Bryan Reginald Merrett was a male 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
England
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.
Table tennis career
He won a
bronze medal at the
1955 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Utrecht from April 16 to April 24, 1955.
Medalists
Team
Individual
References
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in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with
Richard Bergmann
Richard Bergmann (10 April 1919 – 5 April 1970) was an Austrian and British international table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total. He is co ...
,
Brian Kennedy,
Johnny Leach
John Alfred Leach MBE (20 November 1922 – 5 June 2014) was a British table tennis player, coach, and author. He began competing at a relatively old age, 17, before serving in World War II. During the war, he greatly elevated his game a ...
and
Alan Rhodes and for England.
He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952.
He won two
English National Table Tennis Championships
The English National Table Tennis Championships are run by the English Table Tennis Association. The first championships were held in 1960. Desmond Douglas
Desmond Douglas MBE (born 20 July 1955 in Jamaica) is a British table tennis player. H ...
titles in singles and doubles.
Personal life
He married Shirley Hotchkins in 1957 and they spent their honeymoon on a Russian table tennis tour.
He died in August 2001 aged 66.
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See also
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* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
English male table tennis players
1934 births
2001 deaths
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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