Elín Þóra Elíasdóttir (born 7 June 1992) is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player.

Career

Elín made it to the semi-finals of

Iceland International The Iceland International in badminton is an international open held in Iceland since 1986. The tournament belongs to the European Badminton Circuit. In 2008, the event had to be cancelled due to the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis The I ...

tournament in 2009 and was the runner-up in 2012, with her partner

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, losing in the finals against

Chou Tien-chen Chou Tien-chen (; born 8 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He wo ...

and

Chiang Mei-hui Chiang Ying-li (; born 8 October 1992) is a Taiwanese badminton player. Achievement Summer Universiade ''Women's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 4 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed ...

. In 2013, she won

Icelandic National Badminton Championships The Icelandic National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Iceland. They are held since 1949. Past winners ReferencesBadminton Europe - Details of affiliated national organisations

in the women's doubles event with her partner Rakel Jóhannesdótir.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

References

External links

* Living people 1992 births Place of birth missing (living people) Elin Thora Eliasdottir {{Iceland-badminton-bio-stub