The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 15th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Austria, and Portugal.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dimitrij Ovtcharov (b. 1988)
With an HPI of 51.19, Dimitrij Ovtcharov is the most famous Ukrainian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born. Since 2008, Ovtcharov has won a total of two silver and four bronze medals at the Olympics, making him second most decorated male Olympian in the table tennis category in terms of the number of medals awarded. Ranked first January to February 2018, he is ranked ninth in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) as of November 2022.
2. Galia Dvorak (b. 1988)
With an HPI of 29.56, Galia Dvorak is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 9 different languages.
Galyna Volodymyrivna "Galia" Dvorak Khasanova (Ukrainian: Галина Володимирівна Дворжака Хасанова; born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish table tennis player. She was born in Kyiv, but her family moved to Spain when she was two. Both of her parents (Vladimir Dvorak and Flora Khasanova) were also international table tennis players. She won a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy. As of May 2019, Dvorak is ranked no. 94 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). 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. She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip. 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. 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. 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). At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's singles only. She was a replacement for the injured French player Carole Grundisch. She lost to home player Lin Gui in her first match.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Ukrainian table tennis players born between 1988 and 1988. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ukrainian table tennis players include Dimitrij Ovtcharov, and Galia Dvorak. As of April 2024, 1 new Ukrainian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Galia Dvorak.
