Nicholas 'Nicky' Jarvis is a male former international
table tennis
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player from England.
Table tennis career
He represented England at three
World Table Tennis Championships
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in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) from 1973-1979.
He won two
English National Table Tennis Championships
The English National Table Tennis Championships are run by the English Table Tennis Association. The first championships were held in 1960. Desmond Douglas has won the most singles titles with 11, whilst the leading woman is Jill Parker-Hammersle ...
titles. He later became the head coach of the National team and Head Performance coach & Technical Manager at the
English Table Tennis Association
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.
Personal life
He married
Linda Howard
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Biography
She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own en ...
in 1979 and their son is professional footballer
Matt Jarvis
Matthew Thomas Jarvis (born 22 May 1986) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
After an unsuccessful spell as a youth-team player for Millwall, Jarvis began his professional career with Gillingham, making his ...
.
See also
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References
English male table tennis players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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