Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead (1916-2003) was a female former international table tennis player from England.

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. It was the first time they had paired together for a tournament.

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She also won four English Open titles.

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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. She died in 2003, in Penrith, Cumbria.

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Wendy & Martin had two children. Belinda & Timothy.

See also

List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

External links

History of USA Table Tennis Volume 1 - Chapter 27 Retrieved 2013-01-24

English female table tennis players

1916 births

2003 deaths