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Dimitrij Ovtcharov

1988 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Dimitrij Ovtcharov is the 30th most popular table tennis player (down from 26th in 2024), the 990th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 933rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Table Tennis Player.

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

Among table tennis players, Dimitrij Ovtcharov ranks 30 out of 107. Before him are Yoo Nam-kyu, Wang Liqin, Gábor Gergely, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Erik Lindh, and Kong Linghui. After him are Deng Yaping, Joo Sae-hyuk, Wang Hao, Zhang Yining, Zhang Jike, and Li Bun-hui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Dimitrij Ovtcharov ranks 175. Before him are Brady Corbet, He Pingping, Noémie Merlant, Uee, Regé-Jean Page, and Nadine Sierra. After him are Jeff Teague, Michael Cera, Wilfried Bony, Steven R. McQueen, Tomás Rincón, and Capri Anderson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Dimitrij Ovtcharov ranks 990 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleh Luzhny (1968), Igors Rausis (1961), Andriy Husin (1972), Alexander Belostenny (1959), Vadym Prystaiko (1970), and Sergei Yuran (1969). After him are Viktor Pasulko (1961), Natasha Yarovenko (1979), Taisia Povaliy (1964), Viktor Skrypnyk (1969), Oleh Lyashko (1972), and Vitaliy Zakharchenko (1963).

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among table tennis players born in Ukraine, Dimitrij Ovtcharov ranks 1. After him are Galia Dvorak (1988).

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