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1964 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 1964 All England Badminton Championships, All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England from 1 to 4 April 1964. Final results Men's singles Section 1 Section 2 Women's singles Section 1 Section 2 References * https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19640403-1.1.16.aspx * https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19640405-1.2.94 * https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19640405.2-1.109 {{All England All England Open Badminton Championships 1964 in English sport, All England Open Badminton Championships All England Open Badminton Championships in London 1964 in badminton, All England Open Badminton Championships 1964 sports events in London, All England Open Badminton Championships April 1964 sports events in the United Kingdom, All England Open Badminton Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena (originally the Empire Pool, now known as OVO Arena Wembley for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena next to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London, England, used for music, comedy, family entertainment and sport. The 12,500-seat facility is London's second-largest indoor arena after The O2 Arena, and the List of indoor arenas in the United Kingdom, ninth-largest in the United Kingdom. History The Empire Pool (also known as Empire Pool and Sports Arena) was built for the 1934 British Empire Games at Wembley, by Arthur Elvin, and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its name. The pool itself was last used for the 1948 Summer Olympics. Today, the building is used for music, comedy, family entertainment and sport. It was designed by the engineer Sir Owen Williams (engineer), Owen Williams, without the employment of an architect. Williams built a unique structure, with cantilevers meeting in the middle, thus avoiding the need for internal pillars. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erland Kops
Erland Kops (14 January 1937 – 18 February 2017) was a badminton player from Denmark who won numerous major international singles and doubles titles from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Early life Kops was born in 1937. His uncles were the boxers Ebbe and Poul Kops who both competed at the Summer Olympics. Erland Kops began to play badminton in Københavns Badminton Klub in 1948. He worked for East Asiatic Company in Thailand from 1958 to 1960. Career In 1958, Erland Kops brought an end to eight years of dominance of by Malayan players at the All England Badminton Championships by winning its Men's Singles event. Kops was also among the first Westerners to win major singles titles in the Far East. He combined abundant speed, power, and stamina with impressive shot-making virtuosity. Despite some disappointing results in the late rounds of Thomas Cup (men's international team) competition, Kops was clearly the dominant tournament men's singles player and one of the domi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Sharp (badminton)
Raymond 'Ray' Sharp is a former badminton player from England. Career Sharp was a two times national champion after winning the singles at the English National Badminton Championships in 1968 and 1969. Sharp represented England and won a bronze medal in the men's singles, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the .... References 1945 births English male badminton players Badminton players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games {{England-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Fröhlich
Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Missouri, a town on the Missouri River in the United States ** Hermann AVA, Missouri wine region * The German SC1000 bomb of World War II was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Hermann Göring * Herrmann Hall, the former Hotel Del Monte, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California * Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, a large health system in Southeast Texas * The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a system to measure and describe thinking preferences in people * Hermann station (other), stations of the name * Hermann (crater), a small lunar impact crater in the western Oceanus Procellarum * Hermann Huppen, a Belgian comic book artist * Hermann 19, an American sailboat design built by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rowe (badminton)
David or Dave Rowe may refer to: Academics * David C. Rowe (1949–2003), American psychologist * David E. Rowe (born 1950), American mathematician and historian Business and technology * David Rowe (entrepreneur) (born 1958), British entrepreneur * David Rowe (executive), director of the University of Warwick Science Park Ltd, West Midlands Sports * Dave Rowe (baseball) (1854–1930), baseball player * Dave Rowe (American football) (born 1945), American football player * David Rowe (cyclist) (born 1944), British 1972 Olympic cyclist * David Rowe (tennis), Australian tennis player, see 1946 Australian Championships – Men's Singles Other * David Rowe-Beddoe, Baron Rowe-Beddoe (1937–2023), British politician * David H. Rowe, American politician from Pennsylvania * David P. Rowe (born 1959), Jamaican-American lawyer * Dave Rowe (musician) David B. Rowe, is a folk singer from Maine. Rowe was born in Lewiston, Maine, Lewiston, Maine on April 10, 1973, the only son, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Havers
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kin Tat
