James McClure (table tennis)
{{short description|American table tennis player}}
{{for|the soccer player|Jimmy McClure}}
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| fullname = James 'Jimmy' McClure
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| nationality = {{USA}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|9|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|2|12|1916|9|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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{{MedalSport | Men's table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze | 1949 Stockholm | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1938 Wembley | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1938 Wembley | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1937 Baden | Doubles}}
{{MedalGold | 1937 Baden | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1936 Prague | Doubles}}
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James McClure (September 28, 1916; Indianapolis, Indiana – February 12, 2005; Cape Coral, Florida) was an American international table tennis player.{{cite web | url=http://hosting-tributes-4995.tributes.com/show/James-McClure-89236678 | title=James McClure obituary | access-date=13 August 2015}}
Table tennis career
From 1936 to 1949 he won six medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=4612 |title=ITTF_Database |access-date=2011-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016155322/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=4612 |archive-date=2012-10-16 }} This included four gold medals; three in the doubles with Buddy Blattner and Sol Schiff respectively and one in the team event.{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
See also
References
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Category:American male table tennis players
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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