Bryan Reginald Merrett was a male international table tennis player from England.[1]
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Nationality | England | |||||||||||
Born | Gloucester, England | 1 November 1934|||||||||||
Died | August 2001 Gloucester, England | (aged 66)|||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editHe won a bronze medal at the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Richard Bergmann, Brian Kennedy, Johnny Leach and Alan Rhodes and for England.[2][3]
He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952.[4] He won two English National Table Tennis Championships titles in singles and doubles.[5]
Personal life
editHe married Shirley Hotchkins in 1957 and they spent their honeymoon on a Russian table tennis tour.[6] He died in August 2001 aged 66.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Sports Round-up". Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Friday Photos No 46: Men's National Champions". Table Tennis England.
- ^ "News page 21" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2018.