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| Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 August 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 April 1945 (aged 32) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Dora M Emdin (4 August 1912 – 9 April 1945)[1][2] was a female English international table tennis player.[3]
Table tennis career
She won a bronze medal at the 1934 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's singles.[4][5]
She won another bronze at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles with Margaret Osborne and a silver medal in the women's team. She also won five English Open titles.
Personal life
Her older sister Doris Lucy Emdin was also a notable table tennis international.[6]
She married Jack Zillwood in 1940 and died, aged 32, after a short illness in 1945.
See also
References
- ↑ "Free Births, Deaths and Marriages". FreeBMD.org.uk.
- ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ↑ "Women's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
- ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ↑ "History of U.S. Table Tennis Vol 1". USATT.
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