Margaret Rinn McLean (later Folke; July 8, 1926 – March 30, 2013) was an American 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.
Table tennis career
McLean won two World Championship medals including a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
in the women's team event at the
1949 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1949 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Stockholm from February 4 to February 10, 1949.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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In addition she won a mixed doubles
bronze medal
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with
Marty Reisman
Martin 'Marty' Reisman (February 1, 1930 – December 7, 2012) was an American champion table tennis player and author. He was the 1958 and 1960 U.S. Men's singles champion and the 1997 U.S. hardbat champion.
Table tennis career
Reisman started ...
in 1949. She also won two
English Open
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titles.
Later life and death
McLean was inducted into the USA Hall of Fame in 1980.
McLean died in
Westport, Connecticut on March 30, 2013, at the age of 86.
See also
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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 is ...
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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
1926 births
2013 deaths
20th-century American women
American female table tennis players
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