Michael 'Mike' Graham Tredgett (born 1949) is a former
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badminton
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player who specialized in doubles and played at the world level for more than a decade, winning numerous international men's doubles and mixed doubles titles.
Badminton career
Tredgett won five medals in the
World Championships
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between 1977 and 1983. He is also one of the most successful players ever in the
European Badminton Championships
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with 5 titles, three of them in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He shared three
All-England
The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world's oldest badminton tournament, held annually in England. With the introduction of the Badminton World Federation, BWF's latest grading system, it was given BWF Super Series, Super Series st ...
mixed doubles titles (1978, 1980, 1981) with
Nora Perry and reached the
All-England
The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world's oldest badminton tournament, held annually in England. With the introduction of the Badminton World Federation, BWF's latest grading system, it was given BWF Super Series, Super Series st ...
men's doubles final twice with
Ray Stevens
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(1972, 1980) and twice with
Martin Dew
Martin Dew is a former English male badminton player who specialized in doubles.
Career
Dew won two medals in the World Championships, a silver medal in 1983 for men's doubles and a bronze medal in 1987 for mixed doubles. He shared the mixed ...
(1983, 1984). He won men's doubles with Stevens at the
1978 Commonwealth Games
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.
In 1978 he married fellow badminton player Kathryn Whiting (a former English Junior champion).
Achievements
World Championships
''Men's doubles''
IBF World Grand Prix
The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006.
''Men's doubles''
References
All England champions 1899-2007English statistics* Pat Davis: ''The Encyclopaedia of Badminton''. Robert Hale, London, 1987, p. 169,
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1949 births
Living people
English male badminton players
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Badminton players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
World Games medalists in badminton
World Games silver medalists
Competitors at the 1981 World Games