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| Nationality |  Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1920-08-20)20 August 1920 Resolven, Neath | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 August 2018(2018-08-12) (aged 97) | ||||||||||||||
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Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea. She learnt the art of playing the tennis herself during the World War II.
She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Audrey Bates and Audrey Coombs for Wales.
She played more than 250 times for Wales and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.
Awards
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.
Later life
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died at age 96 in 2018.
See also
References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- "Betty Gray obituary".
- "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales. 20 August 2010.
- "Betty Gray obituary". The Times. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ "Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96". BBC News. 13 August 2018.
- "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online. 21 November 2010.
- "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.
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