Laima Balaišytė Explained

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

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

• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Notes and References

1. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
2. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 11 May 2018. 5 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
3. Web site: 1967 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 11 May 2018. 8 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108102427/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1966-67/tt_issue207.pdf. dead.
4. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
5. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
6. https://def.kondopoga.ru/1180508928-yubiley-chempionki-mira-laymy-amelinoy.html Юбилей чемпионки Мира Лаймы Амелиной