Betty Gray
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| Nationality |  Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 August 1920 Resolven, Neath | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 August 2018 (aged 97) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.[1][2]
Table tennis career
[edit]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
[edit]She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[8]
Later life
[edit]Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died at age 96 in 2018.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Betty Gray obituary".
- ^ "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales. 20 August 2010.
- ^ "Betty Gray obituary". www.thetimes.com. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96". BBC News. 13 August 2018.
- ^ "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online. 21 November 2010.
- ^ "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.
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