Anders Nielsen (badminton)
Appearance
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Full name | Anders Ward Nielsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa | 24 February 1967|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 July 2010 Cheam, Greater London, England | (aged 43)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anders Ward Nielsen (24 February 1967 – 29 July 2010) was a badminton player who competed for England.
Badminton career
[edit]Nielsen represented Great Britain in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1]
He represented England and won a gold medal in the mixed team and a bronze medal in the men's singles event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[2][3][4]
He represented England 40 times between 1987 and 1996 and won bronze in the 1992 and 1994 European Badminton Championships. He was twice the English National champion in 1992 and 1995. He died of cancer in 2010.[5]
Family
[edit]His mother was Heather Ward.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anders Nielsen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Anders Nielsen". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Badminton mourns Anders Nielsen". Badminton England. Archived from the original on 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Anders W Nielsen at BWFBadminton.com
- Anders W Nielsen at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (alternate link)
- Anders Ward Nielsen at Olympics.com
- Anders Nielsen at Olympedia (archive)
- Anders Nielsen at Team GB
- Anders Nielsen at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Categories:
- 1967 births
- 2010 deaths
- English male badminton players
- Olympic badminton players for Great Britain
- Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Badminton players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- British badminton biography stubs