Tommy Sears
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Full name | Thomas Eagar Sears | |||||||||||||
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Born | Dublin | March 13, 1911|||||||||||||
Died | Swindon | December 6, 1975|||||||||||||
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Thomas Eagar Sears (1911–1975), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career[]
He won a silver medal in the men's team event at the 1931 World Table Tennis Championships.[2] He also won two English Open titles and captained England.
Personal life[]
Sears was a warehouse manager at W.H Smith Supply Centre from 1926 to 1973. He was also a Japanese prisoner of war.[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" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
Categories:
- English male table tennis players
- 1911 births
- 1975 deaths
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- British table tennis biography stubs