Knud Aage Nielsen (born 1937) is a retired male

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player from

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Career

With a singles game that featured consistency and excellent mobility, Nielsen played at a high international level from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. In

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he won men's singles at the

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, then considered the unofficial World Badminton Championships, narrowly defeating fellow Dane

Henning Borch Henning Borch is a former world class badminton player from Denmark who won major tournaments from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. In the 1964 Borch reached the men's singles final at the prestigious All-England Championships, narrowly losing ...

in the final. He played

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(men's international team competition) singles for

in the '60–'61 and '63–'64 campaigns, scoring Denmark's only singles victory in its controversial '64 Challenge Round loss to Indonesia. He is the younger brother of

Poul-Erik Nielsen Poul-Erik Nielsen (10 April 1931 – 14 January 2023) was a Danish badminton player. He was a doubles specialist winning three All England titles with partners Erland Kops, Finn Kobberø and Inge Birgit Hansen and reached five more finals. He h ...

three times an All England doubles champion. Nielsen appeared in the Danish TV series ''Make badminton great again'' from 2022 about the history of Danish badminton.

Achievements

International tournaments

''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

References

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