Ken Stanley

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Ken Stanley (born February 19, 1922 in Hulme (Manchester) ; † March 1, 2013 in Mirfield ) was an English table tennis player and coach who took part in three world championships in the 1930s and 1940s and won bronze in the team competition in 1939.

Career

Ken Stanley started playing table tennis when he was 11 years old. He was English junior champion three times in a row.

He first played for England at the 1938 World Cup . The next World Cup, in 1939 , was his most successful. In the team competition he took bronze, in doubles with Ernest Bubley he made it to the quarterfinals.

At the beginning of the Second World War he volunteered for the Royal Air Force , where he was deployed in India. Here he still had enough time for table tennis activities. Here he caused a stir internationally when he won the All India Cup in singles, doubles and mixed. In 1948 he was nominated again for the world championship.

In the late 1940s he began a career as a coach. In 1947 he worked in Scotland for two years, from 1951 he worked for six months in New Zealand, where he also won the New Zealand Open in 1952.

In 1959, Ken Stanley published Table Tennis - A New Approach (112 pages).

Private

Ken Stanley married Marion Brook in 1942. He had four children with her. His son David and daughter Janet also played table tennis and won several national youth titles.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY World Championship 1948 Wembley CLOSELY last 64 last 16 last 32
CLOSELY World Championship 1939 Cairo EGY last 64 Quarter finals last 32 3
CLOSELY World Championship 1938 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 last 64 no participants

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Stanley: Death , article in the Huddersfield Examiner, March 6, 2013 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b Review of the book in Table Tennis magazine, October 1959, page 14 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  3. ↑ Double competition at the 1939 World Cup (accessed on June 13, 2015)
  4. ↑ "The History of the Scottish Table Tennis Association", page 5 (Engl.) ( Memento of the original June 15, 2015 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 13, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tabletennisscotland.com
  5. ↑ Table Tennis, September 1952, page 10 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  6. ^ Table Tennis News, October 1975, p. 4 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  7. ↑ Table Tennis, November 1955, page 11 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  8. ^ Table Tennis magazine, March 1959, page 8 (accessed June 13, 2015)
  9. ↑ Ken Stanley results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 13, 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanley, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hulme (Manchester)
DATE OF DEATH 1st of March 2013
Place of death Mirfield