Věra Votrubcová

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Věra Votrubcová (born February 28, 1911 in Plzeň , † July 24, 1981 in Dobřany ) was a Czech table tennis player . She won six gold, three silver and four bronze medals at world championships in the 1930s.

Career

Votrubcová was very active in sports in her youth. With the fistball team from Sokol Plzeň she was Czechoslovakian champion ten times. She was also a good gymnast and gymnast, played Národní házená ( Bohemian handball ) and did heavy athletics, cycling, skiing and figure skating. Professionally, she worked as a teacher for French and sports at a school in Pilsen, where she first came into contact with table tennis at the age of 22, which fascinated her. From then on she trained with Viktoria Plzeň's team in the “Peklo” casino. Two years later, Votrubcová was with Viktoria Plzeň for the first time Czechoslovakian champion in the sport, which had previously been dominated by the Prague clubs.

From 1936 to 1947 Věra Votrubcová took part in five world championships . She was world champion six times, namely twice in doubles with Vlasta Depetrisová , twice in mixed with Bohumil Váňa and twice with the Czech women's team:

  • 1936 with the team
  • 1937 in doubles and mixed
  • 1938 in doubles and with the team
  • 1939 mixed

There are also silver medals in 1936 in doubles with Depetrisová and in 1939 with the team. In individual, she reached the semi-finals in 1938 and the quarter-finals in 1937 and 1939.

At the International German Championships, she came in doubles in 1937 in Berlin with Trude Pritzi in the final. In 1938 she won in Krefeld with Vlasta Depetrisová , a year later she came second in Brandenburg with Marie Kettnerová . She was also a seven-time Czechoslovakian champion.

Her last international appearance was at the 1947 World Cup , where she won bronze with the team. After that, she could no longer build on her old form and ended her active sporting career.

In the ITTF world rankings she took second place in 1938. In 1993 she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

Věra Votrubcová was married to her trainer and later a functionary at Viktoria Plzeň, Alois Jakeš, and had two children.

In 2015, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Czech Table Tennis Association, she was posthumously accepted into the Czech Table Tennis Hall of Fame.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   last 16  Quarter finals  last 32  3
TCH  World Championship  1939  Cairo  EGY   Quarter finals  Semifinals  gold  2
TCH  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   Semifinals  gold  silver  1
TCH  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   Quarter finals  gold  gold  3
TCH  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   last 16  silver  last 32  1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cojeco.cz/index.php?detail=1&id_desc=398213&title=Votrubcov%E1&s_lang=2 (accessed on July 2, 2011)
  2. ↑ According to Návod pro klienty ( Memento of May 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Votrubcová died in Plzeň.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on July 2, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
  5. ↑ Hall of Fame (accessed July 2, 2011; PDF; 358 kB)
  6. ↑ Do síně slávy byli slavnostně přijati noví členové (Czech) (accessed April 12, 2020)
  7. ↑ Věra Votrubcová Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 16, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Votrubcová, Věra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Plzeň
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1981
Place of death Dobřany