Kathleen Best

Cecilia Kathleen Best (8 January 1933 – 5 October 2003) was an English international table tennis player.

Biography Best won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.

At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.

Best married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952, in Yorkshire, and won two English Open titles. She died in Leeds on 5 October 2003, at the age of 70.