Nancy Evans (table tennis player)

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Nancy Evans (* 1903 , † 28. July 1998 in Cardiff ) was one of the leading table tennis players from Wales as well as a functionary .

Player

Before and after World War II , Nancy Evans was the strongest table tennis player in Wales. She won all of Wales' individual championships from 1935 to 1946, a total of six times. No championships were held in Wales from 1940 to 1945. From 1935 to 1950 she took part in five world championships for Wales .

Functionary

In 1944 she took over the office of general secretary of the Table Tennis Association of Wales Ltd. She held this office until 1989. When the European Table Tennis Association ETTU was founded , she was a member of the first presidium. From 1960 to 1984 she was Secretary General of the ETTU.

In her honor, the European Exhibition Cities Cup was renamed the ETTU Nancy Evans Cup in 1984 .

Private

In 1933 she married Roy Evans , who later became president of the world table tennis association ITTF .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
WHALE  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   no participants  last 16  last 64  9 
WHALE  World Championship  1949  Stockholm  SWE   no participants  last 16  last 32  7th 
WHALE  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   last 64  last 16  last 64  5 
WHALE  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 32  Quarter finals  last 64  4th 
WHALE  World Championship  1935  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 32  last 16  last 16  6th 

literature

  • Nancy Evans passed away. In: DTS magazine . 8, 1998, p. 33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/archives/index.html - select "1975 Calcutta", first page (accessed on September 1, 2010)
  2. ↑ ETTU History ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 9, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ettu.org
  3. ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Nancy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh table tennis player and official
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1998
Place of death Cardiff