Line Højmark Kjærsfeldt (born 20 April 1994) is a Danish

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 specializing in singles. She won a bronze medal at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in the women's doubles with Sandra-Maria Jensen. Kjærsfeldt also won a gold medal in 2015 European Games.

Career

Kjærsfeldt began to playing badminton at the age of eight, and started to playing competitively at the age of 15. She competed at the 2010 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal in the girls' doubles partnered with Sandra-Maria Jensen, after in the semi-finals, they were beaten by the Chinese pair

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and Ou Dongni in straight games. Kjærsfeldt won her first international title in the women's doubles at the 2011 Croatian International with Jensen. She then played at the Vantaa European Junior Championships, won the gold medal in the mixed doubles with

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and bronze medal in the girls' doubles with Jensen. She entered two finals at the Scottish International, and won her first mixed doubles title with Astrup. In 2012, Kjærsfeldt won her first title of the year at the

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in the women's doubles with Sandra-Maria Jensen. In May, Kjærsfeldt finished runner-up at the

Denmark International The Denmark Masters is an international badminton tournament held in Denmark. This tournament has been an International Challenge level. Another tournament for higher level in the country is Denmark Open The Denmark Open, or formerly known as D ...

in the mixed doubles with

. She then won her first women's singles title at the Irish Open. After won the title in Ireland, she then entered the top 100 BWF world ranking. Kjærsfeldt opened the 2013 season by winning the

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. In March, she clinched the girls' singles silver medal at the European Junior Championships, after being defeated by Bulgarian Stefani Stoeva in the final. In 2014, Kjærsfeldt won the Finnish Open, and also runners-up in the Swedish Masters and Irish Open. Kjærsfeldt competed at the 2015 Baku European Games and won the gold medal in the women's singles. She then won a Grand Prix title at the Scottish Open beating home favorite

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in the final in three games. In 2016, she was defeated by

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in the semi-finals of the European Championships, settled for the bronze medal. Kjærsfeldt made her debut at the Olympics in

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, but her pace was stopped in the group stage. In December, she won her second Irish Open title.

Achievements

European Games

''Women's singles''

European Championships

''Women's singles''

BWF World Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

European Junior Championships

''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Tour (3 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles''

BWF Grand Prix (1 title, 1 runner-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Women's singles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 7 runners-up)

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

Invitational tournament

''Women's singles''

References

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