Elo Hansen

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Elo Hansen

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Country Flag of Denmark Denmark
Title(s) 1970 European Champs

Elo Hansen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark who won international titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from the late 1960's through the mid 1970's.

[edit] Career

Hansen won the gold medal at the 1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Per Walsoe and the silver medal in singles in the same tournament. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played singles in four consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns for Denmark, ('66-'67, '69-'70, '72-'73, '75-'76)[1][2], but never overtook Svend Pri as Denmark's leading player of the era. His finest moment in badminton probably came in Denmark's narrow (4-5) 1970 Thomas Cup loss to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur when he defeated both Tan Aik Huang and Punch Gunalan in straight games[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 82.
  2. ^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 125, 126.
  3. ^ Scheele, 29.
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