Kara Solmundson


Kara Solmundson is a Canadian badminton player. She played for the Manitoba team and clinched the women's singles national champion in 2002. She represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Commonwealth Games. Solmundson was the bronze medallist at the 1999 Pan American Games in the women's singles event.

Personal life

Solmundson graduated from Kelvin High School in her hometown Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1992. She then continued her education in University of Manitoba and received Medical Doctor degree. Following the conclusion of family medicine residency at University of British Columbia, she completed a clinical sport and exercise medicine fellowship through UBC and earned a Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine diploma. She also pursuing her master's degree in the field of Sports and Exercise Medicine. Solmundson now works as a physician at the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre.

Achievements

Pan American Games

Women's singles
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
1999Winnipeg, Canada

Pan Am Championships

Women's singles
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
1997Winnipeg, Canada

IBF International

Women's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2002Polish Opensilver2