Betty Gray
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Betty Gray was a female Welsh former international table tennis player.[1].[2]
Table tennis career
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea.[3]
She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Audrey Bates and Audrey Coombs for Wales.[4]
For 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.[5]
Awards
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/betty-gray-obituary-h66tq5bl0
- ↑ "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales.
- ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ↑ "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online.
- ↑ "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.
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