Dr. Lee Kin Tat (born 1939) is a Malayan-born Singaporean former badminton player who won numerous international singles titles from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, including the open championships of Belgium, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Singapore. He was considered by many as Singapore's badminton star of the 1960s. Lee was known to be able to execute a smash from any corner of the court. Early life Lee, the oldest of five children was born in Perak to rubber magnate Lee In Tong. He later moved to Penang, then Singapore, where he studied at St Joseph's Institution. When Lee was 19 (as the school's boy champion), he served notice of his talent by upsetting top Singapore players Omar Ibrahim and V.S.S. Nathan. He later moved to London to study at Imperial College and played in Britain and Europe. Badminton career Lee won two titles at the 1959 French Open. In the season of 1960, he finished second at the German Open. In 1963 and 1967, he again won the French Open. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ng Goon Foong
Ng, ng, or NG may refer to: * Ng (name) (黄 伍 吳), a surname of Chinese origin Arts and entertainment * N-Gage (other), a handheld gaming system * Naked Giants, Seattle rock band * '' Spirit Hunter: NG'', a video game Businesses and organizations * Lauda Air (airline code NG) * National Geographic (other) * National Grid plc, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company * National Guard (other) * ''Nederlandse Gidsen'' (Dutch Guides), one of the Scouting organisations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands * Newgrounds, an American entertainment and social media website and company * Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major United States defense contractor * Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, a German scientific society Language * Ndonga dialect (ISO 639 alpha-2 ng), a dialect of Oshiwambo * Ng (digraph), a pair of letters representing various sounds * Ng (Arabic letter) * Ng (Filipi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Mills (badminton)
Roger J Mills (1942-2020) was a former English international badminton player and coach. Badminton career Mills won 9 English National titles, Singles three years running, 1965, 1966, and 1967, Men's Doubles 1967 and 1970 plus Mixed Doubles 1965, 1968, 1969 and 1971. Roger was a Winston Churchill Fellow which he gained in 1974 for his contribution to badminton. https://www.wcmt.org.uk/users/roger-jmills1974 He won the 1969 All England Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with Gillian Perrin when this tournament was considered the sport's premier event (aside from the international team world championships, Thomas Cup and Uber Cup). Mills competed in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica winning the gold medal, in the mixed doubles with Angela Bairstow and a bronze medal, in the men's doubles with David Horton. Four years later he won a silver medal, in the mixed doubles with Perrin at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Andrew (badminton)
Errol Campbell Andrew (born 13 December 1940 in Palmerston North Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ..., New Zealand) is a former motorcycle speedway rider and jockey. During his career as a jockey he rode as E. C. Andrew, but when he was riding speedway he was known as Bill Andrew. He earned 15 international caps for the New Zealand national speedway team and 7 caps for Great Britain national speedway team. Speedway career Andrew began riding at the Palmerston North Showgrounds track in 1961. He rode for the Newcastle Diamonds in the Provincial League in 1962 and 1964. He rode in the British League for the Poole Pirates from 1965 to 1968. He then had two years with the Newport Wasps. His final season was with the Halifax Dukes. He rode in two British Speedwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charoen Wattanasin
Charoen Wattanasin () (born 1937) is a former badminton player from Thailand who won international championships in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Career Between 1958 and 1962 Wattanasin captured the open men's singles titles of Malaya, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, and France. He also shared the open men's doubles titles of Malaya, Scotland, the Netherlands, and the USA. Wattanasin was a men's singles runner-up to Denmark's formidable Erland Kops at the All-England Championships in 1960 and 1962. He represented Thailand in the Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns of 1957-1958 and 1963-1964. Corruption scandal In 2000 he was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame. However, there were scandals and corruption issues when he was the president of the Badminton Association of Thailand between 2009 and 2013. In 2010, 16 players and coaches quit Badminton Association of Thailand as they did not receive supporting fee from the association, while Charoen claimed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harris (badminton)
Robert or Rob Harris may refer to: Entertainment * Robert Harris (painter) (1848–1919), Canadian painter * Robert Harris (English actor) (1900–1995), English actor * Robert H. Harris (1911–1981), American actor * Robert Harris (poet) (1951–1993), Australian poet * Robert Harris (novelist) (born 1957), British novelist * Robert A. Harris (born 1945), American film preservationist * Robert J. Harris (writer) (born 1955), Scottish academic and author * Robert S. Harris, video game programmer * J. Robert Harris (1925–2000), U.S. composer of the 1967 Spider-Man television series theme * Rob Harris, guitarist with Jamiroquai and Shuffler Politics and law * Robert Harris (Pennsylvania politician) (1768–1851), U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania * Robert O. Harris (1854–1926), U.S. congressman from Massachusetts * Robert O. Harris (lawyer) (1929–2007), American labor lawyer * Robert J. Harris (mayor) (1930–2005), lawyer, professor, and mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
