Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead (10 May 1916 – January 2003) was a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]
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| Full name | Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush) | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1916 Oxfordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 2003 (aged 86) Cumberland, England | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editShe 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
editHer 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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
edit- History of USA Table Tennis Volume 1 - Chapter 27 Retrieved 2013-01-24
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