Nong Qunhua (; born July 20, 1966) is a former international badminton player from
China
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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 ...
in
1991
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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
1993
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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
Asian Games
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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
Thailand
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and
Hong Kong Opens in 1992. Nong was a member of world champion
Chinese
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Uber Cup
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(women's international) teams in
1990
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and
1992
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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
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