Margaret Franks
{{short description|British table tennis player}}
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{{Infobox table tennis player
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| birth_date = {{circa}} 1925
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{{MedalSport | Women's table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze | 1952 Bombay | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1951 Vienna | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1950 Budapest | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1950 Budapest | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1949 Stockholm | Mixed}}
{{MedalSilver | 1949 Stockholm | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1948 Wembley | Doubles}}
{{MedalGold | 1948 Wembley | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1947 Paris | Mixed}}
{{MedalGold | 1947 Paris | Team}}
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Margaret 'Peggy' Franks (born {{circa}} 1925){{cite news |title=St Georgians beaten at Exeter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-express/125200712/ |access-date=23 May 2023 |work=Herald Express |date=20 November 1946}} is a former table tennis player from England.
Table tennis career
From 1947 to 1952 she won ten medals in singles, 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=2134| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120621/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2134| archive-date = 2014-08-26| title = ITTF_Database}}
The ten medals included three gold medals;{{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}} two in team events with England at the
1947 World Table Tennis Championships and 1948 World Table Tennis Championships and one in the women's doubles with Vera Thomas in 1948.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=margaret-franks-129593|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
She also won an English Open title.
Personal life
She married Kent and Essex county player Ronnie Hook on 12 January 1950.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1949-50/tt_issue65.pdf|title=Table Tennis Romance|publisher=Table Tennis England}}
See also
References
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Category:English female table tennis players
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
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