Joan Crosby Explained

Joan Crosby
Birth Name:Joan Sophie Brock
Birth Date:1920
Birth Place:Exeter, Devon, England[1]
Death Place:Devon, England

Joan Sophie Crosby (Brock; 1920–2013) was an English international table tennis player.[2]

Table tennis career

Crosby won double silver at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's team event[3] [4] and the women's doubles with Pinkie Barnes.[5]

Personal life

Joan Brock married Donald "Driver" Peter Crosby in Exeter in September 1940.[6] She died in Devon in 2013.[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Birth registration . FreeBMD . 29 November 2022.
  2. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  3. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 7 May 2018. 5 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
  4. Web site: 1949 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 7 May 2018. 25 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925140430/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1948-49/tt_issue56.pdf. dead.
  5. Web site: Women's doubles results. International Table Tennis Federation. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf. 2012-04-12.
  6. News: Late Advertisements . 2 February 2023 . Express and Echo . 26 September 1940.
  7. Web site: Joan Sophie Crosby death record . GRO Index . 2 February 2023.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Joan Crosby".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.