Rosalind Rowe
Richard Bergmann with Diane and Rosalind Rowe (right) in 1953
Personal information
Full nameRosalind Rowe
Nationality England
Born(1933-04-14)14 April 1933
Marylebone, London, England
Died15 June 2015(2015-06-15) (aged 82)
Medal record
Table tennis
Representing  England
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1955 Utrecht Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Utrecht Team
Gold medal – first place 1954 Wembley Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1954 Wembley Mixed Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1954 Wembley Team
Bronze medal – third place 1953 Bucharest Singles
Silver medal – second place 1953 Bucharest Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1953 Bucharest Team
Bronze medal – third place 1952 Bombay Singles
Silver medal – second place 1952 Bombay Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1952 Bombay Mixed Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1952 Bombay Team
Gold medal – first place 1951 Vienna Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1951 Vienna Team

Rosalind Cornett (née Rowe) (14 April 1933 – 15 June 2015) was a British table tennis player who multiple competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships between 1951 and 1955.[1]

Table tennis career

Rowe, and her twin sister Diane, were selected to play table tennis for England at age sixteen and toured Czechoslovakia.[2] From 1951 to 1955 she won 14 medals in single, double, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships,[3] many of them together with her twin sister[4] The pair were coached by Victor Barna.[2]

The 14 World Championship medals[5][6] included two gold medals in the doubles at the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships and 1954 World Table Tennis Championships.[7][8]

Biography

Rowe was born in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Hammersmith, London on 14 April 1933, the older twin sisters by 10 minutes. Her father, Ronald George Rowe was an account clerk and her mother was Edith, née Delany. Both her father, and uncle Vivian Rowe, played football for Brentford F.C. and Wimbledon F.C. Both she and her sister worked as secretarial administrators professionally, using their free time for table tennis, writing and public appearances.[2] In 1955 she and her sister Diane published a book, The twins on table tennis.[9]

Rowe took on a role at Dunlop company, to promote their products, such as table-tennis bats.[2] Rowe married John Arthur Cornett, a doctor, on 8 October 1955 and they had four children together. Upon her marriage, she retired from competitive table tennis. She lived in Sittingbourne, Kent until her death on 15 June 2015 at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Rosalind Rowe, sportswoman - obituary. Telegraph.co.uk (24 June 2015). Retrieved on 2016-07-20.
  2. ^ a b c d e Williams, Jean (10 January 2019). "Rowe, Rosalind (1933–2015)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. ^ ROWE Rosalind (ENG). ittf.com
  4. ^ Happy birthday Diane and Rosalind, national heroines. ettu.org. 15 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  6. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  7. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  8. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  9. ^ Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe (1955). 'The twins' on table tennis.
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