At first of the week, we had been very proud to disclose a brand new transformative strategy to our Efficiency programme at Badminton England.
Now on the finish of the week, we’re so excited to introduce a brand new addition to our teaching workers. And on this planet of badminton teaching, names don’t come a lot larger!
To complement the brand new construction and the brand-new roles which have been introduced this week, Christinna Pedersen has joined Badminton England as Efficiency Coach.
Pedersen will probably be courtside on the Nationwide Badminton Centre for one four-day week each month to supply specialist teaching experience to the programme. Half-funded by GB Badminton, Christinna’s position will probably be to develop each our coaches and athletes with a selected deal with our three doubles disciplines, to develop efficiency requirements throughout these disciplines and to make sure there may be consistency within the supply of our programme by integrating the best behaviours all through the efficiency construction.
Aalborg-born Pedersen involves court docket with not solely a wealth of expertise however a raft of doubles titles and trophies on her embellished enjoying CV.
A blended doubles partnership with compatriot Joachim Fischer Nielsen was fashioned in 2008 and the duo gained two European blended doubles titles, bronze at each the 2009 and 2014 World Championships in addition to bronze on the London 2012 Olympics Video games.
On the BWF circuit, they produced some phenomenal outcomes – the world primary pairing profitable a complete of three World Superseries Finals and a surprising ten Superseries titles; the primary and final of these titles each coming of their homeland on the 2008 and 2016 Denmark Open. And partnering Mathias Christiansen, Pedersen earned a Combined Doubles World Tour triumph on the Tremendous 500 India Open in 2018.
In ladies’s doubles, Pedersen paired with Kamilla Rytter Juhl for eight years. A silver medal on the 2015 World Championships was sandwiched between and a bronze medal on the World Championships in 2013 and 2018. The duo gained a complete of 4 European ladies’s doubles titles collectively, one World Superseries Ultimate, 5 Superseries trophies and a silver medal on the 2016 Rio Olympics – changing into the primary Europeans to ever compete in an Olympic ladies’s doubles last.
On this nation, Pedersen reached the ultimate of The YONEX All England Open twice – shedding to Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan and Debby Susanto with Nielsen in 2016 earlier than incomes runners-up standing alongside Rytter Juhl when edged out by South Korean pairing Chang Ye-na and Lee So-hee the next 12 months. However in 2018, Pedersen did etch her identify into All England historical past with a 21-19, 21-18 win over Japanese ladies’s doubles pair Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota.
Can Christinna additionally provide our junior gamers with useful perception into easy methods to navigate the trail to senior elite competitors? In fact she will be able to! Almost 20 years in the past, she got here away from Den Bosch in Netherlands with two gold medals and one silver, profitable the Combined Doubles occasion in addition to the Combined Group triumph for Denmark on the European Junior Badminton Championships.
Badminton England and GB Badminton are completely delighted to have added the experience of Christinna Pedersen to our teaching nook.
