Personal information | |
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Nationality | British (English) |
Born | Kobe, Japan | 8 March 2002
Sport | |
Sport | Table tennis |
Club | SV Böblingen (Germany) |
Charlotte Bardsley (born 8 March 2002) is an English international table tennis player. [1] Though born in Kobe (Japan), she lives in the West Midlands of the UK. She is a junior national champion and has represented England at the Commonwealth Games. [2]
Bardsley joined the senior World Cup and European Championship squads and competed at the ITTF Team World Cup. [3] She became the national junior champion in the women's singles at the 2021 English National Table Tennis Championships, [4] [1] and the U21 champion at the 2022 English National Table Tennis Championships.
In 2022, she was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where she competed in four events; the women's singles, the women's doubles, the mixed doubles and the women's team events. [2] [3]
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