Nong Qunhua (; born July 20, 1966) is a former international badminton player from

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who specialized in women's doubles.

Career

Nong was one of the world's leading women's doubles players of the early 1990s, winning the

IBF World Championships The BWF World Championships, formerly known as IBF World Championships, and also known as the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament is one of the most prestigious ...

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with

Guan Weizhen Guan won numerous major international doubles titles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is the only woman to have won three consecutive women's doubles titles at the BWF World Championships. She won the 1987 and 1989 tournaments with Lin Y ...

and in

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with

Zhou Lei Zhou Lei () is a former world level badminton player from China who later coached in the United States. Career Primarily a doubles specialist, Zhou's biggest badminton achievement was winning women's doubles at the 1993 IBF World Championships ...

. With Guan, Nong also won the 1990

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, was a silver medalist at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and was a runner-up at the 1992 All England Championships. With Zhou Lei she won the

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and Hong Kong Opens in 1992. Nong was a member of world champion

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(women's international) teams in

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and

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References

External links

Database Olympics profile
1966 births Living people Badminton players from Guangxi Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of China Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic medalists in badminton Asian Games medalists in badminton People from Nanning Chinese female badminton players Badminton players at the 1990 Asian Games Zhuang people Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games {{PRChina-Olympic-medalist-stub