| Kathleen Best | |
| Birth Date: | 1933 |
Cecilia 'Kathleen' Best (married name Thompson), was a female English international table tennis player.[1]
She won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).[2] [3] The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.[4]
At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.
She married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952 in Yorkshire and won two English Open titles.