- Flemming Delfs
Infobox Badminton player
playername = Flemming Delfs
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event = Men's singles
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country = DEN
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handedness = Right
titles = 1977 World Champion
bwf_id =Flemming Delfs is a Danish
badminton player. He is especially noteworthy as the firstIBF World Championships Men's Singles champion, which he won at the inaugural championships held inSweden [Pat Davis, The "Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 109.] . That same1976 /1977 season he dominated by winning nearly all other noteworthy tournaments, including the All-England Championships [Davis, 149] . He won three consecutive European men's singles titles in 1976, 1978, and 1980 [Davis, 115. ] . Delfs played on all four DanishThomas Cup (men's international) teams between 1972 and 1982, two of which (1973, 1979) reached the Challenge Round before losing to Indonesia [Davis 125-128.] . Tall, with an elegant style and powerful backhand, Delfs was a highly impressive player at his best, but typically had difficulty in the hot, humid conditions he encountered in the Far East [Davis, 149.] .References
External links
* [http://www.badminton.dk/default.asp?pageid=467 Flemming Delfs] , official
Danmarks Badminton Forbund profile, retrieved16 May ,2006 .
* [http://www.badminton.dk/Elite%20uk/Profiler%20uk/Gamle%20stjerner/Profiler%20gamle%20stjerner/Flemming%20Delfs.aspx Flemming Delfs's Profile - Badminton.dk]
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