Margaret Franks

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Margaret "Peggy" Franks (born before 1947) is an English former table tennis player from the 1940s and 1950s. She was once world champion in doubles and twice in team competition.

Career

Margaret Franks - mostly called "Peggy" in professional circles - took part in eight world championships from 1947 to 1955 . In 1947 and 1948 she was world champion with the English team. In 1948 she won the doubles title with Vera Thomas (formerly Vera Dace) by winning the final against the English-Scottish couple Dóra Beregi / Helen Elliot . In 1949 she was defeated in the final of the team competition of the USA team and won silver. There are also six bronze medals, namely in 1950 , 1951 and 1952 in the team competition, in 1947 in mixed with Victor Barna , in 1949 in mixed with Johnny Leach and in 1950 in doubles with Vera Thomas.

She achieved further successes in 1948 at the Welsh Open in doubles with Adele Wood and a year later when she won all disciplines at the French Open: singles, doubles with Yolande Vannoni and mixed with Richard Bergmann .

In July 1949 she was ranked seventh in the ITTF world rankings .

Private

Margaret Franks is the daughter of a boxer. In January 1950 she married the English table tennis player Ronald Hook, with whom she has a son. The couple work in a toy factory in Walthamstow (London).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 32 last 16 last 64
CLOSELY World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 last 16 last 32
CLOSELY World Championship 1952 Bombay IND last 16 Quarter finals Quarter finals 3
CLOSELY World Championship 1951 Vienna AUT last 32 last 16 last 16 3
CLOSELY World Championship 1950 Budapest HUN last 16 Semifinals Quarter finals 3
CLOSELY World Championship 1949 Stockholm SWE Quarter finals Quarter finals Semifinals 2
CLOSELY World Championship 1948 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 gold Quarter finals 1
CLOSELY World Championship 1947 Paris FRA last 32 last 16 Semifinals 1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, February 1949, page 2 Online (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  2. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, September 1949, page 15 Online (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  3. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, October 1947, page 11 Online (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  4. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, February 1950, page 16 Online (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  5. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, October 1956, page 22 Online (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  6. ↑ Toy factory (accessed on August 22, 2014)
  7. ↑ Margaret Frank's results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 22, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Franks, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franks, Peggy (nickname); Hook, Margaret (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH before 1947