Henriette Lotaller

Henriette Lotaller (* 1954 ) is a Hungarian table tennis player who became European champion in doubles in 1972 and 1974.

Career

Henriette Lotaller achieved her first international success at the European Youth Championships, where she won doubles together with Eszther Juhos in 1970 and made it to the semi-finals in 1971.

With the adults she formed a successful double with her partner Judit Magos . She won several titles at the Hungarian National Championships : 1973, 1974 and 1976 in singles and 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1975 in doubles. With the women's team from Statisztika Budapest , she was Hungarian team champion nine times in a row from 1968 to 1976 and won the European Cup in 1971 and 1972 .

The doubles with Judit Magos won the title at the European Championships in 1972 and 1974 , with the Hungarian national team she was European champion in 1972 and second in 1974. Lotaller was nominated twice for world championships , where she came fourth in team competition in 1973 and 1975 . In 1975 she took third place at the European ranking tournament TOP-12 .

She took part in the International German Championships several times. Here she reached the final in doubles in 1973/74, which was lost to Maria Alexandru / Miho Hamada (Romania / Japan). In the mixed with Gábor Gergely she was fourth in 1971/72.

In the ITTF world rankings , Lotaller was ranked 23rd in mid-1975. In 1976, she ended her active career because of a vertebral injury.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG		gold		2
HUN	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	gold		1
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1971	East End	BEL	Semifinals
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1970	Teeside	CLOSELY		gold
HUN	EURO TOP12	1976	Lübeck	FRG	Scratched
HUN	EURO TOP12	1975	Vienna	AUT	3
HUN	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 16	last 32	last 16	4th
HUN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 32	last 16	Agony	4th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/2 p. 18
2. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 136-137
3. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( 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 October 24, 2011)  
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/22 p. 21
5. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from August 17, 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 October 24, 2011)