Rhonda Maree Cator (born 23 August 1966) is an Australian retired

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.

Career

Cator competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with

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, and they lost in quarterfinal to Lin Yan Fen and

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. The same year, they won the

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. She also competed at the

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and

2000 Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

. Domestically, Cator has won the national championship in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and has competed at five Commonwealth Games, winning 5 bronze medals as follows: the team event in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, in both the team event and mixed doubles at the

1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, between 18 and 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, box ...

and also in both the women's teams event and mixed doubles at the

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Games four years later. Cator was the Australian badminton assistant coach at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...

and team manager at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

., 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cator, Rhonda 1966 births Living people Australian female badminton players Olympic badminton players for Australia Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in badminton Badminton players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian sportswomen 21st-century Australian sportswomen