Kirsty Gilmour

Gilmour won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, losing out to Michelle Li of Canada in the final and becoming the first Scottish player to reach the women's singles finals at the Commonwealth Games.^[6] She jointly won Scottish Young Sports Personality of the Year 2012 with swimmer Craig Benson.^[7]

On 1 May 2016, Gilmour went down fighting to Carolina Marín, in the finals of the European Championship held in La Roche-sur-Yon, settling for the silver medal.^[8]

Making a second appearance at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gilmour, the eleventh seed, won her opening match against the unseeded Sabrina Jaquet in straight games. However, she lost her second match against the world No. 28 Linda Zetchiri 21–12, 17–21, 16–21, thereby making an exit at the group stage.^[9]

In 2017, she made it back into the final round of the European Championship in Kolding, Denmark but her pace was stopped by defending champion Carolina Marín with score 14–21, 12–21. Gilmour earned a silver medal.^[10]

Gilmour represented Great Britain at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, going out in the group stages after defeating Mahoor Shahzad of Azerbaijan but losing to Japanese fourth seed Akane Yamaguchi.^[11][12]

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, she again went out in the group stages after winning her opening match against Keisha Fatimah Azzahra from Azerbaijan^[13] then losing to China's number six seed He Bingjiao.^[14][15]

Record against Year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists. Accurate as of 28 November 2022.

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Players Matches Results Difference Won Lost Petya Nedelcheva 7 4 3 +1 Chen Yufei 1 0 1 –1 He Bingjiao 4 2 2 0 Li Xuerui 1 0 1 –1 Wang Shixian 2 0 2 –2 Wang Yihan 1 0 1 –1 Zhang Yiman 1 1 0 +1 Tai Tzu-ying 5 0 5 –5 Saina Nehwal 7 0 7 –7 P. V. Sindhu 2 1 1 0

Players Matches Results Difference Won Lost Lindaweni Fanetri 1 1 0 +1 Minatsu Mitani 2 0 2 –2 Nozomi Okuhara 2 0 2 –2 Akane Yamaguchi 4 0 4 –4 An Se-young 5 0 5 –5 Bae Yeon-ju 2 0 2 –2 Sung Ji-hyun 2 0 2 –2 Carolina Marín 10 2 8 –6 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 3 0 3 –3 Ratchanok Intanon 9 1 8 –7

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Gilmour is currently based in Glasgow.^[22] Kirsty Gilmour studied at University of the West of Scotland's Ayr Campus graduating with a BA in Creative Industries Practice in 2015.

Gilmour is openly lesbian^[23] and uses she/her and they/them pronouns. She is currently the only openly LGBT badminton player to be ranked in the top 100 of any event and is one of very few openly LGBT professional badminton players.^[24]

• Scottish National Badminton Championships