Robert S. McCoig

Robert S. McCoig was a Scottish badminton player who won numerous national and international titles from the late 1950's to the mid 1970's. Though he captured a record fifteen Scottish National singles titles [Pat Davis, The "Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England (Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 157.] , as well as several Scottish Open singles titles, his greatest international victories came in doubles. He was especially successful in three North American forays which yielded a pair of U.S. Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1965), a pair of Canadian Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1969), and the mixed doubles title of each nation in 1965 [Herbert Scheele ed., The "International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971" (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 137,138,313,314.] . With Muriel Woodcock (nee Ferguson) McCoig was runner-up in mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships in 1968 [Scheele, 168.] . He represented Scotland in seven consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns from 1957 to 1976.

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