Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE ( born July 23, 1977 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England) is a British badminton player. Your greatest achievements came as a double player.
Career
Emms began at the age of four years with badminton. Since 1995 she is a member of the British National Team. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester she won with her partner Joanne Goode a bronze medal in women's doubles. With the England team, she won the gold medal in the mixed team competition. In the English Badminton Championships, she won three times in the title in the mixed doubles and two in women's doubles.
Her most successful year was 2004. She was first at the European Championships in Geneva with her partner Nathan Robertson in the mixed doubles for the first time in her career European champion. With Robertson at her side she struggled at the Olympic Games in Athens in the mixed doubles to the finals before, but there was defeated in three sets almost double the Chinese Zhang Jun and Gao Ling same year, the pair also won the Mixed with the Thailand Open.
In 2005 and 2006 she managed jointly with Nathan to win the Swiss Open in mixed doubles. That was the first time ever in the history of the tournament is that it was a mixed mating to defend the title.
As of July 27, 2006 she attended - along with Donna Kellogg - Rank 4 in women's doubles and mixed with Nathan Robertson Rank 5 Thus it has occupied the best non-Asian position in both disciplines.
Along with Nathan Robertson Gail Emms won the World Championships in mixed doubles world champion on September 24, 2006, the Individual. This year, she also managed to get along with Dona Kellogg European champions in women's doubles.
At the European Championships 2008 in Herning, she won with Donna Kellogg and the silver medal in mixed doubles with Nathan Robertson the bronze medal.
For the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson were qualified in mixed but not set. In the first round they won against the set at position 1 Chinese Gao Ling and Zheng Bo in three sets. In the quarterfinals, they failed Hyo -jung at the later gold medalists Lee Yong -dae and Lee from South Korea.
After the 2008 Olympics, Gail Emms ended her active career. In 2009 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.