Muriel Woodcock
Scottish badminton player
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Muriel Woodcock (née Ferguson) (born c.1940) is a former badminton player from Scotland who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | c.1940[1] Greenock, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | singles, doubles | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Ardgowan BC Cazinove BC, Middlesex | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Born Muriel Ferguson, she won seven consecutive Scottish National singles titles, in addition to five doubles titles.[2] Ferguson also won two Scottish Open singles titles.
Ferguson represented the Scotland team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles events,[3] where she won a mixed doubles bronze medal with Bob McCoig.[4] At the time of the games she was based in London and played for the Cazinove Badminton Club in Middlesex.[5]
Ferguson married in 1969 and played under her married name of Woodcock thereafter.[6]
Partnering Bob McCoig again, Woodcock was runner-up in mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships in 1968.[7]