Rhonda Cator (born 23 August 1966) is a retired female

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 pe ...

player from

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Career

Cator competed in

badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics Badminton had its debut as an official medal sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was held from 28 July to 4 August 1992. Four events were held in the first competition of the sport: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's do ...

in women's doubles with

Anna Lao Anna Oi Chan Lao (born 7 May 1962) is a former Australian badminton player. She is the most successful badminton player in the history of Australian badminton. She was ranked 5th in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where badminton had ...

, and they lost in quarterfinal to

Lin Yan Fen Lin Yanfen (; born January 4, 1971) is a Chinese female badminton player of the 1990s. Career Lin was a women's doubles specialist who paired with Yao Fen to win several top tier international tournaments. These included the Swedish (1992), Ch ...

and

Yao Fen Yao Fen (; born January 2, 1967) is a Chinese former international level women's badminton player. Career A doubles specialist, Yao won a number of top tier events on the world circuit in the early 1990s. Her earliest international success cam ...

. The same year, they won the

French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...

. She also competed at the

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and

2000 Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. Domestically, Cator has won the national championship in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and has competed at five Commonwealth Games, winning 5 bronze medals as follows: the team event in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, in both the team event and mixed doubles at the

1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, from 18 to 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, ...

and also in both the women's teams event and mixed doubles at the

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Games four years later. Cator was the Australian badminton assistant coach at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

and team manager at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

., 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cator, Rhonda 1966 births Living people Australian female badminton players Olympic badminton players of Australia Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Badminton players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia) Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games