Kenneth Craigie

{{short description|English table tennis player}}

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Kenneth Ronald Craigie (15 April 1924 – 8 November 2003), better known as Ken Craigie, was an English international table tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=kenneth-craigie-130101|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}

Table tennis career

Craigie won a bronze medal at the 1954 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}}

He coached the twin sisters Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe at the West Ealing Table Tennis Club.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rosalind-rowe-table-tennis-player-who-became-a-multiple-world-champion-before-retiring-at-the-age-of-10391562.html|title=Rosalind Rowe: Table tennis player who became a multiple world champion before retiring at the age of 22 to get married|work=The Independent}}

Personal life and death

Craigie was born in Lambeth, London on 15 April 1924. He died after a long illness in Richmond, Surrey on 8 November 2003, at the age of 79.{{cite web |title=Ken Craigie obituary |url=https://www.bridgewebs.com/surrey/Obituary%20-%20KEN%20%20CRAIGIE.pdf |website=Bridge Webs |access-date=8 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Mr. Kenneth Ronald Craigie |url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60630&h=6076143&tid=&pid=&queryId=6a182038eaee35fb4fb28504659ea5ea&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Dqh1708&_phstart=successSource&_gl=1*1w4ob7j*_ga*MTE5NjUxMzc1LjE2Mjg3OTI3Mjc.*_ga_4PXYE4RLH1*MTY0MTYwNzExNS40OC4xLjE2NDE2MDgyOTcuMA.. |publisher=England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2019 |access-date=8 January 2022}}

See also

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