Ilona Uhlíková

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Ilona Uhlíková , b. Voštová (born April 9, 1954 in Stod ) is a Czechoslovak table tennis player . In the late 1960s and early 1970s she was considered one of the strongest players in the world. In 1968 she became European women's champion in Lyon, and she also won ten European youth championships. She first won the title among adults and only two years later the title among youth.

Private

She learned the ABC of table tennis in Marienbad from her father Rudolf Vošta. In 1968 she moved to Prague, where she first played for a year at Stadion Žižkov and was coached there by Zdeňek Šauer. She then moved to Rostislav Koudelka and competed for Start Prague.

Ilona Voštová achieved her greatest success before 1973. In that year she married and moved to Vlašim , in early 1974 her daughter Marcela was born. After a break she started again under the name Ilona Uhliková with competitive sports . In reports she is often listed under the double name Voštová-Uhliková or Uhliková-Voštová . Uhlíková is still active in table tennis and has played for the TTC Tiefenlauter in the Bavarian League North from 1991 until today (2007).

Success in youth

Already in 1966 - at the age of 11 - Voštová surprised at the CSSR championship of adults, where she reached third place in the individual. From 1966 to 1971 she participated in all European youth championships . At her first European Championship, she reached the final in a mixed with Antonín Dvořák. In total, she was able to win 22 medals there, including 11 titles: 1970 and 1971 in singles, 1969 in doubles with Alica Grofová , 1967, 1968, 1970 and 1971 with the team and in mixed 1967 (with Jiří Turai), 1968 (with Jiří Turai ), 1969 (with Jiří Turai) and 1970 (with Milan Orlowski ). She was second in 1967 and 1968 in singles and in 1969 in doubles with Alica Grofová.

European championships

From 1968 Voštová also competed in the European Championships for adults. In 1968 she was European champion in individual singles in Lyon; in the final she defeated the Russian Soja Rudnowa . At the age of 14 she was the youngest ever European champion.

Two years later it came again to the final Voštová against Rudnowa in Moscow. But this time the Russian won, Voštová came second. In mixed with Milan Orlowski , she lost the final in 1976, and in 1980 they won this competition. She also won silver with the team in 1970 and 1978.

World championships

From 1967 to 1981 Voštová was represented at six world championships . The best placings were the semi-finals in singles in 1971 and the semi-finals in doubles in 1969 (with Jitka Karlíková ).

More Achievements

At the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 Voštová came in 1971 and 1976 in second place and in 1973 and 1977 in third place. In 1971 she was led in first place in the European rankings .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH European Championship 1980 Bern SUI Semifinals Quarter finals gold
TCH European Championship 1978 Duisburg FRG Quarter finals Semifinals 2
TCH European Championship 1976 Prague TCH Quarter finals silver
TCH European Championship 1972 Rotterdam NED Semifinals Quarter finals Semifinals
TCH European Championship 1970 Moscow URS silver Quarter finals 2
TCH European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA gold Quarter finals
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1971 East End BEL gold gold 1
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1970 Teeside CLOSELY gold gold 1
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1969 Obertraun AUT Semifinals silver gold
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1968 Leningrad URS silver gold 1
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1967 Vejle THE silver gold 1
TCH European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1966 Szombathely HUN silver
TCH EURO TOP12 1982 Nantes FRA 12
TCH EURO TOP12 1981 Miskolc HUN 5
TCH EURO TOP12 1980 Munich FRG 4th
TCH EURO TOP12 1979 Kristianstad SWE Scratched
TCH EURO TOP12 1978 Prague TCH 4th
TCH EURO TOP12 1977 Sarajevo YUG 3
TCH EURO TOP12 1976 Lübeck FRG 2
TCH EURO TOP12 1973 Boeblingen FRG 3
TCH EURO TOP12 1971 Zadar YUG 2
TCH World Championship 1981 Novi Sad YUG last 16 last 64 last 32 10
TCH World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK last 16 last 16 last 16 7th
TCH World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY last 16 last 16 Quarter finals 10
TCH World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN Semifinals last 16 last 16 4th
TCH World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 32 Semifinals Quarter finals 4th
TCH World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 32 last 64 4th

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Individual evidence

  1. DTS magazine , 1992/8 regional / south p. 3
  2. DTS magazine , 1966/9 p. 28
  3. Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/06 (accessed on March 16, 2011; PDF; 3.8 MB)
  4. Ilona Uhlíková Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 16, 2011)