Tonny Ahm Explained

Tonny Ahm
Birth Name:Tonny Kristine Olsen
Birth Date:21 September 1914
Country:Denmark

Tonny Kristine Ahm (f. Olsen) (21 September 1914  - 7 April 1993) was a female badminton player from Denmark.

She won 26 Danish National Championships between 1935 and 1957. She won eleven events at the prestigious All-England Championships, all but one of them after reaching the age of thirty. In her early forties she played singles for Denmark in the first Uber Cup (women's world team championship) series, and helped her team to a second-place finish.

Ahm was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997.

Major achievements

RankEventDateVenue
Open Championships
1Mixed doubles1947, 1950, 1951, 1952All England Open
Women's doubles1939,[1] 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952
1Singles1950, 1952All England Open
1Women's doubles1935-36, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1947–48,
1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52
Denmark Open
Singles1936-37, 1938–39, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48,
1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52
Mixed doubles1948-49, 1949–50, 1951–52
2Singles1948, 1951All England Open
Women's doubles1949

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Notes and References

  1. As Tonny Olsen