Helen Jennifer "Jenny" Horton (née Pritchard) is a former English

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player.

Badminton career

Born Helen Jennifer Pritchard she first competed as Pritchard when she won the mixed doubles title at the

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 ...

, with

Tony Jordan Tony Jordan (born 21 July 1957) is a British television writer. He was listed as the number one television screenwriter in the United Kingdom by ''Broadcast'' magazine in 2008 and among British broadcasting's top twenty in ''The Stage'' in 200 ...

. In addition she won the German Open in 1964. After marrying fellow international player David Horton in 1965 she competed as Jenny Horton and won the

U.S. Open Badminton Championships The U.S. Open Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament first held in when the American Badminton Association (now USA Badminton) opened the U.S. National Badminton Championships to foreign competition. During the 1950s and 1960s ...

and the South African Championships in 1965 and from 1966 to 1968 won four titles at the Scottish Open. Horton was selected as part of the England team that went to

1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Kingston, Jamaica, from 4 to 13 August 1966. This was the first time that the Games had been held outside the so-called White Dominions. They were followed by the 1966 Commonwealth P ...

and won a

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, with

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in the women's doubles and a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

, with Tony Jordan in the mixed doubles.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Horton, Jenny English female badminton players 1938 births Living people Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Badminton players at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games