Percival Bromfield Explained

Percival Bromfield
Birth Date:	April 1886
Birth Place:	Birmingham, England

John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male English international table tennis player.^[1]

Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event.^[2]

He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking ^[3] He also won two English Open titles.

Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.^[4]

See also

• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
2. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-03-01. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
3. Web site: John Percival Bromfield. The Table Tennis Collector.
4. Web site: Perry, Bull and Haydon-They Knew the Way to Win, page 11. Table Tennis England.