(1943-02-16) 16 February 1943 (age 81) Ystad, Sweden
Height
163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight
55 kg (121 lb)
Years active
1959 – 1986
Coach
Bertil Johnsson
Women's singles
Career title(s)
All England (1968, 1971) European Champion (1970)
Highest ranking
World number 1 (1968 – 1971)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing Sweden
European Championships
1970 Port Talbot
Women's singles
1968 Bochum
Women's singles
1972 Karlskrona
Women's singles
1972 Karlskrona
Mixed doubles
Eva Twedberg (earlier Eva Pettersson; later Eva Stuart) is a former Swedish badminton player who won women's singles at numerous international championships. Noted for her stamina and swift court coverage, her peak years were the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among other titles, she won the World Invitational Championships held in Glasgow, in 1971 in both singles and doubles, the prestigious All-England singles title in 1968 and 1971;[1] the Danish Open in 1968, 1970,[2] and 1972; the U.S. Open in 1972 and 1973;[3] and the European Championships in 1970.[4] Mrs. Stuart is the most successful player in the history of the Swedish National Badminton Championships with a combined total of 44 titles in national restricted and national open competition earned between 1960 and 1976. During the latter part of her badminton career she married the Northumberland county and England badminton internationalist Elliot Stuart and represented Northumberland.
^Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 106.
^Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 152.
^"The 19th U.S.open", Badminton USA, May 1972, 10 and "20th U.S. open", Badminton USA, May 1973, 4.
EvaTwedberg (earlier Eva Pettersson; later Eva Stuart) is a former Swedish badminton player who won women's singles at numerous international championships...
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