Iris Rogers (née Cooley), is a former English

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

player.

Badminton career

Born Iris L Cooley she came to prominence in the early fifties when playing doubles. Partnering June Timperley née White the pair broke the stranglehold of the Danish pairs during the era of Danish domination by claiming three All England women's doubles titles. She also claimed an All England mixed doubles titles with John Best. Although mainly concentrating on doubles Rogers was also a very good singles player reaching the final of the All England in 1954 before losing out to

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. Other successes included nine Irish open titles, nine Scottish open titles, three Dutch opens, one Swedish open and one Danish open title. She represented

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and won a silver medal in the women's doubles with

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, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston,

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Personal life

She married in William Rogers in 1956 and competed as Rogers and not Cooley afterwards.

Medal record at the
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Iris Badminton players at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games English female badminton players Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England 1930 births Living people