Jitka Karlíková

Jitka Karlíková (born February 9, 1947 in Litomyšl ) is a Czechoslovak table tennis player who became European champion in doubles in 1968.

Career

Jitka Karlíková was trained by her father Jaroslav Karlík together with her sister Jarmila (now Jarmila Hummelová-Karlíková), who was born in 1944. In 1960 the Litomyšl family moved to Prague. In the mid-1960s, Jitka Karlíková played together with her sister Jarmila at the Spartak Sokolovo Prague club.

From 1963 to 1969 Jitka Karlíková took part in four world championships . It came in 1969 in doubles with Ilona Voštová to the semi-finals. With the Czechoslovak women's team, she finished fourth in 1967 and 1969.

She was nominated four times for European championships . Here she won gold in doubles with Marta Lužová in 1968, and silver in the team competition two years later . With the same doubles partner, she won the 1967/68 International German Championships.

In the ITTF world rankings , Karlíková was ranked 24th in December 1968. After 1972 she no longer appeared internationally as a competitive athlete.

Jitka Karlíková married the table tennis player and functionary Karel Nykl sen. Her son's name is also Karel and he plays table tennis. Under the name Jitka Nyklová , she won the senior European championship in 1997 in the age group 50+ in singles and doubles with her sister Jarmila Hummelova.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TCH	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED		Quarter finals
TCH	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS				2
TCH	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA		gold
TCH	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY			Quarter finals
TCH	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 64	Semifinals	last 16	4th
TCH	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 16	last 16	4th
TCH	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 64	last 32	last 64	7th
TCH	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 32	last 64	last 64	9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jarmila Hummelova-Karlikova ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2011 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 October 24, 2011)  
2. ↑ Zpravodaj Města Litomyšle 11/2009 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 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.  
3. ↑ Litomyšl se bavila stolním tenisem
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/2 p. 15
5. ↑ 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 , p. 136
6. ↑ 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)  
7. ↑ Jitka Nyklová-Karlíková with illustration (Czech)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 24, 2011)  
8. ↑ Among the audience were the stars Ilona Uhlíková-Voštová and Jitka Karlíková, the mother of the table tennis player Karel Nykl junior. (Czech) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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) 
9. ↑ Senior European Championship 1997  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 24, 2011)  
10. ↑ Jitka Karlíková Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 24, 2011)

Web links

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