James McClure (September 28, 1916; Indianapolis, Indiana – February 12, 2005; Cape Coral, Florida) was an American international table tennis player.[1]
James McClure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | James 'Jimmy' McClure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | 28 September 1916|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 February 2005 Cape Coral, Florida, United States | (aged 88)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editFrom 1936 to 1949 he won six medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2] [3] This included four gold medals; three in the doubles with Buddy Blattner and Sol Schiff respectively and one in the team event.[4] [5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "James McClure obituary". Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.