Laima Balaišytė (married name Laima Amelin; born 3 January 1948) is a former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from Lithuania.

Table tennis career

She won a

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at the

1967 World Table Tennis Championships The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm from April 11 to April 21, 1967. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were de ...

in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with

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, Signe Paisjärv and

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for the Soviet Union. Two years later she won the

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at the

1969 World Table Tennis Championships The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich from April 17 to April 27, 1969. It was the 30th edition to be contested. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism and we ...

in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Grinberg, Rudnova and

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

Personal life

She married fellow table tennis international Anatoly Amelin, living in

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.Юбилей чемпионки Мира Лаймы Амелиной
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Lithuanian female table tennis players Soviet table tennis players 1948 births Living people Sportspeople from Vilnius World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Lithuania-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

Personal life

See also

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