Lotte Olsen (born 23 November 1966) is a retired female

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player from

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, who won a

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at the 1993 IBF World Championships and competed at the

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. She won several international tournaments, and four Danish National Badminton Championships in women's doubles during her career. Lotte Olsen was a leading women's doubles player from her junior year, and won the Danish under-19 championship in 1984 and 1985. She won the silver medal at the

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in women's doubles with Lisbeth Stuer-Lauridsen. They won silver medals at the 1994 European Badminton Championships, where Olsen also won silver medals with Christian Jacobsen in mixed doubles. Lotte is the older sister of badminton player Rikke Olsen, and together they won the 1995

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in women's doubles. She also competed in badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with Ann Jørgensen and in mix with Christian Jakobsen. In women's doubles, she lost in the quarter final to the runners-up from

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. She ended her career after the Olympics, and later received the Danish Badminton Federation badge of merit.

Achievements

World Championships

''Women's Doubles''

World Cup

''Women's doubles''

European Championships

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

European Junior Championships

''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles''

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

IBF International

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

References

Living people 1966 births Danish female badminton players Olympic badminton players for Denmark Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Long stubs with short prose {{Denmark-badminton-bio-stub