Laima Balaišytė (married name Laima Amelin; born 3 January 1948) is a former international table tennis player from Lithuania.

Laima Balaišytė (Amelin)
Balaišytė-Amelina in 1971
Personal information
Born (1948-01-03) 3 January 1948 (age 76)
Vilnius
SpouseAnatoly Amelin
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Soviet Union
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second place 1967 Stockholm Women's team
Gold medal – first place 1969 Munich Women's team

Table tennis career

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She won a silver medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Svetlana Grinberg, Signe Paisjärv and Zoja Rudnova for the Soviet Union.[1][2][3]

Two years later she won the gold medal at the 1969 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Grinberg, Rudnova and Rita Pogosova for the Soviet Union.[4][5]

She was the Soviet Union National Champion in 1962 and 1964.

Personal life

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She married fellow table tennis international Anatoly Amelin, living in Moscow.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  3. ^ "1967 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  4. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  5. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. ^ Юбилей чемпионки Мира Лаймы Амелиной