Lene Køppen

Lene Køppen
Personal information
Country	Denmark
Born	(1953-05-05) May 5, 1953
Singles & doubles

Lene Køppen (born May 5, 1953) is a former badminton player from Denmark who won numerous Danish national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and Camilla Martin are the only Danish women to win both the World (1977) and All-England (1979, 1980) singles titles. In the first IBF World Championships in 1977 she captured mixed doubles (with Steen Skovgaard) as well as women's singles to become the first of only seven players, through 2010, to win two events in the same edition of this tournament. Notably, her badminton success came as she was studying and then practising dentistry. She was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the mother of badminton player Marie Røpke.

Major achievements

Rank	Event	Date	Venue
World Championships
1	Mixed doubles	1977	Malmö, SWE
1	Singles	1977	Malmö, SWE
3 3	Singles Mixed doubles	1980	Jakarta, INA
European Championships
1	Singles	1978	Preston, ENG
1	Singles	1982	Böblingen, GER
2	Singles	1974	Vienna, AUT
2 2	Singles Mixed doubles	1976	Dublin, IRL
2	Mixed doubles	1978	Preston, ENG
3	Women's doubles	1972	Karlskrona, SWE
3	Women's doubles	1982	Böblingen, GER
International Opens
1	Singles	1979, 1980	All England Open

External links

• Lene Køppen's Profile - Badminton.dk