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| Nationality |  England | |||||||||||
| Born | (1934-11-01)1 November 1934 Gloucester, England | |||||||||||
| Died | August 2001(2001-08-00) (aged 66) Gloucester, England | |||||||||||
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Bryan Reginald Merrett was a male international table tennis player from England.
Table tennis career
He won a bronze medal at the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Richard Bergmann, Brian Kennedy, Johnny Leach and Alan Rhodes and for England.
He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952. He won two English National Table Tennis Championships titles in singles and doubles.
Personal life
He married Shirley Hotchkins in 1957 and they spent their honeymoon on a Russian table tennis tour. He died in August 2001 aged 66.
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. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Sports Round-up". Daily Telegraph.
- "Friday Photos No 46: Men's National Champions". Table Tennis England.
- "News page 21" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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