Martin Dew
English badminton player
Martin Dew (born 16 August 1958) is a former English male badminton player who specialized in doubles.
Career
Dew won two medals in the World Championships, a silver medal in 1983 for men's doubles and a bronze medal in 1987 for mixed doubles. He shared the mixed doubles title at the All-England Championships twice with Gillian Gilks (1982 and 1984). Dew is also one of the most successful players ever in the European Badminton Championships with four titles, one of them in men's doubles and three in mixed doubles.
He is one of the very few elite players to have completed a Ph.D during his playing career. He gained a Ph.D in 1984 from Hatfield University in the subject of Numerical Optimisation in cooperation with Rolls Royce aeroengines.
Achievements
World Championships
Men's doubles
Mixed doubles
World Cup
Mixed doubles
Commonwealth Games
Men's doubles
Mixed doubles
European Championships
Men's doubles
Mixed doubles
IBF World Grand Prix (26 titles, 19 runners-up)
The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006.
Men's doubles
Mixed doubles
International tournaments (7 titles, 6 runners-up)
Men's doubles
Mixed doubles
References
European results Archived 7 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
English statistics
All England champions 1899-2007
Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. Robert Hale, London, 1987, pp.
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