Kathleen Best (table tennis)

Best won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).^[2][3] The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.^[4]

At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.

Best married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952, in Yorkshire, and won two English Open titles. She died in Leeds on 5 October 2003, at the age of 70.^[5][6]

• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists