Margaret Barrand (née Margaret Semple) (born 1940) is a former English
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 ...
international player and a former national champion.
Biography
Barrand became an English National doubles champion after winning the
English National Badminton Championships
The English National Badminton Championships is a tournament organised by the Badminton England to crown the best badminton players in England.
The tournament started in 1964 and is held annually. The first winners were Bill Havers and Ursula ...
mixed doubles title with
Roger Mills in 1965. The following year she won the women's doubles with
Angela Bairstow. She was a member of the
1963 English Uber Cup team which finished second to the United States in a tight four games to three final. Her most impressive badminton accomplishment, perhaps, was winning mixed doubles at the
U.S. Open Badminton Championships in three successive years (1963, 1964, and 1965), each time with a different partner ( in order:
Sangob Rattanusorn,
Channarong Ratanaseangsuang, and
Bob McCoig). She also won the 1965
Canadian Open mixed doubles with McCoig and the 1965 U.S Open women's doubles with
Jennifer Pritchard Horton.
She represented Lancashire and England and played under the name of Semple until she married a vicar called George Barrand in 1958, playing thereafter as Barrand. Margaret retired after her son, Timothy is born. After retiring, Margaret moved to Australia with her husband being appointed as a Rector in
Moss Vale
Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Moss Vale is the administrative centre of Wingecarribee Shire local government area. It is located south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. The Illawarra Hi ...
parish.
Achievements
International tournaments (9 titles, 5 runners-up)
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
References
English female badminton players
1940 births
Living people
20th-century English sportswomen
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