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| Full name | Pauline Wendy Woodhead (Burbush) | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1916 Oxfordshire | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 2003 (aged 86) Cumberland | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pauline 'Wendy' Woodhead (1916-2003) was a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]
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.[2][3] It was the first time they had paired together for a tournament.[4]
She also won four English Open titles.
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.[5] She died in 2003, in Penrith, Cumbria.
Wendy & Martin had two children. Belinda & Timothy.
