Wendy Woodhead
{{short description|British table tennis player}}
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| fullname = Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush)
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| nationality = {{ENG}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|5|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Oxfordshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|1||1916|5|10|df=y}}
| death_place = Cumberland, England
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{{MedalSport | Women's table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver | 1937 Baden | Doubles}}
{{MedalGold | 1938 London | Mixed}}
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Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead (10 May 1916 – January 2003) was a female former international table tennis player from England.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=wendy-woodhead-125649|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Table tennis career
She won a silver medal with Margaret Osborne in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships. The following year she won a gold medal at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships with Laszlo Bellak.{{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}} It was the first time they had paired together for a tournament.{{cite web|url=https://rossmoorttc.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/news-article-11-26-2014.pdf|title=Laszlo Bellak article|publisher=}}
She also won four English Open titles.
Personal life
Her father Percy William Woodhead owned a tennis court and table tennis room where she learnt to play. She married Martin 'Bunny' Burbush in 1940.{{cite web|url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.pitchero.com/clubs/20117/vQZVfr4AS0Kx9jSAYF38_Chiltern%20History%202004.pdf|title=A HISTORY OF THE CLUB 1924-2004|publisher=Amersham & Chiltern RFC}} She died in 2003, in Penrith, Cumbria.
Wendy & Martin had two children. Belinda & Timothy.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121218232624/http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/USATT/History-of-USATT/Volume-I/Chapter-27.aspx History of USA Table Tennis Volume 1 - Chapter 27] Retrieved 2013-01-24
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Category:English female table tennis players
Category:20th-century English sportswomen
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