Joan Sophie Crosby (née Brock; 1920–2013) was an English international table tennis player.[2]
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| Birth name | Joan Sophie Brock | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1920 Exeter, Devon, England[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2013 (aged 92–93) Devon, England | |||||||||||||||||
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Table tennis career edit
Crosby won double silver at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's team event[3][4] and the women's doubles with Pinkie Barnes.[5]
Personal life edit
Joan Brock married Donald "Driver" Peter Crosby in Exeter in September 1940.[6] She died in Devon in 2013.[7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Birth registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "1949 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Late Advertisements". Express and Echo. 26 September 1940. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- ^ "Joan Sophie Crosby death record". GRO Index. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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