Kathleen Best

Personal information
Nationality	England
Born	(1933-01-08)8 January 1933 Yorkshire, England
Died	10 May 2004(2004-05-10) (aged 71) Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Medal record Representing  England World Table Tennis Championships 1952 Women's Team 1953 Women's Team 1953 Women's Doubles 1954 Women's Team 1954 Women's Doubles

Cecilia Kathleen Best (née Thompson; 8 January 1933 – 10 May 2004) was an English international table tennis player.^[1]

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 10 May 2004, at the age of 71.^[5]

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