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Adele Wood is an English former international table tennis player. [3]
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Adele Wood is an English former international table tennis player. [3]
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. [4]
Wood played her last representative match in 1958, after marrying Len Pettifer. [5] [6]
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