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Nancy Horner

Nancy Horner

Scottish badminton player and official

Nancy Horner was a Scottish badminton player and prominent badminton official.[1]

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Horner was the Vice-President of the Badminton Association of England from 1967 to 1975 and was the only female member on an eighty-strong list at the time. She won 15 caps for Scotland as a player and won every available title in the Scottish Open and the English National Badminton Championships.[2]

A regular competitor in the All England Open Badminton Championships, she reached the quarter-finals in 1950 and won three Scottish Open titles in 1953.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Davis, Pat (1983). Guinness Book of Badminton. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-271-X.
  2. [2]
    "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries.
  3. [3]
    "Three titles for Mrs Horner". Aberdeen Evening Express. 19 January 1953. Retrieved 31 March 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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