Danish badminton player
Badminton player
Lene Køppen Country Denmark Born (1953-05-05 ) 5 May 1953 (age 71) Highest ranking 1
Lene Køppen (born 5 May 1953) is a former badminton player from Denmark who won numerous Danish national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and Camilla Martin are the only Danish women to win both the World (1977) and All-England (1979, 1980) singles titles. In the first IBF World Championships in 1977 she captured mixed doubles (with Steen Skovgaard ) as well as women's singles to become the first of only seven players, through 2010, to win two events in the same edition of this tournament. Notably, her badminton success came as she was studying and then practising dentistry.[ 1] World Badminton Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the mother of badminton player Marie Røpke .
World Championships [ edit ] European Championships [ edit ] European Junior Championships [ edit ] International tournaments [ edit ] Women's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 1973 India Open Eva Twedberg 11–8, 8–11, 7–11 Runner-up 1973 USSR International Alena Poboráková 11–0, 11–1 Winner 1973 Norwegian International Joke van Beusekom Runner-up 1974 Swedish Open 11–9, 11–8 Winner 1974 Denmark Open Hiroe Yuki 4–11, 12–9, 9–12 Runner-up 1975 Swedish Open 11–6, 12–10 Winner 1975 Denmark Open 11–1, 11–6 Winner 1975 Jamaica International 11–0, 11–10 Winner 1975 Norwegian International Winner 1976 German Open Gillian Gilks Runner-up 1976 Denmark Open 11–4, 11–1 Winner 1977 All England Open 11–7, 3–11, 7–11 Runner-up 1978 Swedish Open Jane Webster 11–5, 11–2 Winner 1978 Denmark Open Atsuko Tokuda 11–4, 9–11, 11–9 Winner 1979 All England Open Saori Kondo 13–9, 1–11, 11–8 Winner 1979 Swedish Open Agnethe Juul 11–3, 11–1 Winner 1979 English Masters 12–10, 11–4 Winner 1979 Dutch Open 10–12, 9–12 Runner-up 1979 Denmark Open 11–8, 7–11, 11–2 Winner 1980 All England Open Verawaty Fadjrin 11–2, 11–6 Winner 1980 Copenhagen Cup 12–9, 11–2 Winner 1980 English Masters Yoshiko Yonekura 11–5, 11–8 Winner 1980 Taiwan Masters 12–9, 11–5 Winner 1981 All England Open Hwang Sun-ai 1–11, 2–11 Runner-up 1981 English Masters Zhang Ailing 6–11, 12–11, 6–11 Runner-up 1981 Dutch Open 11–3, 11–3 Winner 1981 Scandinavian Cup 11–6, 12–11 Winner 1981 Denmark Open 11–1, 11–2 Winner
Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 1973 USSR International Elo Hansen Roland Maywald Tatiana Antropova 15–9, 6–15, 15–5 Winner 1975 Jamaica International Lucio Fabris Barbara Welch 15–10, 13–18, 15–3 Winner 1976 Swedish Open Steen Skovgaard Winner 1976 German Open Mike Tredgett Nora Gardner Runner-up 1976 Denmark Open David Eddy Barbara Giles 15–8, 15–4 Winner 1977 Denmark Open 15–12, 15–8 Winner 1978 All England Open 7–11, 4–11 Runner-up 1978 Swedish Open 2–15, 9–15 Runner-up 1978 Denmark Open 15–9, 15–11 Winner 1979 Swedish Open 15–12, 17–18, 16–18 Runner-up 1979 Denmark Open Ray Stevens 12–15, 15–11, 13–15 Runner-up 1980 Denmark Open 11–15, 8–15 Runner-up 1981 English Masters Morten Frost 5–15, 6–15 Runner-up
^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 155.
Men's players Women's players Contributors
French
Deutsch
Gillian Gilks 
Gold 
Ivana Lie 
Bronze 
Steen Skovgaard 
Hiroe Yuki 
Zhang Ailing 
Mike Tredgett
Silver 
Eva Twedberg 
Runner-up 
Alena Poboráková 
Winner 
Joke van Beusekom 
Hwang Sun-ai 
Tatiana Antropova
Joanna Flockhart
Lesley Harris
Roland Maywald
