Lene Køppen (born 5 May 1953) is a former

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 from

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who won numerous Danish national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and

Camilla Martin Camilla Martin Nygaard (née Martin; born 23 March 1974) is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All England and World Championships singl ...

are the only Danish women to win both the

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(1977) and

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(1979, 1980) singles titles. In the first

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she captured mixed doubles (with Steen Skovgaard) as well as women's singles to become the first of only seven players, through 2010, to win two events in the same edition of this tournament. Notably, her badminton success came as she was studying and then practising dentistry.Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 155. She was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the mother of badminton player

Marie Røpke Marie Røpke (born 19 June 1987) is a Danish badminton player. Personal life Her mother Lene Køppen won women's singles at the first official World Badminton Championships in 1977 and is a member of the World Badminton Hall of Fame. Achievem ...

Achievements

World Championships

World Cup

World Games

European Championships

European Junior Championships

International tournaments

References

External links

Lene Køppen's Profile - Badminton.dk
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koppen, Lene 1953 births Living people Danish female badminton players World Games medalists in badminton World Games bronze medalists Competitors at the 1981 World Games