Betty Gray Explained

Betty Gray
Birth Date:20 August 1920
Birth Place:Resolven, Neath

Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.[1] [2]

Table tennis career

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]

Awards

She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[7]

Later life

Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died in 2018.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  2. News: Betty Gray obituary.
  3. News: Swansea table tennis champion hits 90. 20 August 2010. BBC Wales.
  4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-03-15. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
  5. News: Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96. BBC News. 13 August 2018.
  6. Web site: How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend. 21 November 2010. Wales Online.
  7. Web site: Betty Gray MBE. Swansea & District Table Tennis League.