Per Walsøe (8 June 1943 – 11 May 2024) was a Danish former

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judge and a

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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

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. 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

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(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 {{Denmark-badminton-bio-stub