Elo Hansen

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Elo Hansen
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Country	Denmark
Career 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 1960s through the mid-1970s.

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. He was a singles silver medalist again at the European Championships in 1976. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played 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 his contemporary, Svend Pri, as Denmark's leading player of that era. His finest moment in badminton probably came in Denmark's narrow (4-5) 1970 Thomas Cup semi-final loss to defending champion Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur when he defeated both Tan Aik Huang and Punch Gunalan in straight games.^[3]

References

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

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Name	Hansen, Elo
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Short description	Danish badminton player
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