Margaryta Pesotska

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 Kyiv, Ukraine
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

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

Career

She 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. Margaryta 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.

Margaryta 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.

Margaryta is also 2015 European championships bronze medalist in women's team competition.

Personal life

She graduated from National Pedagogical Dragomanov University.

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

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