John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]
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| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 1886 Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1947 (aged 60–61) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editHe won a bronze medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event.[2]
He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking [3] He also won two English Open titles.
Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "John Percival Bromfield" (PDF). The Table Tennis Collector.
- ^ "Perry, Bull and Haydon-They Knew the Way to Win, page 11" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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