Lisa Lomas

Lisa Lomas , b. Bellinger (born March 9, 1967 in Dunstable ) is an English table tennis player . She was one of the best players in England in the 1980s and 1990s and became vice European champion in 1992.

Career

The defender Lomas achieved her first international success at the European Youth Championships in Malmö in 1983, when she reached the semi-finals in singles and won the title in doubles with J. Parker. At the National English Championships she won five times in singles (1985, 1989, 1992, 1996, 1998) and nine times in doubles (1985 and 1987 with her sister Jackie Bellinger, from 1988 to 1992 with Fiona Elliott, in 1994 with Fiona Mommessin and in 1998 with Andrea Holt).

From 1983 to 1997 she took part in world championships eight times without coming close to medal ranks. She was more successful at European championships . If she reached the individual semi-finals in 1986 , she made it to the final in 1992 , which she lost to the Dutch Bettine Vriesekoop .

In 1992 and 1996 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games , where she was eliminated from the group games in both singles and doubles.

In the 1990s, Lomas played for the Swedish club Varberg BTK. In 1996 she joined the German Bundesliga club FC Langweid . With its women's team, she won the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1997 and the German championship in 1999. In 1999 she left FC Langweid and ended her active career.

Oddities

On February 7, 1993 in Ipswich, Lisa Lomas and her sister Jackie Bellinger set a new record in fast play: They made 173 ball contacts within one minute, almost three ball contacts per second.

Private

In 1986 Lisa Bellinger married the professional football goalkeeper from Chesham Andy Lomas. Her sister Jackie Bellinger is also an England international.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CLOSELY	Commonwealth Championship	1995	Singapore	SIN	Semifinals
CLOSELY	Commonwealth Championship	1985	Douglas	IMN	Semifinals			1
CLOSELY	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER	silver
CLOSELY	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	Semifinals
CLOSELY	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1983	Malmo	SWE	Semifinals	gold
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	9
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	Scratched
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	9
GBR	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
GBR	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
CLOSELY	Pro tour	1997	Lyon	FRA	last 16	last 16
CLOSELY	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT	last 32	Rd 1
CLOSELY	Pro tour	1997	Kettering	CLOSELY	last 32	Semifinals
CLOSELY	Pro tour	1996	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	silver	Semifinals
CLOSELY	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	Scratched	Scratched	no participants	19th
CLOSELY	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 64	no participants	10
CLOSELY	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	last 32	last 128	13
CLOSELY	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	last 32	no participants	12
CLOSELY	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	Agony	no participants	10
CLOSELY	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	Scratched	last 64	11
CLOSELY	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	Agony	last 64	9
CLOSELY	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 64	7th
CLOSELY	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/9 p.8
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 p.30
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 p.12
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 p.22
5. ↑ ^{a b} Journal DTS , 1993/4 p.30
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/5 p.14
7. ↑ Entry for Jackie Bellinger in the ITTF database (accessed on January 22, 2012)
8. ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed on January 22, 2012)

Web links

• Lisa Lomas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed January 22, 2012)