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

Percival Bromfield
Personal information
Nationality England
BornApril 1886
Birmingham, England
Died1947(1947-00-00) (aged 60–61)
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1926 Men's Team

Table tennis career

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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]

See also

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References

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  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.