Percival Bromfield

Percival Bromfield

Personal information
Nationality	England
Born	April 1886 Birmingham, England
Died	1947(1947-00-00) (aged 60–61)
Medal record Representing  England World Table Tennis Championships 1926 Men's Team

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

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]

See also

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

References

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.