Rosalind Rowe

Rosalind Rowe
Richard Bergmann with Diane and Rosalind Rowe (right) in 1953
Personal information
Full name Rosalind Rowe
Nationality  England
Born (1933-04-14)14 April 1933
Marylebone, London, England
Died 15 June 2015(2015-06-15) (aged 82)

Rosalind Cornett (née Rowe) (14 April 1933 – 15 June 2015) was a British table tennis player who multiple competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships between 1951 and 1955.[1]

Table tennis career

From 1951 to 1955 she won 14 medals in single, double, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships,[2] many of them together with her twin sister Diane.[3]

The 14 World Championship medals[4][5] included two gold medals in the doubles at the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships and 1954 World Table Tennis Championships.[6] [7]

She also won nine English Open titles.

Personal Life

Born in Marylebone, England on 14 April 1933,[8] Rosalind Rowe was a daughter of former amateur footballer Vivian Rowe.[9]

In 1955 she and her sister Diane published a book, The twins on table tennis.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rosalind Rowe, sportswoman - obituary. Telegraph.co.uk (24 June 2015). Retrieved on 2016-07-20.
  2. ↑ ROWE Rosalind (ENG). ittf.com
  3. ↑ Happy birthday Diane and Rosalind, national heroines. ettu.org. 15 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  5. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  6. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  7. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  8. ↑ Rosalind Rowe, sportswoman - obituary. Telegraph.co.uk (24 June 2015). Retrieved on 2016-07-20.
  9. ↑ Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 138. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  10. ↑ Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe (1955). 'The twins' on table tennis.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.