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British table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cecilia 'Kathleen' Best (married name Thompson), was a female English international table tennis player.[1]
She won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).[2][3] The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.[4]
At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.
She married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952 in Yorkshire and won two English Open titles.
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