Margarita Vladimirovna Pesotskaya ( Ukrainian Margarita Volodimirіvna Pesotsky ; born August 9, 1991 , Kiev ) is a Ukrainian athlete, table tennis player , international master of sports of Ukraine .
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| Citizenship |  Ukraine |
| Date of Birth | August 9, 1991 (28 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
| Place of residence | Kiev , Ukraine |
| Trainer | Margarita Pesotskaya Sr. |
| Game hand | right |
| Grasp | european |
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| Highest ITTF Position | 40 (May 2014) |
Silver ( 2009 , 2018 ) and bronze ( 2011 ) medalist of the European Championships in singles. Bronze medalist of the European Championship 2015 in the national team of Ukraine [2] , champion and medalist of the championships of Ukraine . 8-time European champion among cadets ( 2004 , 2006 ) and juniors ( 2008 , 2009 ).
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In juniors and cadets
Margarita was born in a sports family (mother - Margarita Pesotskaya Sr.). Rita started playing table tennis from the age of three in Poland , where her mother was playing at that time. First, in Krakow, she beat her peers. At the age of 7, she became the champion of Poland among mini-cadets, winning many children's tournaments. At 10, the family returned to Kiev . Margarita wins the Ukrainian championships three times in a row in her age category. At 11, Margarita becomes a master of sports and makes her international debut in Moscow at the Cadet European Championship. In 2004, he won a pair at the European Cadet Championship in Budapest . In 2005 in Ostrava receives silver in a mixed double. In 2006, in Sarajevo Margarita won 3 gold medals: single, pair and team. Now she is already a junior and in 2008 in Ternia repeats the success of 2006 , but now at the European Championship among juniors she won three gold medals (single, couple and team). At sixteen, Margarita receives the title of master of sports of international class . In 2009 Margarita defended her title in Prague .
In professionals
From the age of 14, Margarita has been a member of the adult national team of Ukraine. In 2006 Margarita entered the first line of the Ukrainian rating. [3] Since 2006, as a member of the Ukrainian national team, she has been performing at adult European and world championships. In 2008, Margarita became a participant in the Beijing Olympic Games . In the first round in 5 games, Pesotskaya lost to Zhu Fan from Spain.
In October 2009, a couple of months after winning the Prague Junior European Championship in Prague, Margarita went to the adult European Championship in Stuttgart . Here she makes a sensation: having walked along almost all the strongest rivals (14, 20, 5, 1, 10) [4] she stops one step away from repeating the achievement of the junior championship. Margarita wins the silver medal in singles and becomes the youngest medalist in the history of European championships [5] . This medal became the first medal for independent Ukraine in official table tennis competitions among adults.
In 2011, Margarita won the bronze medal in singles at the European Championships in Sopot - Gdansk [6] . In 2012, the athlete participates in the Olympic Games in London . In singles in the third round, Pesotskaya lost in 4 games to 39-year-old Li Jiao from the Netherlands.
In 2014, in an interview, Margarita said that she refused the Russian citizenship offered to her [7] .
Club career
She played for the Alchevsk club Donbass-ShVSM, with whom she became the champion of Ukraine [8] . In the 2009 season , Margarita played for the Russian club Dalenergosetproekt from Vladivostok . In its composition in 2009, she won the silver medal of the Russian Championship, the Cup of Russia and the bronze medal of the European Champions League [9] . In 2010, as part of the same Dalenergosetproekt, he became the winner of the Russian team championship. And in 2011, as part of the already Moscow club "Victoria" became the owner of a silver medal in the championship of Russia. In the 2011/12 season, Margarita won the silver medal of the ETTU Cup as part of the Dalenergosetproekt team .
Miscellaneous
- graduated from the Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after MP Drahomanov with a degree in English Philology [7]
- Margarita Pesotskaya uses Tibhar's inventory: left / right pads - tibhar sinus soft; base is tibhar balsa.
- In 2015, she married Andrei Bratko
Achievements
- 8 gold medals of the European Championships among cadets and juniors
- Silver medalist of the European Championship 2009
- Bronze medalist of the European Championship 2011
- Participant in the Beijing 2008 Olympics
- Participant in the London 2012 Olympics
Notes
- ↑ Singles victories in ITTF sponsored competitions: World Cup, World Cup, ITTF World Tour , ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
- ↑ Zhіnocha zbіrna Ukrainy z nastіlnogo tenisu - bronze medalist of the first Europe (Ukrainian) . champion.com.ua (September 28, 2015). Date of treatment March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Statistics of Ukrainian table tennis (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Numbers of seeded participants, see "Tennis Encyclopedia"
- ↑ Eugene Sivy. PESOTSKAYA: “The Chinese syndrome is almost over” . football.sport.ua (2009).
- ↑ Margarita Pesotskaya - bronze medalist of the European Table Tennis Championship - Tennis - “SportOnline.ua”
- ↑ 1 2 The leader of Ukrainian table tennis was offered Russian citizenship . xsport.ua (April 27, 2014). Date of treatment September 28, 2015.
- ↑ News :: Ukraine Tennis Federation of Ukraine :: Ukraine Table Tennis Federation (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment November 8, 2009. Archived October 1, 2008.
- ↑ What's New :: Ukrainian Tennis Federation of Ukraine :: Ukraine Table Tennis Federation Archived on March 8, 2014.
Links
- Statistics at www.ittf.com
- Pesotsky's rating at www.ittf.com
- "The Master and Margarita"
- 18-year-old Margarita Pesotskaya entered the first hundred of the world ranking for October
- 12/06/2007 - Burov and Pesotskaya won the 18th Finnish Open Table Tennis Championship Table Tennis, RUSTT.ru
- 12/26/2008 - Pesotskaya again refused to perform in the youth European Top 10 table tennis Table tennis, RUSTT.ru