Billy Gilliland (born 27 March 1957) is a former

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player from

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who excelled from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s.

Career

Although he won the Scottish national singles title in 1979, the tall, angular Gilliland was a doubles specialist at the international level with his greatest success coming in mixed doubles. Gilliland won mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships with England's Nora Perry in 1985. He had previously reached the All-England final in both men's doubles and mixed doubles in 1982. He was a mixed doubles bronze medalist at the

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with Joanna Flockhart. Though he won numerous tournaments abroad, perhaps Gilliland's most impressive badminton accomplishment was sharing twelve consecutive Scottish national mixed doubles titles equally with two partners, between 1976 and 1987. With regular partner Dan Travers, he won nine Scottish national men's doubles titles during that period, and men's doubles at the

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in 1986. He now coaches badminton in a badminton academy.

Achievements

World Games

''Men's doubles''

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006. ''Men's doubles''

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* * 1957 births Living people Scottish male badminton players Badminton coaches Badminton players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland World Games medalists in badminton World Games bronze medalists Competitors at the 1981 World Games Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games {{UK-badminton-bio-stub