Betty Gray
- August 20, 1920
- August 12, 2018
- 96 years
About Betty Gray
Betty Gray was a notable figure. Born in 1920, Gray died in 2018 at the age of 96.
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Full Biography
|Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea. She learnt the art of playing the tennis herself during the World War II.
She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Audrey Bates and Audrey Coombs for Wales.
She played more than 250 times for Wales and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.
Awards
She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.
Later life
Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died at age 96 in 2018.
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