Per Walsøe Explained

Per Walsøe
Birth Date:1943
Country:Denmark
Titles:1970 European Men's doubles champion

Per Walsøe is a Danish former Supreme Court judge[1] and a retired male badminton player who won a number of Danish national and international doubles titles from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

Career

Walsoe won the gold medal at the 1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Elo Hansen. He also captured the mixed doubles crown at the prestigious All-England Championships with Pernille Molgaard Hansen in 1970, having previously reached the final with the same partner in 1966 and 1967.[2] Walsoe was also a runner-up with Svend Andersen (Pri) in the 1967 All-England men's doubles to fellow Danes Erland Kops and Henning Borch.[3] One of the physically largest men to have played world class badminton, Walsoe represented Denmark in Thomas Cup (world men's team) competition in the '66-'67, '69-'70, and '75-'76 seasons.[4] [5]

Achievements

Men's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1967Swedish Open Svend Pri Henning Borch
Erland Kops
Winner
1967All England Svend Pri Henning Borch
Erland Kops
8–15, 12–15 Runner-up
1970Swedish Open Svend Pri Poul Peterson
Elo Hansen
Winner
1970Denmark Open Svend Pri Henning Borch
Erland Kops
Runner-up
1971Swedish Open Svend Pri Henning Borch
Erland Kops
Winner

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-06-06. Højesteretsdommer med fjerboldøje fylder 75. 2020-06-07. fyens.dk. da.
  2. Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 168.
  3. Scheele, 165.
  4. Scheele, 82.
  5. Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 126.