Kenneth Craigie
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| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 April 1924 Lambeth, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 November 2003 (aged 79) Richmond, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
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Kenneth Ronald Craigie (15 April 1924 – 8 November 2003), better known as Ken Craigie, was an English international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit]Craigie won a bronze medal at the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) event with Richard Bergmann, Johnny Leach, Aubrey Simons and Harry Venner for England.[2]
He coached the twin sisters Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe at the West Ealing Table Tennis Club.[3]
Personal life and death
[edit]Craigie was born in Lambeth, London on 15 April 1924. He died after a long illness in Richmond, Surrey on 8 November 2003, at the age of 79.[4][5]
See also
[edit]- List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Rosalind Rowe: Table tennis player who became a multiple world champion before retiring at the age of 22 to get married". The Independent.
- ^ "Ken Craigie obituary" (PDF). Bridge Webs. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "Mr. Kenneth Ronald Craigie". England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2019. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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