John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male

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international

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player.

Table tennis career

He won a

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at the

1926 World Table Tennis Championships The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926. The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was for ...

in the men's team event. He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking He also won two

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titles. Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.

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1886 births 1947 deaths World Table Tennis Championships medalists English male table tennis players {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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