Nottingham Blazers Wheelchair Badminton Club News
February / March 2010 Edition
Bernadette O'Driscoll & Owen Kilburn
Nottingham Blazers players Bernadette O’Driscoll and Owen Kilburn joined almost 100 elite disabled athletes who descended upon Glasgow to compete in the Scottish leg of the 4 Nations Disability Badminton Championships, played from 19th to 21st February 2010 at the Scotstoun International Sports Arena
It was double gold for Bernadette (pictured below), firstly in the ladies singles class 1 final against Laura-Lee Jenkins (Ireland) in a nail biting final game to win 21-9, 24-22. Then teaming up with mixed doubles partner David Follett (England) they caused one of the surprise results of the tournament beating reigning mixed doubles champions Laura-Lee Jenkins and partner Gobi Ranganthan 21-18, 21-19
Bernadette O'Driscoll
Blazers current men’s double champion Owen Kilburn and partner Gobi Ranganthan (pictured below) continued their battle with fellow England pair of David Follett and Rowan Crossman in the men’s doubles final as they did in Dublin last year, but couldn’t repeat the result losing 14-21, 21-16, 14-21
Gobi Rangathan & Owen Kilburn
All the athletes taking part were a credit to themselves and their countries for producing three days of fantastic badminton
Nottingham Blazers hope to continue its success by taking a full strength squad for our home leg in Manchester, which will be held in conjunction with the European Badminton Championships, at the Manchester Evening News Arena between the 14th - 18th April 2010 with the 4 Nations tournament commencing on the 16th - 18th April at the Sugden Sports Centre
