Depends on which implementations you're talking about.
But even fast Smalltalks weren't very fast relative to C, just relative to most other dynamic languages. And, of course, the people who made Smalltalk fast ended up making Java even faster.
Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self and a Smalltalk or two.
Were there fast managed statically typed languages? Yes, SML and Haskell.
Where there fast, managed, statically typed, and object-oriented languages? Not many. Maybe Eiffel, but that was shackled by DbC dogmatism and probably some amount of Eurocentricity. I don't think Ada had GC back then and if your complaint is that Java is too verbose, you sure as heck aren't gonna like Ada.
But even fast Smalltalks weren't very fast relative to C, just relative to most other dynamic languages. And, of course, the people who made Smalltalk fast ended up making Java even faster.