Ilona Uhlíková
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 |
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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 |
swell
- Jaroslav Staněk : Return of the Prodigal Daughter , DTS magazine , 1976/6 p. 31
- Website of the ETTU Archives - Eur. Youth Championships
- Czech
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/8 regional / south p. 3
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/9 p. 28
- ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/06 (accessed on March 16, 2011; PDF; 3.8 MB)
- ↑ Ilona Uhlíková Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 16, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Uhlíková, Ilona |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voštová, Ilona |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stod , Czechoslovakia |