Pia Nielsen is a retired female

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Career

One of Europe's better all-around female players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nielsen played particularly well in the

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. She won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Championships in women's doubles with Inge Borgström, a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 1980 World Championships with

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, and a silver medal in mixed doubles with Fladberg in the 1983 Championships. Nielsen won several international titles on the European continent in each of badminton's three events; singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. She was a women's doubles bronze medalist at the 1978 European Championships with Inge Borgstrom when beaten by Nora Perry and Anne Statt of England in semifinals with 14–17, 11–15, and a women's doubles silver medalist in the 1980 edition of that tournament with Kirsten Larsen.https://web.archive.org/web/20111105093557/http://sports123.com/bad/we-d.html Sports 123

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Danish female badminton players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Danish women {{Denmark-badminton-bio-stub