Bernard Crouch
{{short description|English tennis and table tennis player}}
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Bernard Crouch (1925 – 2 December 1955), was a male international table tennis and tennis player from England.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=bernard-crouch-130082|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Table tennis career
Crouch won a bronze medal at the 1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) event with Richard Bergmann, Johnny Leach, Aubrey Simons and Harry Venner for England.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123|access-date=2018-03-14|archive-date=2018-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|url-status=dead}}
He won the Wilmott Cup for the Staines League in 1954/55 and was also on the Middlesex County Championships winning side in 1947–48 and 1949–50 to 1955.{{cite web|author=Webb, Diane|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/featured-news/friday-photos-no-55-a-tribute-to-bernard-crouch/|title=Friday Photos No 58: A tribute to Bernard Crouch|publisher=Table Tennis England|date=13 May 2015|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-date=10 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210124123/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/featured-news/friday-photos-no-55-a-tribute-to-bernard-crouch/|url-status=dead}}
Tennis career
Crouch was an excellent tennis player and a regular member of the Surrey County side. He was a finalist at the Middlesex Championships in 1948. He also played at Wimbledon on several occasions from 1950 to 1954.
Death
Crouch died in the 1955 Barnes railway accident.
See also
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Category:English male table tennis players
Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Category:English male tennis players
Category:British male tennis players
Category:Railway accident deaths in England
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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