Noriko Nakayama
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Noriko Nakayama (nee Noriko Takagi) is a former Japanese badminton player who won numerous Japanese national and major international titles from the mid 1960's to the early 1970's. She claimed seven of these at the Danish Open, two in singles and five in women's doubles. At the prestigious All-England Championships she shared the women's doubles title with Hiroe Yuki in 1971, and in 1972 she won the All-England women's singles title having previously lost twice in the finals [1]. She also won the women's singles event at the Olympic Games Demonstration in 1972. Perhaps Mrs Nakayama's most impressive badminton, however, came in Uber Cup (women's international team) competition. Playing in four successive campaigns between 1965 and 1975 she was unbeaten in singles, thus leading the way to three world team titles for Japan[2].
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- ^ Pat Davis. The Guinness Book of Badminton (Guinness Superlatives Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1983). 106, 108. and Herbert Scheele, Ed. The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England, 1971). 164.
- ^ Pat Davis. The Guinness Book of Badminton (Guinness Superlatives Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1983). 133, 134, 135. and Herbert Scheele, Ed. The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England, 1967). 105-107.
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