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Betty Gray

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Betty Gray
Personal information
Nationality Wales
Born(1920-08-20)20 August 1920
Resolven, Neath
Died12 August 2018(2018-08-12) (aged 97)
Medal record
Representing  Wales
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1951 Women's Team

Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.[1][2]

Table tennis career

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She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea.[3] She learnt the art of playing the tennis herself during the World War II.[4]

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.[5]

She played more than 250 times for Wales[6] and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.[7]

Awards

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She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[8]

Later life

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Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died at age 96 in 2018.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Betty Gray obituary".
  3. ^ "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales. 20 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Betty Gray obituary". www.thetimes.com. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96". BBC News. 13 August 2018.
  7. ^ "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online. 21 November 2010.
  8. ^ "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.