Aileen Travers
Scottish international badminton player
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aileen Margaret Travers (née Nairn; born 19 October 1966) is a former international badminton player from Scotland who competed at three Commonwealth Games.
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Aileen Margaret Nairn 19 October 1966[1] Perth, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Dan Travers | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Perth BC | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||
Biography
Born Aileen Margaret Nairn, she played out of Perth and was a successful junior player,[2] winning the Scottish junior singles and doubles and winning a bronze medal at the 1986 European Junior Championships.[1]
A Dundee dental graduate, she lived in Muirend Grove, Perth[3] and was a full Scottish international.[4]
Nairn represented the Scottish team[5] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she competed in the women's and mixed doubles events.[6]
She was the 1987 singles champion at the Scottish National Badminton Championships.[7][8] Nairn won three consecutive mixed doubles national titles with Dan Travers from 1989 to 1991[7] and attended her second and third Commonwealth Games at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, respectively.
Nairn played in her third Games under the name of Aileen Travers, following her marriage to her doubles partner Dan Travers.[9][10]
In 1997, Travers teamed up with Elinor Middlemiss and they won the national doubles.[11]