Rosalind Rowe
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| Full name | Rosalind Rowe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 April 1933 Marylebone, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 June 2015 (aged 82) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rosalind Cornett (née Rowe) (14 April 1933 – 15 June 2015) was a British table tennis player who multiple competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships between 1951 and 1955.[1]
Table tennis career
From 1951 to 1955 she won 14 medals in single, double, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships,[2] many of them together with her twin sister Diane.[3]
The 14 World Championship medals[4] [5] included two gold medals in the doubles at the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships and 1954 World Table Tennis Championships.[6] [7]
She also won nine English Open titles.
Personal Life
In 1955 the sisters published a book, The twins on table tennis.[8] Their father was former amateur footballer Vivian Rowe.[9]
See also
- List of table tennis players
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
References
- ^ Rosalind Rowe, sportswoman - obituary. Telegraph.co.uk (24 June 2015). Retrieved on 2016-07-20.
- ^ ROWE Rosalind (ENG). ittf.com
- ^ Happy birthday Diane and Rosalind, national heroines. ettu.org. 15 April 2013.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe (1955). 'The twins' on table tennis.
- ^ Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 138. ISBN 978-0955294914.
