Percival Bromfield

John Percival Bromfield (1886-1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]

Percival Bromfield
Personal information
Nationality England
BornApril 1886
Birmingham
Died1947(1947-00-00) (aged 60–61)
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place1926Men's Team

Table tennis career

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]

See also

References

  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  3. "John Percival Bromfield" (PDF). The Table Tennis Collector.
  4. "Perry, Bull and Haydon-They Knew the Way to Win, page 11" (PDF). Table Tennis England.


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