Wendy Woodhead
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| Full name | Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush) | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1916 Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2003 Cumberland | ||||||||||||||||
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Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead was a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]
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.
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.
- ^ 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
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