Adele Wood Explained

Adele Wood
Birth Date:1932 [1]
Birth Place:Manchester, England[2]

Adele Wood is an English former international table tennis player.[3]

Table tennis career

She won a silver medal at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Pinkie Barnes, Joan Crosby and Peggy Franks for England.[4]

Wood played her last representative match in 1958, after marrying Len Pettifer.[5] [6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Cohen . Leslie . Adele Wood in Good Form . 5 November 2022 . Manchester Evening News . 11 February 1948.
  2. Web site: Birth registration . FreeBMD . 5 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-03-13. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
  5. News: Adele plays in last big game . 5 November 2022 . Manchester Evening News . 3 April 1958.
  6. News: Both Pettifers in semi-finals . 5 November 2022 . Evening Post . 23 April 1963.