Nora Perry

Nora Perry
Personal information
Birth name	Nora Gardner
Country	England

Nora Perry MBE (born 1954 as Nora Gardner) is an English former badminton player noted for her anticipation, racket control, and tactical astuteness. A doubles specialist, Perry won numerous major titles, with a variety of partners, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. These included six All-England mixed doubles and two All-England women's doubles championships. She won both the 1980 IBF World Championships and the 1980 European Championships in women's doubles with Jane Webster. Three years later, she won the 1983 IBF World Championships title in mixed doubles with Thomas Kihlström. Generally regarded as one of the greatest female mixed doubles players in the game's history, in 1999 she was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame. She currently teaches badminton at Davenant Foundation School in Essex.

Major achievements

Rank	Event	Date	Venue
World Championships
1	Women's doubles	1980	Jakarta, Indonesia
1	Mixed doubles	1983	Copenhagen, Denmark
2	Mixed doubles	1980	Jakarta, Indonesia
2	Women's doubles	1983	Copenhagen, Denmark
3	Women's doubles	1977	, Malmö, Sweden
3	Mixed doubles	1977	, Malmö, Sweden
European Championships
1	Women's doubles	1978	Preston, England
1	Mixed doubles	1978	Preston, England
1	Women's doubles	1980	Groningen, Netherlands
1	Mixed doubles	1980	Groningen, Netherlands
2	Women's doubles [1]	1974	Vienna, Austria
2	Women's doubles [1]	1976	Dublin, Ireland
2	Women's doubles	1982	Böblingen, Germany
2	Mixed doubles	1982	Böblingen, Germany
3	Mixed doubles	1976	Dublin, Ireland
All England Open
1	Women's doubles	1980, 1981	Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England
1	Mixed doubles	1975,[1] 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985	Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England

Notes

1. As Nora Gardner

References

• All England Champions 1899-2007
• English results
• European results
• Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. Robert Hale, London, 1987, p. 120-121, ISBN 0-7090-2796-6