Cecilia 'Kathleen' Best (married name Thompson), was a female

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international

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player. She won a

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at the

1952 World Table Tennis Championships The 1952 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Bombay from 1 to 10 February 1952.The 1952 World Championships were marked by the arrival of the Japanese as a Table Tennis force on the world scene. In another first the Chief Referee of th ...

in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). The following year 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 {{World Table Tennis Championships Wor ...

she won two medals; a

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in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with

Ermelinde Wertl Ermelinde Wertl was an Austrian international table tennis player. She won nine World Table Tennis Championship medals from the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships to the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships. She married a physician in 1954 ...

. At the

1954 World Table Tennis Championships The 1954 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Wembley from April 5 to April 14, 1954. Medalists Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Tab ...

she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with

Ann Haydon-Jones Ann Shirley Jones, (née Adrianne Haydon on 17 October 1938, also known as Ann Haydon-Jones) is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in wome ...

. She married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952 in Yorkshire and won two

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titles.

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1933 births Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists English female table tennis players {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub

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