Elo Hansen

Infobox Badminton player
playername = Elo Hansen


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Elo Hansen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark who won international titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from the late 1960's through the mid 1970's.

Career

Hansen won the gold medal at the 1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Per Walsoe and the silver medal in singles in the same tournament. He was a singles silver medalist again at the European Championships in 1976. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played in four consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns for Denmark, ('66-'67, '69-'70, '72-'73, '75-'76) [Herbert Scheele ed., The "International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971" (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 82.] [Pat Davis, The "Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 125, 126.] , but never overtook Svend Pri as Denmark's leading player of the era. His finest moment in badminton probably came in Denmark's narrow (4-5) 1970 Thomas Cup loss to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur when he defeated both Tan Aik Huang and Punch Gunalan in straight games [Scheele, 29. ] .

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