Joanna Drinkhall (née Parker, born 10 June 1987) is a British table tennis player.
Career
editShe grew up in Chertsey. She trained at the national academy in Nottingham, from 1999 to 2003. Then she played for a Berlin club. She is currently playing in France for TT Saint Quentin.[1][when?]
Joanna has won national singles titles at U12, Cadet, Junior, U21 and Senior levels, girls’ doubles titles at U12, Cadet and Junior and both women's and mixed doubles at Senior level.[2]
She won a bronze medal at the 2009 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles.
She won a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the mixed doubles with Paul Drinkhall.[3] This was the first Commonwealth table tennis medal won by an English woman.[4]
She competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[5] In Women's singles, in round 1, she defeated Caroline Kumahara, but in the second round, she lost to Kristin Silbereisen. In Women's team, the team lost to Korea in their first match.[6]
In June 2014, she was ranked No 1 in England[7] and 109th in the world.[8]
Joanna and Paul Drinkhall won gold in the mixed doubles competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, defeating fellow English pairing Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho in the final.[9]
Personal life
editParker married Paul Drinkhall, a British table tennis player in August 2013.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Site du TTSQ - Tennis de Table de St-Quentin". www.tennis-table-saint-quentin.fr.
- ^ "Mark Bates Ltd National Championships". Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Joanna Parker: Table Tennis | Featured Athletes | Extras | London Games | BBC America". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Joanna Drinkhall Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Olympics | Olympic Games, Medals, Results & Latest News". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Joanna Parker Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "World ranking". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014: Paul and Joanna Drinkhall win mixed doubles gold". bbc.co.uk. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ "Home".
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