Tonny Ahm

Tonny Kristine Ahm (f. Olsen) (21 September 1914 – 7 April 1993) was a female badminton player from Denmark.

Tonny Ahm
Personal information
Birth nameTonny Kristine Olsen
Country Denmark
Born(1914-09-21)21 September 1914
Died7 April 1993(1993-04-07) (aged 78)

She won 26 Danish National Championships between 1935 and 1957. She won eleven events at the prestigious All-England Championships, all but one of them after reaching the age of thirty. In her early forties she played singles for Denmark in the first Uber Cup (women's world team championship) series, and helped her team to a second-place finish.

Ahm was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997.

Major achievements
Rank Event Date Venue
Open Championships
1 Mixed doubles 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952 All England Open
Women's doubles 1939,[1] 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952
1 Singles 1950, 1952 All England Open
1 Women's doubles 1935-36, 1937–38,[1] 1945–46, 1947–48,
1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52		 Denmark Open
Singles 1936-37, 1938–39,[1] 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48,
1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52
Mixed doubles 1948-49, 1949–50, 1951–52
2 Singles 1948, 1951 All England Open
Women's doubles 1949

References
Notes
  1. As Tonny Olsen
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