Laima Balaišytė

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
Vilnius
Spouse(s)Anatoly Amelin
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Soviet Union
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second place1967 StockholmWomen's team
Gold medal – first place1969 MunichWomen's team

Table tennis career

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

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

See also

References
  1. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  3. "1967 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  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


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