Helen Elliot (20 January 1927 – 12 January 2013)
was an 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
Scotland
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.
Table tennis career
Helen started playing table tennis aged 16. In 1946 she won the first of 13 consecutive Scottish Open women's singles titles and was capped by Scotland the following year.
From 1948 to 1957 she won seven medals in the
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include me ...
.
The seven medals included two
golds at the
1949 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1949 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Stockholm from February 4 to February 10, 1949.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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and
1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles where she partnered
Gizi Farkas and
Dora Beregi
Dora Beregi is a former international table tennis player from Hungary and later England and Australia.
Table tennis career
Beregi won a silver medal at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships with Ida Ferenczy in the doubles when represent ...
respectively.
She also won two
English Open
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titles.
Personal life
She coached at Butlins Holiday Camps with
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 ...
. She married and became Helen Hamilton-Elliot and was President of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation.
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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 i ...
* 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
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1927 births
2013 deaths
British female table tennis players
Scottish table tennis players