Catrine Bengtsson (born 21 September 1969) is a Swedish
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
player.
Career
Bengtsson competed in
badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's singles and women's doubles with
Maria Bengtsson, and they lost in quarter-finals to
Guan Weizhen and
Nong Qunhua, of China, 15–4, 15–9. She also competed in the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in the three events: women's singles, women's doubles with
Margit Borg and mixed doubles with
Peter Axelsson.
In
1994
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, she won the
European Championships
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In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...
in mixed doubles with Denmark's
Michael Søgaard.
In
1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
she claimed her biggest title, the
IBF World Championship in mixed doubles with Denmark's
Thomas Lund.
Achievements
World Championships
''Mixed doubles''
World Cup
''Mixed doubles''
European Championships
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
European Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
''Girls' doubles''
IBF World Grand Prix
The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
IBF International
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
References
External links
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Swedish female badminton players
Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players for Sweden
Living people
1969 births
Sportspeople from Gothenburg
20th-century Swedish sportswomen
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