The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 1 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 27th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Poland, and Hong Kong.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Russian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Alexey Smirnov (b. 1977)
With an HPI of 41.73, Alexey Smirnov is the most famous Russian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Alexey Smirnov (born October 9, 1977) is a male table tennis player from Russia. Since 2003 he won several medals in doubles events in the Table Tennis European Championships. He also won the gold medal at the Europe Top-12 in 2005 at Rennes. He is also a multiple Russian national champion – four times in Men Singles and five in Men Doubles. He was also part of the winning cadet European Youth Championship team in 1992, as well as being the winner of the men's singles, the men's doubles and the mixed doubles at the junior level at the 1995 European Youth Championships. He also won the junior men's doubles at the 1994 European Youth Championships. In May 2011 he qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games via his world ranking for June 2011. He reached the last 32 where he was beaten by Jiang Tianyi. The Russian men's team lost to the eventual winners, China, in the first round.
2. Kirill Skachkov (b. 1987)
With an HPI of 30.83, Kirill Skachkov is the 2nd most famous Russian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 9 different languages.
Kirill Sergeyevich Skachkov (Russian: Кирилл Сергеевич Скачков; born 6 August 1987 in Novokuznetsk) is a Russian table tennis player. In 2011 he won a silver medal in the doubles event in the Table Tennis European Championships. He was part of the Russian men's team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Russian table tennis players born between 1977 and 1987. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Russian table tennis players include Alexey Smirnov, and Kirill Skachkov. As of April 2024, 1 new Russian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Alexey Smirnov.
