Jimmy Walker (table tennis player)

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Jimmy Walker (* around 1954) is a former English table tennis player from the 1970s. He participated in two world championships and won several medals in the Commonwealth championships.

Career

At the National English Championships Jimmy Walker won doubles with Desmond Douglas in 1978/79 . He was nominated for two world championships, namely 1975 and 1977 , but won no medals. He achieved success at the Commonwealth Championships, where he was first with the English team in 1975. In 1979 he won silver in singles and doubles (with Colin Wilson) and gold in mixed with Linda Howard .

In 1977 Jimmy Walker moved from the English club Ormesby Churlane to Germany for Bundesliga club TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm , which he left again at the end of the 1977/78 season. In 1979/80 he played for the Bundesliga club SSV Reutlingen 05 . In 1980/81 he was with the club 1. TTC Cologne (formerly TTC FmJ Cologne) champion of the Regionalliga Süd.

Private

Jimmy Walker is a sporting goods merchant. In October 1979 he married the English table tennis player Karen Senior , who was then playing for the 1st TTC Cologne.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1979 Edinburgh SCO silver silver gold
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1975 Melbourne OUT 1
CLOSELY World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY last 64 last 32 no participants 10
CLOSELY World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 64 last 64 Agony 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to DTS, Jimmy Walker was 27 years old in 1981. - DTS magazine , 1981/8 page 19
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/4 page 19
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm - Bundesliga (accessed on October 28, 2014)
  4. ↑ Annual reports 1978-1979 of the table tennis association Württemberg-Hohenzollern page 11 (accessed on February 19, 2016)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/8 pp. 16-19
  6. ^ "Table Tennis News" magazine, December 1979, page 38 Online (accessed October 28, 2014)
  7. ↑ Jimmy Walker (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 28, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1954