Rachael Darragh (born 24 September 1997) is an Irish
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 who trained at the Raphoe Badminton Club in
Raphoe
Raphoe ( ; ) is a small town in County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is the main town in the fertile district of East Donegal known as the Laggan. It gave its name to the Barony of Raphoe, which was l ...
in East
Donegal. She won the girls' singles bronze medal at the 2012 UK School Games held in London. At the same year, she became the runner-up of
2012 Fyffes Irish Future Series in the women's doubles event with her partner
Alannah Stephenson. Darragh competed at the
2015 Baku and
2019 Minsk European Games,
also represented
Northern Ireland
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at the
2018 Commonwealth Games
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in Gold Coast, Australia.
Darragh graduated from the
Royal and Prior School
The Royal and Prior School is a co-educational day and boarding school located in Raphoe, County Donegal. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers duri ...
in Raphoe, and studied leisure management at the
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT, ) was a major third-level institution in Dublin, Ireland. On 1 January 2019 DIT was dissolved and its functions were transferred to the Technological University Dublin, as TU Dublin City Campus. The insti ...
(DIT).
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series (3 runners-up)
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
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BWF International Challenge
The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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tournament
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BWF International Series
The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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tournament
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BWF Future Series
The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...
tournament
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Rachael Darraghat the
Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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1998 births
Living people
Irish female badminton players
Olympic badminton players for Ireland
Badminton players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
European Games competitors for Ireland
Badminton players at the 2015 European Games
Badminton players at the 2019 European Games
Badminton players at the 2023 European Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Northern Ireland
Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
People educated at the Royal and Prior School
Sportspeople from Letterkenny
Sportspeople from County Donegal
21st-century Irish sportswomen
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