Nancy Horner
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| Nancy Horner | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Country |  Scotland |
| Born | 1925 |
| Died | 1984 (aged 58–59) |
Nancy Horner was a Scottish badminton player and prominent badminton official.[1]
Horner was the Vice-President of the Badminton Association of England from 1967 to 1975 and was the only female member on an eighty-strong list at the time. She won 15 caps for Scotland as a player and won every available title in the Scottish Open and the English National Badminton Championships.[2]
A regular competitor in the All England Open Badminton Championships, she reached the quarter-finals in 1950 and won three Scottish Open titles in 1953.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Davis, Pat (1983). Guinness Book of Badminton. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-271-X.
- ^ "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries.
- ^ "Three titles for Mrs Horner". Aberdeen Evening Express. 19 January 1953. Retrieved 31 March 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.