Julie Bradbury
Julie Jane Bradbury (born 12 February 1967) is a former English badminton player who represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. She was part of the national mixed team that won the gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, also captured the silver medals in the mixed and women's doubles events. Along with those sporting achievements she is only the second person to hold all five *les in all three disciplines of badminton (singles, doubles, and mixed) at the English National Championships. She reached a career high as world No. 1 in the mixed doubles and No. 4 in the women's doubles.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 1992 Summer Olympics
- 1.2 1996 Summer Olympics
- 2 Achievements
- 2.1 World Cup
- 2.2 Commonwealth Games
- 2.3 European Championships
- 2.4 IBF World Grand Prix
- 2.5 IBF International
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Career
1992 Summer Olympics
Bradbury competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with Gillian Clark. In the first round they beat Erma Sulistianingsih and Rosiana Tendean of Indonesia and in the second round Katrin Schmidt and Kerstin Ubben of Germany. In the quarterfinals they were beaten by the eventual gold medalists, Hwang Hye-young and Chung So-young of Korea, 5–15, 5–15.
1996 Summer Olympics
Bradbury competed in badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the mixed and women's doubles events. Teamed-up with Joanne Goode, they had a bye in the first round, but was defeated by Ann Jørgensen and Lotte Olsen of Denmark 4–15, 5–15 in the second round. In the mixed doubles event, she and Simon Archer were eliminated in the early rounds to Indonesian pair Flandy Limpele and Rosalina Riseu.
Achievements
World Cup
Women's doubles
Commonwealth Games
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
European Championships
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
IBF World Grand Prix
The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
IBF International
Women's singles
Women's doubles
References
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Julie Bradbury". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- British Olympic *ociation > Julie Bradbury