Eleonora Vlaicov

Eleonora Vlaicov , married. Eleonora Mihalca , (* 1945 ) is a former Romanian table tennis player . In the 1960s and early 1970s she was one of the top table tennis players in Romania and took part in six world championships , where she won two silver medals in 1969. She recorded numerous successes in doubles with Maria Alexandru .

Career

Eleonora Vlaicov married in the early 1970s and then appeared under the name Mihalca or Vlaicov-Mihalca .

She first appeared internationally in 1962 when she made it to the finals at the European Youth Championships in Bled with Mariana Jeandrescu.

In the period from 1966 to 1968 she was Romanian champion five times, in 1969 in singles, from 1966 to 1968 three times in doubles with Maria Alexandru and in 1968 in mixed with Adalbert Rethi . She won 15 gold medals at Balkan Championships. From 1963 to 1973 she took part in six world championships . In 1969 she reached the final in doubles with Maria Alexandru, and she was also runner-up with the team.

At the European Championships she reached the semi-finals in doubles in 1968 and 1974, in 1968 with Maria Alexandru, in 1974 with Magdalena Leszay.

Her best place in the ITTF world rankings was 12th in mid-1969.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1972	Ankara	DOOR	Semifinals			1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1969	Athens	GRE	silver	gold		1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1968	Skopje	YUG	gold	gold	gold	1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1967	Antalya	DOOR	Semifinals	gold	silver	1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1966	Brasov	ROU	gold	gold		1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1965	Sofia	BUL	Semifinals			1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1964	Athens	GRE	gold			1
ROU	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG		Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY		Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1962	Bled	YUG		silver
ROU	EURO TOP12	1972	Zagreb	YUG	12
ROU	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	last 32	last 16	6th
ROU	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 64	last 16	last 32	6th
ROU	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Quarter finals	silver	last 64	2
ROU	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 16	last 128	6th
ROU	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 32	last 32	Agony	4th
ROU	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 128	last 32	last 32

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Romanian Championships: Women's Singles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2016). 
2. ↑ Romanian Championships: Ladies Doubles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2016). 
3. ↑ Romanian Championships: Mixed ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2016). 
4. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ITTF world rankings ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2016).  
5. ^ Eleonora Vlaicov results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed July 11, 2016).

Web links

• Portrait (with picture) on page 1271 (Romanian) (accessed July 11, 2016)