Table Tennis - POLCANOVA Sofia vs MITTELHAM Nina - Women's Singles Gold Medal Match Results

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Women's Singles Gold Medal Match - Match 163

POLCANOVA Sofia POLCANOVA S

MITTELHAM Nina MITTELHAM N

Referees/Judges
Function	Name
Umpire	CZE KLECKER RKLECKER Roman
Umpire	LUX PIERRET PPIERRET Pol

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POLCANOVA SPOLCANOVA Sofia

On winning gold after opponent Nina Mittelham (GER) had to pull out with an injury:

"It’s a very sad situation. I don’t have words for Nina. This is unbelievable.
To give up in the final, I would be so broken. Of course I didn’t want to win like this. I think that I deserve to win but this win is not as beautiful as I had imagined."

On her emotions:
"I told myself yesterday that I would cry today, either if I lose or if I win, because this week was such a crazy week where I played 15 matches in total and every match was on the edge and I am super empty. My emotions are running so high, I don’t know what to think."

On receiving the gold medal:
"I still can’t believe it. Now I have more happy emotions than before and I’m like ”wow”. Unbelievable. I’m very happy, very emotional and want to thank everybody for the support."

On her journey to become European champion:
"I have been fighting for and dreaming about this so much. In 2018 I was bronze medallist and thought to myself ’OK, next time I want to get a gold medal’, but two years later I was injured so I didn’t play at my best. Now, four years later, I am just so happy."

GER

MITTELHAM NMITTELHAM Nina

On having to withdraw from the gold medal match with an injury:

"I don’t know what I should say. You’re in the final and you want to go for the gold medal and from the beginning you feel that it’s not possible."I feel sad, I could also have lost the match but to end it like this is not nice."

On whether she can appreciate the silver medal:
"Right now it feels really hard to be happy about my silver but in a tournament like this it is a long way to the final and if you then make it to the final and have a chance to win gold but can’t compete anymore, it feels much worse.
"Right now it’s really difficult but I think that maybe in the future I can be proud of it. To play this competition at home with so much pressure, from the crowd, from yourself (and win silver). Maybe in one, two or three weeks I will smile (about it)."

On the injury:
"It just hit into my arm and then I felt that I couldn’t really play and strike the ball hard."At the end I just had very little feeling in my arm because of the injury. I couldn’t get enough power into my game. It’s just annoying that it happened to me."