Betty Gray
Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.[1][2]
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| Born | 20 August 1920 Resolven, Neath | |||||||||||||
| Died | 12 August 2018 (aged 97) | |||||||||||||
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Table tennis career
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea.[3]
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.[4]
She played more than 250 times for Wales[5] and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.[6]
Awards
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[7]
Later life
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died in 2018.[5]
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References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/betty-gray-obituary-h66tq5bl0
- "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales.
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- "Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96". BBC.
- "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online.
- "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.
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