Vlasta Depetrisová

Vlasta Depetrisová (born December 20, 1920 in Plzeň ; † October 23, 2003 there ) was a Czech table tennis player . She won four gold medals at world championships.

In 1938 she lost the individual World Cup final against Trude Pritzi and was runner-up in the world championship. A year later she won the final against the same opponent and took gold. She won two other world titles in doubles in 1937 and 1938 each with Věra Votrubcová , with whom she had already won silver in 1936 . In 1938 she became team world champion with CSR. In mixed she reached the final twice, in 1947 with Adolf Šlár and in 1948 with Bohumil Váňa .

She married in 1948 and took the double name Pokorná-Depetrisová six months later . The marriage soon ended in divorce. Her second marriage was to table tennis player and international Austrian national champion Rudolf Vlk († 1989).

In 1993 Vlková-Depetrisová received the ITTF Merit Award from the TT World Federation . 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	1948	Wembley	CLOSELY	Semifinals	last 16	silver	3
TCH	World Championship	1947	Paris	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals	silver	3
TCH	World Championship	1939	Cairo	EGY	gold	Semifinals	last 16	2
TCH	World Championship	1938	Wembley	CLOSELY	silver	gold	Quarter finals	1
TCH	World Championship	1937	to bathe	AUT	Quarter finals	gold	Quarter finals	3
TCH	World Championship	1936	Prague	TCH	last 64	silver	last 32

Web links

• Obituary in Stolní tenis 11/2003 (p. 10) (pdf; 464 kB) (accessed on January 15, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/6 p. 10
2. ↑ Do síně slávy byli slavnostně přijati noví členové (Czech) (accessed April 12, 2020)
3. ↑ Vlasta Depetrisová Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 5, 2011)