Linda Howard (table tennis player)

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Linda Howard (* around 1956) is an English table tennis player who became European double champion in 1976.

Career

Linda Howard achieved her first international success at the European Youth Championships in 1973, where she won the title in mixed with Desmond Douglas .

She won twelve titles at the national English championships , namely seven in doubles and five in mixed. At the Commonwealth Championships for adults she was first six times in the 1970s, namely in 1973 and 1975 with the English team, in 1975 in doubles with Jill Hammersley and in mixed with Desmond Douglas and in 1979 in doubles with Carole Knight and in mixed with Jimmy Walker . From 1973 to 1981 Howard was nominated four times for world championships and in 1975 he finished fifth in team competition.

She took part in European championships five times . Here she achieved the greatest success in 1976 when she prevailed in doubles with Jill Hammersley in the final against Alica Grofová / Dana Dubinová (ČSSR) and became European champion. Silver she won yet at the same EM with the English team and 1980 in mixed doubles with Desmond Douglas, bronze in doubles with Jill Hammersley in 1980 and 1982 . After the EM in 1982 she ended her international career.

In the ITTF world rankings , Linda Howard finished 24th in mid-1976.

Around 1979 she played for the German club Post SV Düsseldorf .

Private

Linda Howard initially worked as a sporting goods seller in London. In June 1979 she married the English table tennis player Nicky Jarvis . Their son Matt Jarvis (* 1986) is a well-known soccer player. Linda's sister Susan - now Sue Henderson - won the 1973 Commonwealth Championships. Linda and Nicky Jarvis have been running a table tennis equipment store called "Jarvis Sport" since 1983.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1979 Edinburgh SCO Semifinals gold gold
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1975 Melbourne OUT silver gold gold 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1973 Cardiff WHALE silver silver 1
CLOSELY European Championship 1982 Budapest HUN Semifinals
CLOSELY European Championship 1980 Bern SUI Semifinals silver
CLOSELY European Championship 1978 Duisburg FRG last 16 Quarter finals
CLOSELY European Championship 1976 Prague TCH last 16 gold 2
CLOSELY European Championship 1974 Novi Sad YUG Quarter finals
CLOSELY European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1973 Piraeus GRE gold
CLOSELY World Championship 1981 Novi Sad YUG last 32 last 16 last 32 12
CLOSELY World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY last 64 last 64 last 32 7th
CLOSELY World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 64 last 32 last 64 5
CLOSELY World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG last 32 last 32 last 32 10

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Linda Howard was 20 years old in 1976, according to DTS magazine (1976/7 page 6)
  2. ↑ Youth European Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016)
  3. ^ "Tabel Tennis News" magazine, May / June 1982, page 34 Online (accessed October 20, 2014)
  4. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on October 27, 2011)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1979/8 page 4
  6. ↑ Profile at Wolverhampton Wanderers (accessed October 27, 2011) ( Memento from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.gttl.co.uk/index.php?q=node/74 (accessed October 27, 2011)
  8. ^ "The History of Jarvis Sports" ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Jarvis Sports) (accessed October 21, 2014)
  9. ↑ Linda Howard (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 27, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarvis, Linda (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1956