Georgina Póta
Encyclopedia
Georgina Póta is a Hungarian table tennis
player.
She won gold medal in the team competition at the 2007 Table Tennis European Championships
in Belgrade
, silver medal in women's doubles and bronze medal in mixed doubles.
She also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
, where she was knocked out in the third round by Wang Nan of China
who later managed to win the silver medal.
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
player.
She won gold medal in the team competition at the 2007 Table Tennis European Championships
Table Tennis European Championships
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in Belgrade
Belgrade
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, silver medal in women's doubles and bronze medal in mixed doubles.
She also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
Beijing
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, where she was knocked out in the third round by Wang Nan of China
China
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who later managed to win the silver medal.