Peter Steffensen

Steffensen was born and raised in a town in western Jutland near Herning. He has lived in Copenhagen since 2001 and has a professional academic background in Pedagogy. As a player, Peter was playing professionally from 2001 to 2009 on the Danish National Badminton Team, where he played doubles alongside Jonas Rasmussen, Mathias Boe and Thomas Laybourn winning several international titles in Europe in Sweden, Greece and the Netherlands. He won two Danish youth titles in 2001, including the Croatia International. In 2002 he won at the Iceland International and the 2003 Dutch International. In 2005 he represented Denmark at the IBF World Championships in the United States. In 2006 he was successful at the International in Italy, Bulgaria and Finland, managing to position itself as number 10 in the world. In 2008 he won at the Swedish International in Stockholm. He currently serves as a Coach for several of the Danish Badminton clubs, having training experience at Lillerød and KBK Copenhagen, where he served as the Senior Head Coach for the first division.[3]