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| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1933-01-08)8 January 1933 Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 May 2004(2004-05-10) (aged 71) Leeds, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cecilia Kathleen Best (née Thompson; 8 January 1933 – 10 May 2004) was an English international table tennis player.
Biography
Best won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.
At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.
Best married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952, in Yorkshire, and won two English Open titles. She died in Leeds on 10 May 2004, at the age of 71.
See also
- List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- "1952 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
- "Cecilia Kathleen Thompson b. 1933". GRO Index. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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