Heather Olver (born 15 March 1986) is an English badminton player. Her career highlights so far include mixed team and mixed doubles silver at the

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women’s doubles bronze, and reaching the final of the 2013

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and Scottish Open. She also competed at the

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Early career

She started playing at the age of six and started when she joined her local club, Waldron Junior BC, with her brother.

Career

In 2005, Olver won the women's doubles at both the England Junior Championships and the

Welsh International The Welsh International is an international badminton championship held in Wales since 1928 and is thereby one of the oldest badminton tournaments in the world. The tournament was halted during World War II and until 1956, between 1960 and 1966, a ...

. In 2009, she was successful four times internationally, and in the following year she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in women's doubles. She competed in the mixed team and

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event at the

where she won silver medals respectively. She also won mixed team bronze in

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Education

Having attended primary school at Cross in Hand CEP, she later went on to obtain a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development from the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

. She was both a triple jumper and a 200m sprinter at

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in East Sussex.

Achievements

Commonwealth Games

''Mixed Doubles''

European Championships

''Women's Doubles''

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by

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(BWF) since 2007. ''Women's Doubles'' ''Mixed Doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

''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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olver, Heather 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Eastbourne Alumni of the University of Bath English female badminton players Olympic badminton players for Great Britain Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England People from Heathfield, East Sussex Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games