Lene Køppen


Lene Køppen is a Danish badminton player who won numerous 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 [IBF IBF World Championships|World Championships|World] and All-England singles titles. In the first IBF World Championships in 1977 she captured the mixed doubles 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 in 1998. She is the mother of badminton player Marie Røpke.

Achievements

World Championships

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1977Malmö Isstadion, Malmö, Sweden

World Games

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1981San Jose Civic Auditorium, California, United States

European Championships

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1972Karlskrona, Sweden

European Junior Championships

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1971Zimní Stadion,
Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia

International tournaments (60 titles, 27 runners-up)

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1970Nordic Championships