Jessie Purves

Jessie 'Jay' Purves was an international table tennis player from the United States.^[1]

Jessie 'Jay' Purves
Full name	Jessie Lydia Purves
Nationality	United States
Died	January 1979
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  United States World Championships 1937 Baden Team 1936 Prague Doubles 1936 Prague Team

Table tennis career

She won two World Championship medals^[2] including a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships.^[3][4][5]

Hall of Fame

She was inducted into the USA Hall of Fame in 1979 months after her death.^[6][7]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
3. "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
5. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
6. "Jessie "Jay" Purves". United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
7. "Hall of Fame Inductees". USATT. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015.