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Born | Resolven, Neath | 20 August 1920||||||||||||||
Died | 12 August 2018 | (aged 97)||||||||||||||
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Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player. [1] [2]
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea. [3]
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. [4]
She played more than 250 times for Wales [5] and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup. [6]
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea. [7]
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died in 2018. [5]
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Born | Resolven, Neath | 20 August 1920||||||||||||||
Died | 12 August 2018 | (aged 97)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player. [1] [2]
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea. [3]
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. [4]
She played more than 250 times for Wales [5] and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup. [6]
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea. [7]
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died in 2018. [5]