Kati Tolmoff (born 3 December 1983 in Tartu) is a

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 p ...

player from

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. She represented Estonia at the

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and

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

. She competed in the women's singles event, where she lost to

Chloe Magee Chloe Noelle Magee (born 29 November 1988) is an Irish people, Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games for three consecutive times in Badminton at the 2008 Summer Oly ...

21–18, 18–21, and 19–21 in the first round. In 2016, she was the runner-up in the group K stage, lose a match to

Ratchanok Intanon Ratchanok Intanon ( th, รัชนก อินทนนท์, , ; born 5 February 1995) is a Thai badminton player who became the first Thai to become No.1 in women's singles. She is known for her relaxed hitting motion and light footwork, w ...

, and won a match to

Yip Pui Yin Yip Pui Yin (; born 6 August 1987) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. Career Yip played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round after beating Laura Molina of Spain and ...

. In September 2009, Tolmoff announced that because of a lack of money, her professional career was over. But she returned in 2014. Tolmoff also competed at the 2015 Baku European Games.

Awards

Estonian National Badminton Championships The Estonian National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Estonia. They are held since the season 1965. Past winners ReferencesBadminton Europe - Details of affiliated national organisations ...

, women's singles, 12 times *

, women's doubles, 6 times *

, mixed doubles, 6 times

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series tournament

References

External links

* * * at ''baku2015.com'' 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Tartu Estonian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Estonia Badminton players at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Estonia {{Estonia-badminton-bio-stub