Percival Bromfield
British table tennis player
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John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male English international table tennis player.[1]
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| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 1886 Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1947 (aged 60–61) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
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