Biography.guide
Home › People › Table tennis player › Zoja Rudnova
Portrait of Zoja Rudnova

Zoja Rudnova

1946 – 2014

Soviet table tennis player

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Zoja Rudnova

Lived 1946 – 2014 (aged 67). Zoja Rudnova was a Russian table tennis player.

Zoja Rudnova (19 August 1946 – 12 March 2014) was an international table tennis player from the former Soviet Union.

Table tennis career From 1964 to 1976 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships. She was twice European champion in women singles, three time European champion with the USSR team, once in women doubles and four times in mixed doubles. She was the first woman ever to become an absolute European champion in 1970 winning all four possible gold medals (singles, team, doubles, mixed doubles) - great feat which has only been repeated once since.

She was a member of USSR women team who won gold medal at 1969 World Championships which was the only time USSR or Russia ever won gold medal as a team (she also has team silver medal from 1967 Worlds). She also has one of only two non-team world championship gold medals in table tennis ever won by USSR or Russia - in doubles in 1969 with Svetlana Grinberg.

She also won four English Open titles.

Zoja Rudnova died on 12 March 2014, at the age of 67.

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Awards
Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR; ETTU Hall of Fame

People in Zoja Rudnova's life

Named in this biography and alive at the same time

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Zoja Rudnova's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Zoja Rudnova?

Soviet table tennis player

When was Zoja Rudnova born?

Zoja Rudnova was born on 19 August 1946 in Moscow.

When did Zoja Rudnova die?

Zoja Rudnova died on 12 March 2014 in Moscow.

What was Zoja Rudnova's occupation?

Zoja Rudnova was a table tennis player.

What nationality was Zoja Rudnova?

Zoja Rudnova was Russian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Zoja Rudnova

· Wikidata: Q456269

· DBpedia: Zoja Rudnova

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Zoja Rudnova. https://biography.guide/zoja-rudnova/

MLA: "Zoja Rudnova." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/zoja-rudnova/.

Chicago: "Zoja Rudnova." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/zoja-rudnova/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:25 UTC