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Daniel Magee received the Badminton Europe Coach of the Year Award for 2020 at last week s European Championships in Ukraine. Photo: Badminton Europe
Magee named Coach of the Year Posted: 9:08 am May 14, 2021
By Chris Caldwell
DANIEL Magee was delighted to be named Badminton Europe’s coach of the year at the European Championships in Ukraine.
The Raphoe native was rewarded for the success achieved by Ireland’s badminton players during 2019, which saw his siblings, Chloe and Sam, and Nat Nguyen excel on the international stage.
That season, the Irish team, under the 36-year-old’s leadership, reached the last eight of the European Mixed Team Championship in Bulgaria. Nguyen reached the men’s singles last-16 at the European Games and Sam and Chloe won bronze in the mixed doubles at the same event.
Saturday, 20 February 2021
Denmark retained the European Mixed Team Badminton Championship after thumping France in the final in Vantaa, Finland today.
Denmark have won this competition 17 times and started strongly in the best of five games tie courtesy of world number two Viktor Axelsen.
Axelsen won the men’s singles encounter 21-16 21-12 against European junior champion Christo Popov.
The next match, the women’s singles game, also went the Danes way with Mia Blichfeldt victorious in straight games against Qi Xuefei.
Despite Xuefei getting her nose in front in the second game, Blichfeldt closed out a 21-18 21-19 victory to put Denmark one game away from retaining their mixed team title.
Saturday, 12 December 2020
Russia, England, The Netherlands and Scotland have all qualified for badminton s European Mixed Team Championship after winning their respective qualification groups.
The Netherlands finished top of Group 3 following a tight 3-2 victory over the the Czech Republic, which gave them three wins from three.
That tie all came down to the women s doubles, and Dutch pairing Debora Jille and Cheryl Seinen defeated Czech duo Sabina Milova and Tallulah Sharleen Van Coppenolle.
In the group s other tie in Linz, hosts Austria defeated Slovakia 3-2.
Scotland won Group 6 after a thrilling decider versus Spain, coming from 2-1 down to win 3-2.
Spain and Scotland set for European Mixed Team Championship qualifying decider Friday, 11 December 2020
Spain and Scotland are set for a showdown to decide who advances from Group 6 in qualifying for badminton s European Mixed Team Championship.
Both have three wins from three, and are due to meet in their final match tomorrow.
The Spanish beat hosts Portugal 4-1 in Caldas da Rainha today.
Beatriz Corralles, a bronze medallist at the 2015 European Games, and Luís Enrique Peñalver - a junior gold medallist in the European Mixed Team Championship - both won singles matches to set Spain on their way, and it was not until the fifth match - mixed doubles - that Portugal earned a consolation win.
Spain thrash Latvia in European Mixed Team Championship qualifying Thursday, 10 December 2020
Spain and Portugal look set for a showdown which could decide who qualifies for badminton s 2021 European Mixed Team Championship.
After both won their opening matches in Group 6 5-0 yesterday, Spain followed that up with another whitewash victory against Latvia.
Portugal, hosting the group in Caldas da Rainha, lost to Scotland 4-1.
Spain and Portugal are due to meet tomorrow.
Scotland also beat Ukraine 4-1, while Ukraine in turn enjoyed a 5-0 thrashing of Latvia.
Three other groups got underway today.
In Group 1, hosted by England in Milton Keynes, England made a winning start and beat Hungary 4-1.