Helen Elliot
Helen Elliott at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships, Bombay, India. She won the Bronze in Women's doubles. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Helen Elliotti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1927-01-20)20 January 1927 Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 January 2013(2013-01-12) (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 876 kg (1,931 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Helen Elliot (20 January 1927 – 12 January 2013)[1] was an international table tennis player from Scotland.
Table tennis career
Helen started playing table tennis aged 16. In 1946 she won the first of 13 consecutive Scottish Open women's singles titles and was capped by Scotland the following year.[2] From 1948 to 1957 she won seven medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]
The seven medals included two golds at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships and 1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles where she partnered Gizi Farkas and Dora Beregi respectively.[4]
She also won two English Open titles.
Personal life
She coached at Butlins Holiday Camps with Johnny Leach. She married and became Helen Hamilton-Elliot and was President of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Helen (Elliott) HAMILTON passed away". ettu.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ a b "Obituary". West Lothian Table Tennis Club. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
External links
- Helen Elliot Hamilton at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
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- 1928: Fanchette Flamm (AUT) & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1929: Erika Metzger & Mona Rüster (GER)
- 1930: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1931: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1932: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1933: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1934: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1935: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1936: Marie Kettnerová & Marie Šmídová (TCH)
- 1937: Vlasta Depetrisová & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1938: Vlasta Depetrisová & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1939: Hilde Bussmann & Gertrude Pritzi (GER)
- 1947: Gizella Farkas (HUN) & Gertrude Pritzi (AUT)
- 1948: Margaret Franks & Vera Thomas (ENG)
- 1949: Helen Elliot (SCO) & Gizella Farkas (HUN)
- 1950: Dora Beregi (ENG) & Helen Elliot (SCO)
- 1951: Diane Rowe & Rosalind Rowe (ENG)
- 1952: Shizuka Narahara & Tomie Nishimura (JPN)
- 1953: Gizella Gervai (HUN) & Angelica Rozeanu (ROU)
- 1954: Diane Rowe & Rosalind Rowe (ENG)
- 1955: Angelica Rozeanu & Ella Zeller (ROU)
- 1956: Angelica Rozeanu & Ella Zeller (ROU)
- 1957: Lívia Mossóczy & Agnes Simon (HUN)
- 1959: Taeko Namba & Kazuko Yamaizumi (JPN)
- 1961: Maria Alexandru & Georgeta Pitică (ROU)
- 1963: Kimiyo Matsuzaki & Masako Seki (JPN)
- 1965: Lin Huiqing & Zheng Minzhi (CHN)
- 1967: Saeko Hirota & Sachiko Morisawa (JPN)
- 1969: Svetlana Grinberg & Zoja Rudnova (URS)
- 1971: Lin Huiqing & Zheng Minzhi (CHN)
- 1973: Maria Alexandru (ROU) & Miho Hamada (JPN)
- 1975: Maria Alexandru (ROU) & Shoko Takahashi (JPN)
- 1977: Pak Yong-ok (PRK) & Yang Ying (born 1953) (CHN)
- 1979: Zhang Deying & Zhang Li (CHN)
- 1981: Cao Yanhua & Zhang Deying (CHN)
- 1983: Dai Lili & Shen Jianping (CHN)
- 1985: Dai Lili & Geng Lijuan (CHN)
- 1987: Hyun Jung-hwa & Yang Young-ja (KOR)
- 1989: Deng Yaping & Qiao Hong (CHN)
- 1991: Chen Zihe & Gao Jun (CHN)
- 1993: Liu Wei & Qiao Yunping (CHN)
- 1995: Deng Yaping & Qiao Hong (CHN)
- 1997: Deng Yaping & Yang Ying (born 1977) (CHN)
- 1999: Li Ju & Wang Nan (CHN)
- 2001: Li Ju & Wang Nan (CHN)
- 2003: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2005: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2007: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2009: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2011: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2013: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2015: Liu Shiwen & Zhu Yuling (CHN)
- 2017: Ding Ning & Liu Shiwen (CHN)
- 2019: Sun Yingsha & Wang Manyu (CHN)
- 2021: Sun Yingsha & Wang Manyu (CHN)
- 2023: Chen Meng & Wang Yidi (CHN)