Liselotte Blumer (born 1957) 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

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Career

In 1980 Blumer was a surprise winner of the women's singles gold medal at the

European Badminton Championships The European Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe (BE). It represents the highest level of continental competition in European badminton, and the winners of each event are recognised as the European champions. ...

. The powerfully built Blumer won the Swiss national women's singles title sixteen times, fifteen of them consecutively between 1973 and 1987, and the Swiss Open women's singles title six times.
/ref> Her other international titles included the French Open (badminton), French Open women's doubles, the Polish Open women's singles (1981, 1982), and the

Malta International The Malta International is an international badminton tournament held in Malta. This tournament has been a BWF Future Series, Future Series. Maltese National Badminton Championships already started in 1953. Winners Performances by nation ...

women's singles and doubles (1984).

References

Swiss female badminton players 1957 births Living people 20th-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-badminton-bio-stub