Rikke Olsen Siegemund (born 19 April 1975) is a retired
badminton
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player from
Denmark
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. She won the mixed doubles title at the World Junior Championships in 1992 and the girls' doubles title at the European Junior Championships in 1993.
Born in Søndre Roskilde, Olsen came from the badminton family, and started playing at the age of six. She trained in Kastrup-Magleby BK and played for the team for eight seasons, won fourteen
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titles, seven
World Championships
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bronze medals, three times runner-up in All England Open, and reached in to the bronze medal match at the
Olympic Games
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in 1996, 2000 and 2004. During her career, she was ranked as world No. 1 in the mixed doubles and No. 2 in the women's doubles. After retiring from the tournament, she became the national junior coach. She is currently performance manager at Badminton New Zealand.
Her sister
Lotte Olsen
Lotte Olsen (born 23 November 1966) is a retired female badminton player from Denmark, who won a silver medal at the 1993 IBF World Championships and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won several international tournaments, and four Danish ...
also played
badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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. She is married to German badminton player
Björn Siegemund
Björn Siegemund (born 30 September 1973) is a male badminton player from Germany.
He has 2 sons and a daughter.
Career
Siegemund competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Nicol Pitro. They defeated Travis ...
and settled in
Solrød Strand
Solrød Strand is a Danish town, seat of the Solrød Municipality, in the Region Sjælland. It is commonly known simply as Solrød. Its population as of 1 January 2022 was 17,337 The pair has two kids.
Career
Olsen competed in
badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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in women's doubles with partner
Ann-Lou Jørgensen
Ann-Lou Jørgensen (born 12 June 1977) is a badminton player from Denmark.
Career
Jørgensen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Rikke Olsen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Nicole ...
. They had a bye in the first round and defeated
Nicole Grether
Nicole Grether (born 17 October 1974) is a badminton player from Germany. She competed at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Olympics.
Career
Grether competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Juliane S ...
and
Juliane Schenk
Juliane Schenk (born 26 November 1982) is a German badminton player. In March 2014 she retired from international play.
Career
In 2001, she won the European Junior Championships in women's singles. 2003 saw her win the women's doubles with Ni ...
of
Germany
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in the second. In the quarterfinals, Olsen and Jørgensen lost to
Huang Sui
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Career
Although Huang has won the Chinese National mixed doubles title almost all of her many international titles have come in women's doubles with Gao Ling, i ...
and
Gao Ling
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Career
Noted for her consistency, anticipation, forecourt prowess, and sporting smile, Gao is one of the most successful doubles players in the history of women's badminton. ...
of
China
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15-6, 15-7.
She also competed in mixed doubles with partner
Jonas Rasmussen
Jonas Rasmussen (born 28 October 1977 in Aarhus) is a retired badminton player from Denmark.
Career
With his men's doubles partner Lars Paaske he won the 2003 IBF World Championships defeating Indonesian pair Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto ...
. They had a bye in the first round and defeated
Daniel Shirley
Daniel A. Shirley (born 13 April 1979) is a male badminton player from New Zealand.Sara Petersen of
New Zealand
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in the second. In the quarterfinals, Olsen and Rasmussen beat
Kim Dong-moon
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and
Ra Kyung-min
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of
Korea
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17-14, 15-8, to advance to the semifinals. There, they lost to
Nathan Robertson
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and
Gail Emms
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of
Great Britain
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15-6, 15-12. In the bronze medal match, they were defeated by fellow Danish pair
Jens Eriksen
Jens Dyrløv Eriksen (born 30 December 1969) is a badminton player from Denmark. He competed in four consecutive Olympic Games from 1996 to 2008, and won a mixed doubles bronze medal in 2004 partnered with Mette Schjoldager. At the World Champ ...
and Mette Schjoldager 15-5, 15-5, to finish in fourth place.
In February 2018, Olsen Siegemund left her job as Danish Under 19s national coach to start a four year contract as combined sports manager and national coach for New Zealand.
Achievements
World Championships
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
World Cup
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
European Championships
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
World Junior Championships
''Mixed doubles''
European Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
''Girls' doubles''
IBF World Grand Prix
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''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''