Amanda Jane Hardy (born 10 December 1971) is a retired female

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 from Australia. Hardy was a ladies doubles and mixed doubles specialist.

Career

Hardy competed in

badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the four events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles) as well as a new event: mixed doubles. An additional change to the tournament was the playoff game for the bronze medal ...

in women's doubles with

Rhonda Cator Rhonda Maree Cator (born 23 August 1966) is an Australian retired badminton player. Career Cator competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with Anna Lao, and they lost in quarterfinal to Lin Yan Fen and Yao Fen. Th ...

and the mixed doubles with Paul Stevenson. She also competed at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

in the ladies doubles with

and the mixed doubles with

David Bamford David Phillip Bamford (born 29 March 1976 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian badminton player. On 22 June 2000, Bamford was awarded the Australian Sports Medal The Australian Sports Medal is an award given to recognise achievem ...

. Hardy competed at two

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

( Victoria 1994 – bronze medal, Kuala Lumpur 1998 – bronze medal).

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