Arthur 'Adrian' Haydon (1911 – 12 September 1973) was a male international
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from
England
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.
Table tennis career
He started playing table tennis aged just 7 years-old. During the 1927-28 season he was world ranked 6.
He won fourteen medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include me ...
from 1928 to 1953, including a
gold medal at the
1953 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1953 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Floreasca and Dynamo Halls in Bucharest from March 20 to March 29, 1953.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External links
ITTF Museum
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in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event).
Personal life
He married international player
Doris Jordan in 1938.
He is the father of
Ann Haydon Jones, a finalist at the World Table Tennis Championships and a
Grand Slam winner in tennis.
He also played for the
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class cricket, first-class county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic counties of England, historic county of W ...
2nd XI.
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See also
* List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers i ...
* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
*
References
English male table tennis players
1911 births
1973 deaths
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