Tammy Jenkins (born 26 August 1971 in

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) is a

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 p ...

player from New Zealand. She competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. At the

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she won a bronze medal partnering

Rhona Robertson Rhona Robertson (born 19 July 1970 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a former female badminton player from New Zealand. She is a veteran of two Olympic Games and four Commonwealth Games. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games she won a bronze m ...

in women's doubles. Four years later at the

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, she won another bronze medal in the mixed team. Jenkins also represented New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, both in ladies' doubles with Rhona Robertson.

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