Laima Amelina

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Laima Balaišytė-Amelina 1971

Laima Amelina (born Balaišytė ; born January 3, 1948 in Vilnius ) is a former Lithuanian table tennis player . She took part in four world championships and one European championship in the 1960s . In 1969 she became team world champion in table tennis .

Some sources give a different date of birth, around March 1948.

Career

Laima Balaišytė is the daughter of the table tennis player and multiple Russian champion Bronė Balaišienė (1921–1983), b. Vitartaitė. She started playing table tennis when she was eight. In 1973 she graduated from the Sports Institute in Moscow .

Success in youth

She won many international medals at European Youth Championships. In 1961 and 1962 she won gold here with the team, in 1961 she reached the final in doubles and in 1962 she became European champion in singles. In 1965 she reached the semi-finals in singles, in doubles with Bella Anisimova she won silver.

Adults

In 1962 and 1964 Laima Balaišytė won the Russian national championship. At the World Championships in 1963 and 1965 , she did not come close to medal ranks. It was more successful in 1967 in the team competition, the team finished second behind Japan. In 1969 the Russian women's team became world champions.

Private

In the mid-1960s, Laima Balaišytė married the Russian table tennis international Anatoli Amelin . She has a daughter with him. Her brother Rimgaudas Balaiša is President of the Lithuanian Table Tennis Association ( Lietuvos stalo teniso federacija ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Results from the ITTF database ( memento of the original dated December 8, 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 December 8, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.old.ittf.com
  2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1961/15 Page 2
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1964/15 page 3
  4. ↑ a b Table Tennis magazine, May 1962, page 17 Online (accessed December 8, 2016)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1964/8 page 13
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1967/9 page 9
personal data
SURNAME Amelina, Laima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amelin, Laima; Balaišytė, Laima; Амелина, Лайма Леоновна
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius