Tonny Kristine Ahm (f. Olsen) (21 September 1914 – 7 April 1993) was a female

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 from

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. She won 26 Danish National Championships between 1935 and 1957. She won eleven events at the prestigious All-England Championships, all but one of them after reaching the age of thirty. In her early forties she played singles for

in the first

Uber Cup The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...

(women's world team championship) series, and helped her team to a second-place finish. Ahm was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997.

Major achievements

References

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ChinaBadminton: Tonny Ahm (丹麦)

External links

Tonny Ahm's Profile - Badminton.dk
1914 births 1993 deaths Danish female badminton players Indian national badminton champions 20th-century Danish women {{Denmark-badminton-bio-stub