Anatoly Nikolayevich Amelin

Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Amelin ( Russian Анатолий Николаевич Амелин ; born June 8, 1946 ) is a former Russian table tennis player . He had his best time in the 1960s, when he reached the final in doubles at a world championship .

Career

Amelin's first success was the nomination for the European Youth Championships in Bled in 1962, where he finished second in the singles behind Dorin Giurgiucă and won the title with the Russian team.

From 1963 to 1970 he took part in three European championships and four world championships . At all European championships he reached the semifinals in at least two disciplines: 1966 in singles and doubles with Stanislaw Gomoskow , 1968 in doubles with Gomoskow and mixed with Swetlana Grinberg and 1970 in doubles with Gomoskow and mixed with Grinberg. He also finished second with the Russian team in 1966 and 1968.

At the 1967 World Cup he was runner-up in doubles. With Stanislaw Gomoskow he lost the final against the Swedes Hans Alsér / Kjell Johansson . Mixed with Soja Rudnowa , he reached the semifinals. In 1969 he failed with the same doubles partner in the semifinals.

In 1996, 2002, 2004 and 2006 he was senior world champion in doubles with Dragutin Šurbek , and in 1998 with Herbert Neubauer .

author

After the end of his career, Amelin wrote books about table tennis.

• Amelin / Paschin: Азбука спорта: настольный теннис (Sport ABC: Table Tennis), 1999, ISBN 5-278-00692-7
• Amelin: Настольный теннис: 6 + 12 (table tennis: 6 + 12), year: 2005, ISBN 5-278-00776-1

Private

In the mid-1960s he married the Lithuanian table tennis player Laima Balaišytė (* 1948). He has a daughter with her.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	competition	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
URS	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS	last 16	Semifinals	Semifinals
URS	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Semifinals	Semifinals	2
URS	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	Semifinals	Semifinals		2
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1962	Bled	YUG	silver
URS	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 16	Semifinals	last 16	8th
URS	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	silver	Semifinals	6th
URS	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 32	last 16	last 32	8th
URS	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 64	last 32	last 128	13

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait (Russian) (accessed October 1, 2018)
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1967/9 page 9
3. ↑ Anatoli Nikolajewitsch Amelin Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)

Web links

• Results of the European Championships for adults (accessed on January 11, 2016)
• European Youth Championships (accessed January 7, 2016)