Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international
table tennis
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...
player.
Table tennis career
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea. She learnt the art of playing the tennis herself during the World War II.
She won a
bronze medal
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in the
1951 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1951 World Table tennis, Table Tennis Championships were held in Vienna from March 2 to March 11, 1951.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with
Audrey Bates
Audrey Glenys Bates (4 April 1922 – 21 November 2001) was a Welsh international athlete in four sports for Wales: table tennis, tennis, squash and lacrosse. She as inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame posthumously in 2002.
Biograph ...
and
Audrey Coombs
Audrey Marguerite Coombs (married name Jones), (1928-2016), was a female Welsh international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) ...
for Wales.
She played more than 250 times for Wales
and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.
Awards
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.
Later life
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died at age 96 in 2018.
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See also
* List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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References
1920 births
2018 deaths
Welsh female table tennis players
Sportspeople from Resolven
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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