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Kornelija Riliškytė

Kornelija Riliškytė (born in 2003 Janurary 11, Vilnius, Lithuania) - Multiple Lithuanian table tennis women's champion and long-term Lithuanian women's national team member.

Biography

Kornelija started playing table tennis in her childhood, when she and her sister were introduced to the sport by their mother. Since childhood, Kornelija and her sister Emilija Riliškytė have been coached by Jolanta Prūsienė. In 2016, at the age of 13, she won second place and became Lithuanian women's table tennis vice-champion[1] after that made her debut in the Lithuanian women's national team.

In 2018, K. Riliškytė represented the European team at the World Cadet Championship's. In the doubles event, together with Romanian player Elena Zaharia, she won a bronze medal.

In 2023, K. Riliškytė participated in the European Games in Kraków. In the first round, despite trailing 0:3, she managed to defeat Georgia’s Ana Nikoiani with a score of 4:3.[2] In the second round, she beat Italy’s Deborah Vivarelli — ranked 140th in the world — with a score of 4:0. In the round of 16, Kornelija faced the 19th-ranked player in the world, Chinese-born Jia Nan Yuan representing France, and lost 0:4.

K. Riliškytė is a multiple-time Lithuanian champion both in singles and in doubles with her sister E. Riliškytė. She is also a medalist in mixed doubles with her partner Kęstutis Žeimys. In 2025, she became the absolute champion, winning gold in all three events: women’s doubles, mixed doubles, and women's singles.

Currently, Kornelija plays in the Germany first table tennis Bundesliga, representing the ESV Weil team.

Achievements

Highest achievements
Year Tournament Place
2018 World Cadet Championship's (doubles) 3
2019 Lithuanian championship 1
2020 Lithuanian championship 1[3]
2021 Lithuanian championship 1[4]
2022 Lithuanian championship 1[5]
2023 Lithuanian championship 1
2023 European games 17[6]
2024 Lithuanian championship 1
2025 Lithuanian championship 1[7]

Personal life

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