Margaret Boxall

Margaret Boxall (later Margaret Allen) is a retired badminton player from England.

Margaret Boxall
Personal information
Nationality England
BornHarlow, England
Medal record
Badminton
Representing  England
All England Open Badminton Championships
1969 London doubles
1970 London doubles
British Commonwealth Games
1970 Edinburgh doubles
1970 Edinburgh mixed
1970 Edinburgh singles
1974 Christchurch doubles

Career

Boxall won the women's doubles with Susan Whetnall at the prestigious All-England Championships in both 1969 and 1970.[1]

She also won the gold medal at the 1968 and the 1970 European Badminton Championships in women's doubles with Susan Whetnall.[2]

She represented England and won double gold and a bronze medal, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[3][4]

Four years later she won a silver medal in the doubles at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[5]

References
  1. Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 108.
  2. Herbert Scheele, The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J.A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 326.
  3. "1970 Athletes". Team England.
  4. "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
  5. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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