{{Short description|English table tennis player}} {{For|the American poet|Mary Eulalie Shannon}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox table tennis player | name = Mary Shannon (Wright) | image =Mary Shannon 1963.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Mary Shannon in 1963 | fullname = |nickname = | education = | nationality = {{GBR}} | playingstyle = | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|12 February 1944}}<ref name=r1>{{cite journal|journal=Table Tennis|date=March 1964|page=6|volume=181|author=Roger Morris|title=Harrison Conquers Barnes|url=http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1963-64/tt_issue181.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2016|access-date=6 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194712/http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1963-64/tt_issue181.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Table tennis}} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships}} {{MedalBronze |1969 Munich| Mixed doubles}} {{MedalBronze | 1965 Hala Tivoli| Team}} {{MedalSilver | 1963 Prague|Doubles}} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships}} {{MedalBronze | 1970 Moscow |Mixed doubles}} {{MedalBronze| 1968 Lyon | Singles}} {{MedalBronze| 1968 Lyon | Doubles}} {{MedalBronze| 1968 Lyon | Mixed doubles}} {{MedalBronze| 1966 London | Doubles}} {{MedalSilver| 1966 London | Mixed doubles}} {{MedalGold| 1964 Malmo | Doubles}} {{MedalGold| 1964 Malmo | Team}} {{MedalGold| 1962 Berlin | Doubles}} {{MedalSilver| 1962 Berlin| Team}} }}
'''Mary Shannon''' (married name Mary Wright), (born 12 February 1944) is a retired English table tennis player.
==Table tennis career== She won several medals at the world and European championships between 1962 and 1970, including three gold medals in 1962–1964.<ref>[http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=7846 WRIGHT-SHANNON Mary (ENG)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102061237/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=7846 |date=2 January 2016 }}. ittf.com</ref>
She also won seven English Open titles.
==Personal life== Shannon worked as a radiographer.<ref>Zeitschrift DTS, 1964/23, pp. 1, 6</ref> On 4 September 1965, she married Brian Wright, her frequent partner in mixed doubles competitions.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Table Tennis|date=October 1965|volume=192|pages=12–13|author=Ken Matthews|title=Now Mr. & Mrs.|url=http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1965-66/tt_issue192.pdf|archive-date=20 September 2020|access-date=6 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920182606/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1965-66/tt_issue192.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> They had three children.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Table Tennis|date=March 1973|page=14|title=Table Tennis Journal}}</ref>
==See also== * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
==References== {{Commons category|Mary Shannon}} {{Reflist}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shannon, Mary}} Category:English female table tennis players Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists Category:20th-century English sportswomen
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