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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 4 August 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 April 1945 | (aged 32)||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dora M Emdin (4 August 1912 – 9 April 1945)[1][2] was a female English international table tennis player.[3]
She won a bronze medal at the 1934 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's singles.[4][5]
She won another bronze at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles with Margaret Osborne and a silver medal in the women's team. She also won five English Open titles.
Her older sister Doris Lucy Emdin was also a notable table tennis international.[6]
She married Jack Zillwood in 1940 and died, aged 32, after a short illness in 1945.