Pia Nielsen 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 ...

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Career

One of Europe's better all-around female players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nielsen played particularly well in the IBF's first three

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. She won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Championships in women's doubles with Inge Borgström, a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 1980 World Championships with Steen Fladberg, and a silver medal in mixed doubles with Fladberg in the 1983 Championships. Nielsen won several international titles on the European continent in each of badminton's three events; singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. She was a women's doubles bronze medalist at the 1978 European Championships with Inge Borgstrom when beaten by Nora Perry and Anne Statt of England in semifinals with 14–17, 11–15, and a women's doubles silver medalist in the 1980 edition of that tournament with

Kirsten Larsen Kirsten Larsen (born 14 March 1962) is a Danish retired badminton player. Career Larsen won the All England final in 1987 in singles. She also won three bronze medals at the Badminton World Cup in 1980, 1985 and 1986 and a gold medal in 1988 ...

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Achievements

World Championships

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

European Championships

''Women's doubles''

European Junior Championships

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

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006. ''Mixed doubles''

International tournaments

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nielsen, Pia Danish female badminton players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Danish women