Elena Ivanivna Nozdran ( ua, Олена Іванівна Ноздрань; born 20 July 1975) is a

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player from

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. She played at the

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. In the women's singles event she reached the second round before losing to

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of France. Nozdran also play in the German leagues, then she moved to

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

and work as a badminton coach. In Luxembourg, she come back to the court as a player again and won the women's doubles

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in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2017; and also in the mixed doubles in 2011 and 2017.

Achievements

World Senior Championships

''Women’s singles''

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation since 1983. ''Women’s singles'' ''Women's doubles''

BWF/IBF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

References

European results
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Luxemburgischer Erfolg durch Nozdran
* Living people 1975 births Sportspeople from Dnipro Ukrainian female badminton players Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Ukraine Luxembourgian female badminton players {{Ukraine-badminton-bio-stub