Rosalind Rowe
{{Short description|British table tennis player (1933–2015)}}
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{{Infobox table tennis player
| name = Rosalind Rowe
| image = Richard Bergmann, Diane and Rosalind Rowe 1953.jpg
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| caption = Richard Bergmann with Diane and Rosalind Rowe (right) in 1953
| fullname = Rosalind Rowe
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| nationality = {{ENG}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|04|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = Marylebone, London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|06|15|1933|4|14|df=y}}
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{{MedalSport | Table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver | 1955 Utrecht | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1955 Utrecht | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1954 Wembley | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1954 Wembley | Mixed Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1954 Wembley | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1953 Bucharest | Singles}}
{{MedalSilver | 1953 Bucharest | Doubles}}
{{MedalSilver | 1953 Bucharest | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1952 Bombay | Singles}}
{{MedalSilver | 1952 Bombay | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1952 Bombay | Mixed Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1952 Bombay | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1951 Vienna | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1951 Vienna | Team}}
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Rosalind Cornett (née Rowe) (14 April 1933{{spaced ndash}}15 June 2015) was a British table tennis player who multiple competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships between 1951 and 1955.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11696443/Rosalind-Rowe-sportswoman-obituary.html Rosalind Rowe, sportswoman - obituary]. Telegraph.co.uk (24 June 2015). Retrieved on 2016-07-20.
Table tennis career
Rowe, and her twin sister Diane, were selected to play table tennis for England at age sixteen and toured Czechoslovakia. From 1951 to 1955 she won 14 medals in single, double, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships,[http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=6097 ROWE Rosalind (ENG)]. ittf.com many of them together with her twin sister[http://www.ettu.org/2013/04/happy-birthday-diane-and-rosalind-hational-heroines/ Happy birthday Diane and Rosalind, national heroines]. ettu.org. 15 April 2013. The pair were coached by Victor Barna.
The 14 World Championship medals{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=rosalind-rowe-126870|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}} included two gold medals in the doubles at the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships and 1954 World Table Tennis Championships.{{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}}
Biography
Rowe was born in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Hammersmith, London on 14 April 1933, the older twin sisters by 10 minutes. Her father, Ronald George Rowe was an account clerk and her mother was Edith, née Delany. Both her father, and uncle Vivian Rowe, played football for Brentford F.C. and Wimbledon F.C. Both she and her sister worked as secretarial administrators professionally, using their free time for table tennis, writing and public appearances.{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Jean |title=Rowe, Rosalind (1933–2015) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-110538 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=1 May 2020 |date=10 January 2019|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110538 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }} In 1955 she and her sister Diane published a book, The twins on table tennis.{{cite book|author=Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe |year=1955|title='The twins' on table tennis|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/twins-table-tennis-diane-rosalind/dp/B0048O4ULY}}
Rowe took on a role at Dunlop company, to promote their products, such as table-tennis bats. Rowe married John Arthur Cornett, a doctor, on 8 October 1955 and they had four children together. Upon her marriage, she retired from competitive table tennis. She lived in Sittingbourne, Kent until her death on 15 June 2015 at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham.
See also
References
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Category:English female table tennis players
Category:People from Marylebone
Category:Sportspeople from the City of Westminster