Kathleen Best

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Kathleen Best - married Thompson (b. 1933) is an English table tennis player with an active career in the 1950s. She won two silver and three bronze medals at world championships.

Career

In 1951, Kathleen Best played her first international match, against Germany. Then she gave up her job to concentrate fully on table tennis.

From 1952 to 1959, Kathleen Best was nominated four times for world championships . She reached the quarter-finals in doubles in 1952 , and won bronze in the team competition. In 1953 she reached the semi-finals with the Austrian Ermelinde Wertl and the final with the English team. At the side of Ann Haydon , she won silver in doubles in 1954 , the team took bronze. In 1960 she took part in the European Championship , where she was third in doubles with D.Collins and second with the team.

In 1960 she won the International German Championships in doubles with Diane Rowe .

In 1953 she was ninth in the world rankings .

Private

On December 31, 1952, Kathleen Best married the English table tennis player Alan Thompson . In 1955 she interrupted her career because she had a son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY European Championship 1960 Zagreb YUG Semifinals 2
CLOSELY World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 16 last 16 last 64 4th
CLOSELY World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY Quarter finals silver Quarter finals 3
CLOSELY World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU Quarter finals Semifinals Quarter finals 2
CLOSELY World Championship 1952 Bombay IND last 16 Quarter finals last 16 3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In March 1954 she was 21 years old according to Table Tennis, March 1954, page 130 (accessed November 2, 2015)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1951/18 page 1 and 1951/23 page 7
  3. ↑ Table Tennis, January 1952, page 9 (accessed November 2, 2015)
  4. ↑ Results of the European Championship 1960 ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 2, 2015)
  5. ↑ Table Tennis, March 1953, page 12 (accessed November 2, 2015)
  6. ↑ Kathleen Best results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 2, 2015)

literature

  • Malcolm Hartley: LOST HER JOB FOR ENGLAND , Table Tennis Magazine, Jan 1959, p.12 online
personal data
SURNAME Best, Kathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Kathleen; Thomson, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1933