Andrew Baggaley
Table tennis, Olympic athlete
1983 –
Who is Andrew Baggaley?
Andrew Baggaley is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes.
Andrew Baggaley is England's leading medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games winning 2 Gold Medals in Manchester, England, 1 Silver Medal in Melbourne, Australia, and 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal in Delhi, India.
He started playing the sport with his mother Yvonne in the back garden of the family home in Milton Keynes in the Summer of 1987 aged 4 and has been coached almost exclusively by his brother Stephen Baggaley throughout his career.
He is a triple English Men’s Singles National Champion by winning the senior title in Sheffield in 2002, 2008 and 2010.
At the time, his 2002 victory aged just 19 was the youngest winner of the Men’s Singles National Title for 40 years and he is still only one of 3 teenage winners of the Title.
He also became the youngest ever British Men’s Singles Champion aged 15 when he won the British Home Countries Title in Oban, Scotland.
Andrew Baggaley became Britain’s youngest ever professional table tennis Player by signing terms to play for Brussels-based Belgian National League team TTC Logis Auderghem aged 13. He has subsequently played in national leagues across Europe including Germany, Sweden and Spain.
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- Feb 26, 1983
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- United Kingdom
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on July 23, 2013
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