Douglas Cartland (table tennis)

Douglas Cartland
Personal information
Nationality United States
Born(1914-07-20)20 July 1914
Died29 July 2002(2002-07-29) (aged 88)
Medal record
Representing  United States
World Table Tennis Championships
1949 Men's Doubles
1949 Men's Team
1952 Men's Doubles

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Edwin Douglas Cartland in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007". Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  3. ^ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  5. ^ "The True Story Behind Marty Supreme: Separating the Fact From the Fiction". Esquire. 2025-12-26. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  6. ^ "Profile". USATT. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015.