Nora Perry MBE  (born 1954 as Nora Gardner) is an English former badminton player noted for her anticipation, racket control, and tactical astuteness.
A doubles specialist, Perry won numerous major titles, with a variety of partners, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
These included six All-England mixed doubles and two All-England women's doubles championships.
She won both the 1980 IBF World Championships and the 1980 European Championships in women's doubles with Jane Webster.
Three years later, she won the 1983 IBF World Championships title in mixed doubles with Thomas Kihlström.
Generally regarded as one of the greatest female mixed doubles players in the game's history, in 1999 she was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame.
Achievements
Mixed doubles
World Cup
Mixed doubles
International tournaments
Mixed doubles
Notes
References
All England Champions 1899-2007
English results
European results
Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton.
Robert Hale, London, 1987, p. 120-121,
Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:English female badminton players Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton Category:Badminton players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Category:Badminton players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Category:World Games silver medalists
