Margaryta Pesotska

Ukrainian table tennis player

Margaryta Pesotska

Margaryta Pesotska at the 2011 European Championships

Personal information

Full name

Margaryta Volodymyrivna Pesotska

Nationality

Ukraine

Born

(1991-08-09) 9 August 1991 (age 32)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

Height

175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

68 kg (150 lb)

Medal record

Women's table tennis

Representing Ukraine
European Championships
	2009 Stuttgart	Singles
	2018 Alicante	Singles
	2011 Gdańsk–Sopot	Singles
	2015 Yekaterinburg	Team
	2020 Warsaw	Singles

Margaryta Volodymyrivna Pesotska (Ukrainian: Маргарита Володимирівна Песоцька; born 9 August 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian table tennis player.

Career

Pesotska competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the first round of the singles competition.^[1] She won the silver medal in singles event at the Table Tennis European Championships in 2009.^[2] Two years later she repeated her success by winning bronze at the 2011 European Championships. Next European-level success in the singles event came in 2018 when she reached finals at the European championships.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the third round of the singles competition. Pesotska was also expected to participate at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was even granted an invitation but she withdrew from the Games due to injury.

Pesotska competed at the 2015 European Games where she lost in the quarterfinals in singles event and finished 4th in team event where Ukraine lost in bronze medal match to the Czech Republic. Pesotska is also 2015 European championships bronze medalist in women's team competition.

In March 2021, Pesotska played in WTT Doha. In the WTT Contender event, she upset eighth seed Adriana Diaz in the round of 32 but lost to Xiaona Shan in the round of 16.^[3] However, she was in turn upset by breakout star Shin Yubin in the round of 32 of the WTT Star Contender Event.^[4] In June, at the delayed 2020 European Championships, Pesotska won a bronze medal in the women's singles.^[5] At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she was defeated by India's Manika Batra in the second round.

Personal life

She graduated from National Pedagogical Dragomanov University.

On 27 June 2015, she married her boyfriend Andrii Bratko.

References

^ "2008 Olympic profile at beijing2008.cn". Archived from the original on September 2, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
^ "WTT Doha Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Preview". edgesandnets.com. 2021-03-03. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
^ "Top 6 Storylines Following Round of 32 At WTT Star Contender". edgesandnets.com. 2021-03-10. Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
^ "ETTU.org - Petrissa SOLJA is crowned champion in Singles and in Doubles in Warsaw". www.ettu.org (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-14.