Nanna Vainio Explained

Nanna Vainio
Country:Finland
Birth Date:1991 5, df=y
Birth Place:Ekenäs, Finland
Handedness:Right
Event:Women's singles
Career Record:109 wins, 124 losses
Highest Ranking:56
Date Of Highest Ranking:3 November 2016

Nanna Vainio (born 29 May 1991)[1] is a right handed Finnish badminton player who lives in Espoo in Finland. Since 2009 she has been the Finnish singles champion several times.

Career

Vainio was born on Ekenäs in 1991. She first competed internationally in Latvia when she was 14 and she has been in the national team since 2008.[2] She graduated from high school in Espoo Mattlidens gymnasium in 2010, after which she studied for a degree in information management and business administration at Loughborough University in England.[3] In 2013, she moved to Copenhagen, where she studied for a master's degree and was trained by Anu Nieminen at the Copenhagen Badminton Center. She graduated in 2015 and has since been training again in Finland.[4]

Vainio has been ranked as 56th in the world and she represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She lost in the first round of the tournament to the Spanish player Carolina Marín[1] who has been ranked number one in the world.[5]

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2011Slovenian International Carola Bott13–21, 10–21 Runner-up
2015Iceland International Mette Poulsen11–21, 9–21 Runner-up
2015Mauritius International Airi Mikkelä21–16, 21–11 Winner
2015Morocco International Lianne Tan21–15, 22–24, 8–21 Runner-up
2016Iceland International Julie Dawal Jakobsen17–21, 6–21 Runner-up
2016Peru International Airi Mikkelä13–21, 17–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nanna Vainio . Rio 2016 . 6 August 2016 . 6 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160806085423/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/nanna-vainio . dead .
  2. http://bwfbadminton.com/player/42731/nanna-vainio/ranking-history Nanna Vainio
  3. http://issuu.com/nicopy/docs/valmis_salo_sportpressen_talvi_2011 Mainio Vainio oikealla tiellä, Isaksson, Janne
  4. http://rio.sulkapallo.fi/rio-team/pelaajat/nanna-vainio/ Nanna Vainio
  5. Web site: Carolina Marín. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100247/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/carolina-marin-1.html . dead . 2020-04-18 .