Robyn Ashworth
Welsh international badminton player
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Robyn Ashworth (born 26 February 1981) is a former international badminton player from Wales who competed at two Commonwealth Games and is a doubles champion of Wales.[2]
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||
| Born | 26 February 1981[1] | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||
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Biography
Ashworth represented Gwent at county level[3] and in 1997 she was the number 1 ranked Welsh U17 and U19 player.[4]
She subsequently represented Wales at international level,[5] gaining her first cap at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she partnered Natasha Groves-Burke in the women's doubles event.[6] At the Games, in addition to the women's doubles, Ashworth participated for the Welsh team[7] in the singles and team events.[8]
Ashworth specialised in doubles play and partnered Matthew Hughes in mixed doubles[9] and Harriett Johnson in women's doubles.[10] She represented the Welsh team again at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, taking part in the doubles events and continued to represent Wales after the 2002 Games.[11]
Ashworth was the women's doubles champion of Wales at the 2005 Welsh National Badminton Championships.[12]