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Judith Yvonne Williams (25 February 1944 – 16 August 2024) [1] was a British international table tennis player from England [2] who also played in the Netherlands.She played in several World Table Tennis Championships and Veterans World Championships and won the English National Table Tennis Championships in 1969.
The English National Table Tennis Championships are run by the English Table Tennis Association. The first championships were held in 1960. [ 1 ] Desmond Douglas has won the most singles titles with 11, [ 2 ] whilst the leading woman is Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley with seven singles titles.
It was founded as the Table Tennis Association in 1921. [3] The organisation was known as the English Table Tennis Association between 1927 and 2014 and has been affiliated to the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) since 1927. [4] [5] Table Tennis England is based at Milton Keynes, having moved from Hastings in March 2014. [6]
Pitchford became the first British table tennis athlete to appear at four Olympic Games when he competed at Paris 2024. [39] He was defeated in the round of 32 bt 13th seed Darko Jorgic. [40] Pitchford was selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Florida Crocs in the 2024 Major League Table Tennis Draft.
He continued to write a column for News of the World for twenty years and published several books on table tennis. He also worked as a commentator for the BBC and ITV during table tennis broadcasts. Leach bought a table tennis manufacture and started a talent search agency. In 1966, he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Andrew Baggaley (born 26 February 1983) is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes.He is England's leading table tennis medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold medals in Manchester, England (2002), 1 silver medal in Melbourne, Australia (2006), 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in Delhi, India (2010) and 1 silver in Glasgow, Great Britain.
Year Host City Gold Silver Bronze 1926: London: Roland Jacobi: Zoltán Mechlovits: Munio Pillinger: S.R.G. Suppiah: 1928: Stockholm: Zoltán Mechlovits: Laszlo Bellak