Svetlana Ganina

Svetlana Grigoryevna Ganina (Russian Светлана Григорьевна Ганина; born July 11, 1978 in Gorky ) is a Russian table tennis player. She is European Champion in doubles.

Achievements

Ganina is defensive player. She took at European Youth Championships eight medals:

From 1999 to 2008 she participated four times in European and nine times at the World Championships. In addition, she qualified twice for participating in the Olympic Games.

2007 Ganina became European Champion in doubles together with Viktoriya Pavlovich. In the years before she had been three times reached the double semi-final: 2002, 2003 and 2005 with Irina Palina. In 2007, she took another silver in the Russian women's team.

Your biggest success at the World Championships, she recorded in 2003 when she reached the quarterfinals in doubles with Irina Palina.

Ganina took part in Athens at the 2004 Olympic Games. In individual she reached the round of 32 and lost there against Lau Sui Fei from Hong Kong. With her ​​partner Palina she lost in the second round against the pairing Tie Yana and Song Ah Sim, also from Hong Kong.

Germany

In 1996 Ganina the Hungarian club in the German Bundesliga Postas Budapest to SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen. In 2001 she moved to TuS Bad Driburg where she remained until 2005. Then she left Germany towards Vladivostok ( Russia). 2013, it undertook the second Bundesliga club TTC Wendelstein (formerly TSV Röthenbach ).

Results from the ITTF database