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British table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]
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Born | April 1886 Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 1947 60–61) | (aged||||||||||||||
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He won a bronze medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event.[2]
He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking [3] He also won two English Open titles.
Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.[4]
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