The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 9th most number of Table Tennis Players behind North Korea and Romania.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Vladimir Samsonov (1976 - )
With an HPI of 45.93, Vladimir Samsonov is the most famous Belarusian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Vladimir Samsonov or Uladzimir Samsonau (Belarusian: Уладзімір Віктаравіч Самсонаў, Russian: Владимир Викторович Самсонов, born 17 April 1976) is a Belarusian former professional table tennis player. He is known in China as the "Tai Chi Master" because of his superb all-around style, both offensive and defensive. Samsonov competed at six consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2016, placing fourth individually in 2016, in addition to equal fifth in 1996 and 2000.
2. Viktoria Pavlovich (1978 - )
With an HPI of 30.59, Viktoria Pavlovich is the 2nd most famous Belarusian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Viktoria Pavlovich (Belarusian: Вікторыя Уладзіміраўна Паўловіч; Łacinka: Viktoryja Uładzimiraŭna Paŭłovič; born 8 May 1978) is a Belarusian table tennis player who plays for Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahçe SK. She won the women's singles at the 2010 and 2012 European Championships. She was born in Minsk, and resides there. Her twin sister Veronika Pavlovich is an Olympic table tennis player as well. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She competed in both singles and doubles in 2004. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she reached the fourth round.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as table tennis players born between 1976 and 1978. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living table tennis players include Vladimir Samsonov and Viktoria Pavlovich.
