Helen Elliot (20 January 1927 – 12 January 2013)
was an international
table tennis
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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
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.
The seven medals included two
golds at the
1949 World Table Tennis Championships and
1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles where she partnered
Gizi Farkas and
Dora Beregi 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
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* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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References
External links
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1927 births
2013 deaths
British female table tennis players
Scottish table tennis players