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'''Joan S. Crosby''' ({{née}} '''Brock'''; born 1920) was an English international [[table tennis]] player.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=joan-crosby-130085|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}</ref>
'''Joan Sophie Crosby''' ({{née}} '''Brock'''; 1920–2013) was an English international [[table tennis]] player.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=joan-crosby-130085|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}</ref>


==Table tennis career==
==Table tennis career==
Crosby won double [[silver medal|silver]] at the [[1949 World Table Tennis Championships]] in the women's team event<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|title=Corbillon Cup results|publisher=tischtennis-infos.de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1948-49/tt_issue56.pdf|title=1949 Corbillon Cup results|publisher=Table Tennis England}}</ref> and the women's doubles with [[Pinkie Barnes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf|title=Women's doubles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-12}}</ref>
Crosby won double [[silver medal|silver]] at the [[1949 World Table Tennis Championships]] in the women's team event<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|title=Corbillon Cup results|publisher=tischtennis-infos.de|access-date=7 May 2018|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1948-49/tt_issue56.pdf|title=1949 Corbillon Cup results|publisher=Table Tennis England|access-date=7 May 2018|archive-date=25 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925140430/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1948-49/tt_issue56.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the women's doubles with [[Pinkie Barnes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf|title=Women's doubles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-12}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Joan Brock married Donald "Driver" Peter Crosby in [[Exeter]] in September 1940.<ref>{{cite news |title=Late Advertisements |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=joan%20brock%20crosby&retrievecountrycounts=false |access-date=2 February 2023 |publisher=Express and Echo |date=26 September 1940}}</ref> She died in Devon in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joan Sophie Crosby death record |url=https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp#Results |website=GRO Index |access-date=2 February 2023}}</ref>
Joan Brock married Donald Crosby in 1940.


==See also==
==See also==
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[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:Possibly living people]]
[[Category:2013 deaths]]
[[Category:English female table tennis players]]
[[Category:English female table tennis players]]
[[Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists]]
[[Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists]]

Revision as of 11:30, 14 August 2023

Joan Crosby
Personal information
Birth nameJoan Sophie Brock
Nationality England
Born1920
Exeter, Devon, England[1]
Died2013(2013-00-00) (aged 92–93)
Devon, England
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second place 1949 Women's Team
Silver medal – second place 1949 Women's Doubles

Joan Sophie Crosby (née Brock; 1920–2013) was an English international table tennis player.[2]

Table tennis career

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

Joan Brock married Donald "Driver" Peter Crosby in Exeter in September 1940.[6] She died in Devon in 2013.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Birth registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  3. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  4. ^ "1949 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Late Advertisements". Express and Echo. 26 September 1940. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Joan Sophie Crosby death record". GRO Index. Retrieved 2 February 2023.