Vera Thomas

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Vera Thomas (Dace)
Personal information
Full nameVera Thomas (Dace)
Nationality England
Born(1921-12-03)3 December 1921
Died9 July 1995(1995-07-09) (aged 73)
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  England
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place1950 BudapestDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1950 BudapestTeam
Silver medal – second place1948 WembleySingles
Gold medal – first place1948 WembleyDoubles
Gold medal – first place1948 WembleyTeam
Bronze medal – third place1947 ParisSingles
Gold medal – first place1947 ParisTeam
Vera Thomas (Dace)
Country (sports) United Kingdom
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open2R (1946)
Wimbledon4R (1948)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQF (1946, 1954)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
WimbledonQF (1946)

Vera Sybil Thomas (née Dace; 3 December 1921 – 9 July 1995) was an English international table tennis and tennis player.

Table tennis career

She won seven medals[1] at the World Table Tennis Championships including three gold medals; two in the team events and one as a member of the winning doubles team in the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships with Peggy Franks.[2][3][4][5] She also won three English Open titles.

Tennis career

As a tennis player she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1946 and 1961. Her best result in the singles was reaching the fourth round in 1948 in which she lost to Nelly Landry.[6]

Personal life

She married Arthur Thomas in 1947 and became Vera Thomas-Dace.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  4. ↑ "stats".
  5. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  6. ↑ "Wimbledon players archive – Vera Thomas (Dace)". AELTC.