Harry Venner
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Nationality | England | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1923 London | |||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 April 2015 London | (aged 91–92)|||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Henry Thomas Venner (1923 – 12 April 2015), was a male international table tennis player from England.[1]
Table tennis career[]
Venner won three medals at the World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) event.[2]
He was an all-out attacking player and used a hard rubber bat for the majority of his career before switching to a sandwich bat. He later became a coach and ran the Putney Club. He died on 12 April 2015.[3]
See also[]
- List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Obituary: Harry Venner, Swaythling Cup star". Table Tennis England.
Categories:
- English male table tennis players
- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- British table tennis biography stubs