Wendy Woodhead
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Full name | Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush) | ||||||||||||||||
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1916 Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||
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2003 Cumberland | ||||||||||||||||
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Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead was a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]
Table tennis career
She won a bronze medal with Margaret Osborne in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships. The following year she won a gold medal at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships with Laszlo Bellak.[2] [3] It was the first time they had paired together for a tournament.[4]
She also won four English Open titles.
Personal Life
Her father Percy William Woodhead owned a tennis court and table tennis room where she learnt to play. She married Martin 'Bunny' Burbush in 1940.[5] She died in 2003, in Penrith, Cumbria.
Wendy & Martin had two children. Belinda & Timothy.
See also
External links
- History of USA Table Tennis Volume 1 - Chapter 27 Retrieved 2013-01-24
References
- ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ↑ "Laszlo Bellak article" (PDF).
- ↑ "A HISTORY OF THE CLUB 1924-2004" (PDF). Amersham & Chiltern RFC.
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