Percival Bromfield
John Percival Bromfield (1886-1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]
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Table tennis career
He won a bronze medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event.[2]
He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking [3] He also won two English Open titles.
Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.[4]
See also
References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- "John Percival Bromfield" (PDF). The Table Tennis Collector.
- "Perry, Bull and Haydon-They Knew the Way to Win, page 11" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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