Jamie Paulson (born April 26, 1948) is a Canadian former

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 who won

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and international titles from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. In 1970 he won the men's singles at the quadrennial

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making him the only Canadian to do so. He was the flag bearer for Canada at the

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where he finished second to Malaysia's

Punch Gunalan Datuk Punch Gunalan (4 February 1944 – 15 August 2012) was a Malaysian badminton player, who achieved success in both singles and doubles competitions. Badminton career Gunalan was a talented right-hander who spent what might have been some ...

. Paulson won men's singles and men's doubles with Yves Pare at the Canadian Open in 1973,Doris L. Smith, "Twinkle twinkle", ''Badminton USA'', May 1973, 12. and repeated in men's singles in 1974. He was a leading player on Canadian

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(men's international) teams that reached the inter-zone playoffs in

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and

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Achievements

International tournaments

''Men's doubles''

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