Marta Hejma

Marta Hejma , née Lužová (born June 27, 1947 in Zlín , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German table tennis player . She is European champion in doubles and mixed and won the German championship once .

biography

For Czechoslovakia, the 1.56 m wide Hejma took under her birth name Lužová at three world championships ( World Cup 1963 , World Cup 1965 , World Cup 1967 ) and three European Championships in part. Here she won the mixed title together with Vladimír Miko in London in 1966 . In 1968 in Lyon she won the double competition with Jitka Karlíková . She took second place at an EM in 1964 in mixed with Vladimir Miko and in 1966 in women's doubles with Irena Mikócziová .

She won the championship of Czechoslovakia five times (1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968), with Sparta Prague she was team champion several times (1965, 1966). In 1965 and 1966 she took first place in the CSSR ranking.

In 1968 she married the ice hockey player Petr Hejma . He used a guest performance from Prague in Düsseldorf in September 1968 to avoid returning home. Shortly afterwards, Marta Hejma was allowed to leave for Germany.

Marta Hejma joined the Duisburg club DSC Kaiserberg and acquired German citizenship. 1970 son Petr junior was born, who like his father became an ice hockey player. The family lives in Hilden.

In 1971 Hejma won the German championship in singles in Hanover and in mixed with Karl-Heinz Scholl . In the same year she competed for Germany at the World Cup , but only in the individual competitions. In 1969, 1971 and 1972 she took first place in the national ranking tournament DTTB-Top-12 . With the DSC Kaiserberg club, she won the German championship four times from 1969 to 1972 and the German women's cup championship in 1971 and 1972. In 1971 the team won the European competition "Nancy Evans Cup" .

In 1984 she joined the club DJK Blau-Weiß Hilden and played in the association league.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TCH	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	Quarter finals	gold	Quarter finals
TCH	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	Semifinals	silver	gold
TCH	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE			silver
TCH	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1962	Bled	YUG	Semifinals	gold
FRG	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 16
TCH	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals	last 16	Quarter finals	4th
TCH	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 16	last 16	Quarter finals	7th
TCH	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 64	last 16	last 32	9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , West issue 1965/19 p. 8 + 1966/16 South-West issue p. 27
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/9 p. 53
3. ↑ Marta Hejma Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 8, 2011)