Knud Aage Nielsen

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Knud Aage Nielsen

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Country Flag of Denmark Denmark
Title(s) 1964 All England

Knud Aage Nielsen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark.

Nielsen won the All England Open Badminton Championships, considered the unofficial World Badminton Championships, in men's singles in 1964[1]. He played Thomas Cup (men's international team competition) singles for Denmark in the '60-'61 and '63-'64 campaigns, scoring Denmark's only singles victory in its surprising '64 Challenge Round loss to Indonesia[2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Herbert Sheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 164.
  2. ^ Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1967) 87, 90.