Grace Kubi Daniel (born 24 February 1984) is a Nigerian badminton player. She defeated South Africa's

Michelle Claire Edwards Michelle Claire Edwards (born 11 July 1974) is a South African badminton player. Career Edwards played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Aparna Popat of India in the round of 32 in the women's singles. In the women's doubles, Ed ...

for the gold medal in the women's singles, and also, teamed up with Susan Ideh for a silver in the doubles at the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

in Algiers, Algeria. Daniel qualified for the women's singles at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, after she was ranked eighty-ninth in the world, and awarded a continental spot for Africa by the

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...

. She lost the first preliminary round match to Czech Republic's Kristina Ludíková, with a score of 13–21 and 8–21.

Achievements

African Games

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

African Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed Doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series

''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

External links

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NBC Olympics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniel, Grace 1984 births Living people Nigerian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Nigeria Badminton players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Nigeria Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games African Games gold medalists for Nigeria African Games silver medalists for Nigeria African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria African Games medalists in badminton 21st-century Nigerian women Place of birth missing (living people)