Lene Køppen (born 5 May 1953) is a Danish

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player who won numerous national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and Camilla Martin are the only Danish women to win both the

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(1977) and All-England (1979, 1980) singles titles. In the first IBF World Championships in

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she captured the mixed doubles (with Steen Skovgaard) as well as women's singles to become the first of only seven players, through 2010, to win two events in the same edition of this tournament. Notably, her badminton success came as she was studying and then practising dentistry.Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 155. She was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the mother of badminton player Marie Røpke.

Achievements

World Championships

World Cup

World Games

European Championships

European Junior Championships

International tournaments

References

External links

Lene Køppen's Profile - Badminton.dk
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koppen, Lene 1953 births Living people Badminton players from Copenhagen Danish female badminton players World Games medalists in badminton World Games bronze medalists for Denmark Medalists at the 1981 World Games World No. 1 badminton players