Ulla Strand

Infobox Badminton player
playername = Ulla Strand


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birth_name = Ulla Rasmussen
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event = Doubles
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country = DEN
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titles = 10 All Englands
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Ulla Strand (born as Ulla Rasmussen) is a retired female badminton player of Denmark who excelled from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Though she won three Danish national singles titles most of her major championship victories were in doubles (often with her sister Karin Jorgensen) and mixed doubles. Attractive and charismatic, she was a crowd favorite throughout her career.

She was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1999.

Career

Strand won 10 All England Open Badminton Championships titles, 7 in mixed doubles and 3 in women's doubles.

She also won 21 Danish National Championships between 1961 and 1974, and 19 Nordic Championships between 1962 and 1973.

1972 Summer Olympics

Strand competed in badminton at the 1972 Summer Olympics, as a demonstration sport competition. In women's singles, she lost in the first round against Noriko Nakayama, 11-5, 11-9. In mixed doubles she played with Svend Pri, and they were beaten in the final by Derek Talbot and Gillian Gilks of Great Britain, 15-6, 18-16.

Major achievements

External links

* [http://www.badminton.dk/Nyheder/Nyhedsarkiv%202007/august%202007/Ulla%20Strand%20er%20doed.aspx Ulla Strand's Profile - Badminton.dk]