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| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 July 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 July 2002 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Edwin Douglas Cartland (July 20, 1914 - July 29, 2002) [1] was a male United States international table tennis player. [2]
He won three bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships; two at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team and in the men's doubles with Dick Miles. [3] [4] His third bronze came in 1952 at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's doubles with Marty Reisman.
After Cartland and Reisman received a bronze medal, they spent months playing matches in Asia in order to raise funds to travel back to Japan and get a rematch. [5]
He was inducted into the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984 and in 1953 the Barnes Sports Library published his book called 'Table Tennis Illustrated'. [6]
