Galia Dvorak

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Volodymyrivna and the family name is Dvorak.
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Dvorak and the second or maternal family name is Khasanova.
Galia Dvorak
Full name Galyna Volodymyrivna
Dvorak Khasanova
Nationality  Spain
Residence Barcelona, Spain
Born (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Playing style Right-handed, classic[1]
Highest ranking 72 (February 2010)[2]
Current ranking 119 (September 2015)[2]
Club CN Mataró[1]
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Competitor for  Spain
European Championships
2013 Schwechat Doubles
Mediterranean Games
2009 Pescara Team

Galyna Volodymyrivna "Galia" Dvorak Khasanova (Ukrainian: Галина Володимирівна Дворжака Хасанова; born April 1, 1988 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-born Spanish table tennis player.[3][4] She won a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.[5] As of February 2013, Dvorak is ranked no. 125 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).[2] Dvorak is a member of the table tennis team for CN Mataró, and is coached and trained by Peter Engel, Linus Mernsten, and her mother Flora Khasanova.[1][3] She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip.[1][3]

Dvorak made her official debut, as a 20-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed only in the inaugural women's team event. Playing with Chinese emigrants Shen Yanfei and Zhu Fang, Dvorak placed third in the preliminary pool round, with a total of four points, two defeats from Japan and South Korea, and a single victory over the Australian trio Miao Miao, Jian Fang Lay, and Stephanie Sang Xu.[6][7][8]

Four years after competing in her first Olympics, Dvorak qualified for her second Spanish team, as a 24-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by receiving an allocation spot from the Final World Qualifying Tournament in Doha, Qatar.[9][10][11] With a maximum of two quotas per nation in the singles tournament, Dvorak accepted the third spot, and thereby competed only in the women's team event, along with her fellow players Sara Ramírez and Shen Yanfei. Dvorak and her team lost the first round match to the formidable Chinese trio Li Xiaoxia, Guo Yue, and Ding Ning, with a unanimous set score of 0–3 (4–11, 7–11, 12–14).[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ITTF World Player Profile – Galia Dvorak". ITTF. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "ITTF World Ranking – Galia Dvorak". ITTF. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Galia Dvorak". London 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Galia Dvorak". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sara Ramírez dóna el bronze a la selecció espanyola" [Sara Ramírez takes bronze for the Spanish team] (in Catalan). Esport Català. 1 July 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Women's Team Group D (KOR–ESP)". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Women's Team Group D (JPN–ESP)". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "Women's Team Group D (ESP–AUS)". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Players Qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games – Women" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Galia Dvorak and Sara Ramirez Spark Spanish Celebrations in Doha". ITTF. 12 May 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  11. ↑ "Olympic table tennis field nearly complete". NBC Olympics. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Women's Team First Round". London 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.

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