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Poul-Erik Nielsen (10 April 1931 – 14 January 2023) was a Danish
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player. He was a doubles specialist winning three All England titles with partners
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and Inge Birgit Hansen and reached five more finals. He has four National titles to his name and was capped 33 times by Denmark from 1954 to 1964. He was the elder brother of Knud Aage Nielsen another notable badminton player.


IBF Presidency and contributions

After retiring from the sports, Poul-Erik worked in Danish Ministry of Taxation before returning to badminton with his administrative skills. Poul-Erik was a brilliant innovator with several breakthrough contributions towards badminton such as: *Created the Rules and Laws committee in 1976 which in turn, expanded the sports professionals' levels and enabled the players to gain more money from prizes and so on. *Generated mediating ideas and factors onto the president and vice-president at that time,
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during the separations of IBF and World Badminton Federation (WBF) in between 1976-1981 which eventually lead to the unification of both organizations in with the signing of the Deed of Renunciation on 26 May 1981 in Tokyo between the IBF and the World Badminton Federation. *The unification promoted him as vice-president which he intensely campaigned the badminton for
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by hosting the
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in Copenhagen and did it excellently to appeal the crowd and organizers. *Promoted as the IBF Presidents from 1984 until 1986 where he received the Olympic flag when badminton is confirmed will be held in
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in Barcelona, Spain. After retiring from IBF duties, Poul-Erik back to
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as a chairman for Committee of Rights of Appeal, a committee to handle quarrels between the Association and clubs, or between clubs or between players and clubs until 1998.


Death

On 14th January 2023, Poul-Erik died at 91 after battling short illnesses.


Achievements


International tournaments (15 titles, 14 runners-up)

''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''


References

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