Lene Køppen is a former badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 player from Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. 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

Camilla Martin

Camilla Martin Nygaard née Martin is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All-England and World singles titles....

 are the only Danish women to win both the World (1977) and All-England

All England Open Badminton Championships

The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments. Played annually, it developed after the success of world's first badminton tournament held in Guildford in 1898...

 (1979, 1980) singles titles. In the first IBF World Championships in 1977

1977 IBF World Championships

-Medalists:- Men's singles :- Women's singles :- Men's doubles :- Women's doubles :- Mixed doubles :-Medal account:-External links:* *...

 she captured mixed doubles (with Steen Skovgaard

Steen Skovgaard

Steen Skovgaard is a retired male badminton player from Denmark who specialized in the doubles events and won national and international titles from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s.He played for the Gentofte BK.-Career:...

) 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. She was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame

Badminton Hall of Fame

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 in 1998.

Major achievements

Rank	Event	Date	Venue
World Championships
1	Mixed doubles	1977 1977 IBF World Championships -Medalists:- Men's singles :- Women's singles :- Men's doubles :- Women's doubles :- Mixed doubles :-Medal account:-External links:* *...	Malmö, SWE
1	Singles	1977 1977 IBF World Championships -Medalists:- Men's singles :- Women's singles :- Men's doubles :- Women's doubles :- Mixed doubles :-Medal account:-External links:* *...	Malmö, SWE
3 3	Singles Mixed doubles	1980 1980 IBF World Championships -Medalists:-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Women's doubles:-Mixed doubles:-Medal table:-External links:*http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19800528.1.26.aspx...	Jakarta, INA
European Championships European Badminton Championships The European Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe . The first of these competitions was held in 1968. The competition is held once every two years to determine the best badminton players in Europe....
1	Singles	1978 1978 European Badminton Championships The 6th European Badminton Championships were held in Preston , between 13 April and 15 April 1978, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Badminton England.-Medalists:-Medal account:-References:...	Preston, ENG
1	Singles	1982 1982 European Badminton Championships The 8th European Badminton Championships were held in Böblingen, West Germany, between 13 and 18 April 1982, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and Deutscher Badminton-Verband e.V..-Medalists:-Men's singles:-Women's singles:...	Böblingen, GER
2	Singles	1974 1974 European Badminton Championships The 4th European Badminton Championships were held in Vienna , between 18 and 20 April 1974, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Österreichischer Badminton Verband.-Medalists:-Medal account:-References:...	Vienna, AUT
2 2	Singles Mixed doubles	1976 1976 European Badminton Championships The 5th European Badminton Championships were held in Dublin, Ireland, between 6 and 7 April 1976, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Badminton Union of Ireland.-Medalists:-Medal account:-References:...	Dublin, IRL
2	Mixed doubles	1978	Preston, ENG
3	Women's doubles	1972 1972 European Badminton Championships The 3rd European Badminton Championships were held in Karlskrona , between 14 and 16 April 1972, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Svenska Badmintonförbundet.-Medalists:-Medal account:-References:...	Karlskrona, SWE
3	Women's doubles	1982	Böblingen, GER
International Opens
1	Singles	1979, 1980	All England Open All England Open Badminton Championships The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments. Played annually, it developed after the success of world's first badminton tournament held in Guildford in 1898...

External links

• Lene Køppen's Profile - Badminton.dk