Adele Wood

Adele Wood
Personal information
Nationality England
Born1932 (1932)
Manchester, England
Died (aged 92)
Medal record
Representing  England
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second place1949Women's Team

Adele Wood (1932 – 30 May 2024) was an English international table tennis player.

Biography

Wood was born in Manchester, England in 1932. She won a silver medal at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Pinkie Barnes, Joan Crosby and Peggy Franks for England.

She played her last representative match in 1958, after marrying Len Pettifer. Wood died on 30 May 2024, at the age of 92.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ↑ "Birth registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Cohen, Leslie (11 February 1948). "Adele Wood in Good Form". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Adele plays in last big game". Manchester Evening News. 3 April 1958. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Both Pettifers in semi-finals". Evening Post. 23 April 1963. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Adele Pettifer". The Mail. 5 June 2024. Retrieved 12 December 2025.