Tennis Association Notable players Fliura Bulatova Oksana Fadeyeva Tatiana Ferdman Svetlana Ganina Stanislav Gomozkov Svetlana Grinberg Galina Melnik Irina Palina Valentina Popova Rita Pogosova Zoja Rudnova Alexey Smirnov Elena Timina List of table tennis players