Per Walsøe (8 June 1943 – 11 May 2024) was a Danish former
Supreme Court
In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...
judge and a
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 who won a number of Danish national and international doubles titles from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
Career
Walsoe won the gold medal at the
1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with
Elo Hansen
Elo Hansen is a retired male badminton player from Denmar ...
. He also captured the mixed doubles crown at the prestigious
All-England Championships with Pernille Molgaard Hansen in 1970, having previously reached the final with the same partner in 1966 and 1967. Walsoe was also a runner-up with
Svend Andersen (Pri) in the 1967
All-England men's doubles to fellow Danes
Erland Kops
Erland Kops (14 January 1937 – 18 February 2017) was a badminton player from Denmark who won numerous major international singles and doubles titles from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Early life
Kops was born in 1937. His uncles were ...
and
Henning Borch
Henning Borch (9 March 1938 – 12 June 2024) was a former world class badminton player from Denmark who won major tournaments from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Borch represented Amager Badminton Club in the domestic competitions througho ...
. One of the physically largest men to have played world class badminton, Walsoe represented Denmark in
Thomas Cup
The Thomas Cup, sometimes referred as World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport's global governing body. The championships h ...
(world men's team) competition in the
'66-'67,
'69-'70, and
'75-'76 seasons.
[Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 126.]
Achievements
European Championships
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
International tournaments (19 titles, 20 runners-up)
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
References
Danish male badminton players
1943 births
Supreme Court (Denmark) justices
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Danish sportsmen
2024 deaths
Long stubs with short prose
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