Margaret Osborne (table tennis)
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  England |
| Born | 7 July 1913 Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | April 1987 (aged 73) Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
Lucy Margaret Knott (née Osborne, 7 July 1913 – c. April 1987) was an English international table tennis and tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
Osborne won five
World Table Tennis Championship medals;[2] In the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships she won a mixed doubles bronze medal with Adrian Haydon and two years later she won another bronze with Wendy Woodhead in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships
.
Two more medals were won during the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the singles and in the doubles with Dora Emdin. A gold medal was finally won when she was a member of the winning team in the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships.[3][4] She also won eight English Open titles.
Tennis career
She played at
The Championships, Wimbledon, listed as Mrs B. W. Knott, from 1949 to 1952.[5]
Personal life and death
Osborne was born in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire on 7 July 1913.[6][7] She married Basil W. Knott on 25 January 1947, in Edgbaston, Birmingham.[8] She played under the name Margaret Knott thereafter. She died in Birmingham in 1987, at the age of 73.[7]
See also
- List of table tennis players
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
References
- ^ "Knott, Margaret". Table Tennis Guide. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- AELTC.
- ^ "Osborne, Lucy M." FreeBMD. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Lucy Margaret Knott". England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Miss M. Osborne married". Birmingham Gazette. 30 January 1947. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
