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Birth name | Dorothy Eleanor Gubbins | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Dolly | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dorothy 'Dolly' Gubbins (married name Dorothy Evans) was a Welsh international table tennis player.[1]
She won a silver medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's singles. Two years later she won a bronze medal in the women's singles[2] and another silver medal at the 1928 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles with Brenda Sommerville.[3] She also won three English Open titles.
She moved from Wales to Maidstone in Kent and her daughter June Evans was a county player for Kent.[4] She died in 1961.