Margaret Osborne (table tennis)

Lucy Margaret Knott (née Osborne, 7 July 1913 – c. April 1987) was an English international table tennis and tennis player.[1]

Margaret Osborne Knott
Personal information
Nationality England
Born(1913-07-07)7 July 1913
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England
DiedApril 1987(1987-04-00) (aged 73)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place1935Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place1937Women's doubles
Silver medal – second place1938Women's team
Bronze medal – third place1938Women's doubles
Gold medal – first place1947Women's team

Table tennis career

Osborne won five World Table Tennis Championship medals;[2] In the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships she won a mixed doubles bronze medal with Adrian Haydon and two years later she won another bronze with Wendy Woodhead in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships.

Two more medals were won during the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the singles and in the doubles with Dora Emdin. A gold medal was finally won when she was a member of the winning team in the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships.[3][4] She also won eight English Open titles.

Tennis career

She played at The Championships, Wimbledon, listed as Mrs B. W. Knott, from 1949 to 1952.[5]

Personal life and death

Osborne was born in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire on 7 July 1913.[6][7] She married Basil W. Knott on 25 January 1947, in Edgbaston, Birmingham.[8] She played under the name Margaret Knott thereafter. She died in Birmingham in 1987, at the age of 73.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Knott, Margaret". Table Tennis Guide. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  4. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  5. "Player profile – Margaret Knott". Wimbledon. AELTC.
  6. "Osborne, Lucy M." FreeBMD. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  7. "Lucy Margaret Knott". England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  8. "Miss M. Osborne married". Birmingham Gazette. 30 January 1947. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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