Wendy Woodhead
Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead was a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush) | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 1916 Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 2003 Cumberland | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Table tennis career
She won a silver medal with Margaret Osborne in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships. The following year she won a gold medal at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships with Laszlo Bellak.[2][3] It was the first time they had paired together for a tournament.[4]
She also won four English Open titles.
Personal life
Her father Percy William Woodhead owned a tennis court and table tennis room where she learnt to play. She married Martin 'Bunny' Burbush in 1940.[5] She died in 2003, in Penrith, Cumbria.
Wendy & Martin had two children. Belinda & Timothy.
gollark: No, I WILL integrate by parts.
gollark: (And Aidan lied to me)
gollark: (I mean, it's not that bad, but it's mildly harder than the rest)
gollark: AAAAAAÅAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÅAAAAAA
gollark: Yes.
See also
References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- 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.
- "Laszlo Bellak article" (PDF).
- "A HISTORY OF THE CLUB 1924-2004" (PDF). Amersham & Chiltern RFC.
External links
- History of USA Table Tennis Volume 1 - Chapter 27 Retrieved 2013-01-24
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.