Maureen Heppell

Maureen Heppell

Personal information
Nationality	England
Born	1949 Northumberland, England

Maureen Heppell is a female former international table tennis player from England. ^[1]

Table tennis career

She represented England at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Karenza Smith and Mary Shannon-Wright. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Personal life

Her father Len Heppell (a ballroom dancer) helped train Pop Robson after Robson had met Maureen on the table tennis circuit. ^[5] Len went on to help many leading football players and managers and Maureen married Robson. ^{[6] [7]}

See also

• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships

References

1. "Juniors Set the Pace - page 9" (PDF). Table Tennis Guide.
2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
3. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
4. "1967 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
5. "The Shearer parallel appeals to Robson, Newcastle's hero of '69" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
6. "Tributes to dance hero who inspired the stars". The Journal.
7. "The Shearer parallel appeals to Robson, Newcastle's hero of '69" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2021.