Jessie Purves
Jessie 'Jay' Purves | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jessie Lydia Purves | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | |||||||||||||||||||
Died | January 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jessie 'Jay' Purves was an international table tennis player from the United States.[1]
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]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=5769[bare URL]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- American female table tennis players
- 1979 deaths
- North American table tennis biography stubs
- American sportspeople stubs