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Percival Bromfield

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Percival Bromfield
Personal information
Nationality England
Born1886
Birmingham
Died1947
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1926 Men's Team

John Percival Bromfield (1886-1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]

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

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ^ "John Percival Bromfield" (PDF). The Table Tennis Collector.
  4. ^ "Perry, Bull and Haydon-They Knew the Way to Win, page 11" (PDF). Table Tennis England.