Jessie 'Jay' Purves was an international table tennis player from the United States.[1]
| Jessie 'Jay' Purves | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jessie Lydia Purves | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editShe 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
editShe was inducted into the USA Hall of Fame in 1979 months after her death.[6][7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Jessie "Jay" Purves". United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees". USATT. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015.
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