Jessie Purves
Jessie 'Jay' Purves was an international table tennis player from the United States.[1]
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Full name | Jessie Lydia Purves | |||||||||||||||||||
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Died | January 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
She won two World Championship medals[2] including a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships.[3][4][5]
Hall of Fame
She was inducted into the USA Hall of Fame in 1979 months after her death.[6][7]
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References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=5769
- Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- "Jessie "Jay" Purves". United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- "Hall of Fame Inductees". USATT.
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