Lilian Anette Börjesson (born 11 November 1954) 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 and

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from Sweden.

Badminton

Börjesson is a five time women's singles champion at the

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and was a silver medalist at the

1980 European Badminton Championships The 7th European Badminton Championships were held in Groningen (Netherlands), between 17 and 20 April 1980, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the ''Nederlandse Badminton Bond''. Medalists Results Semi-finals Finals Meda ...

, also in singles, as well as in mixed doubles.

European Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Football

She captained Sweden to their win in the

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. In the final against

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, Börjesson struck the first penalty in Sweden's

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victory. She won a total of 70 caps between 1975 and 1987, scoring 12 goals. In 1985 she scored a

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of penalty kicks against

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. Börjesson won the ''Årets Fotbollstjej Award'', the forerunner of the

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, in 1982. After her retirement from playing, Börjesson founded a magazine dedicated to women's football, called ''nya mål''. Börjesson can be seen in the

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documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.

References

European results
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