Betty Gray
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Nationality | Wales | |||||||||||||
Born | Resolven, Neath | 20 August 1920|||||||||||||
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[]
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]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Betty Gray obituary".
- ^ "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales. 20 August 2010.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2018 deaths
- Welsh female table tennis players
- People from Neath Port Talbot
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- British table tennis biography stubs