Maureen Heppell
Personal information
Nationality England
Born1949
Northumberland

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

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.


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