Elo Hansen is a retired male
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
Denmark
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who won international titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s.
Career
Hansen won the gold medal at the
1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with
Per Walsøe and the silver medal in singles in the same tournament. He was a singles silver medalist again at the European Championships in
1976
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. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played in four consecutive
Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns for Denmark, (
'66–'67,
'69–'70,
'72–'73,
'75–'76), but never overtook his contemporary,
Svend Pri, as Denmark's leading player of that era. Hansen's international singles titles included the
French Open
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(1969), the
Dutch Open (1970), the
Swedish Open (1971), the
Norwegian International (1973), and the
Portugal International (1974). His finest moment in badminton probably came in
Denmark's narrow (4–5)
1970 Thomas Cup semi-final loss to defending champion
Malaysia
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in Kuala Lumpur when he defeated both
Tan Aik Huang and
Punch Gunalan in straight games.
[Herbert Scheele (ed.) (1971) ''The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971''. Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. p. 29.]
Achievements
European Championships
''Men's singles''
''Men's doubles''
International tournaments (21 titles, 13 runners-up)
''Men's singles''
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
References
Danish male badminton players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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