Tonny Ahm

Tonny Ahm
Personal information
Birth name	Tonny Kristine Olsen
Country	Denmark
Born	(1914-09-21)21 September 1914
Died	7 April 1993(1993-04-07) (aged 78)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Denmark Uber Cup 1957 Lancashire Women's team

Tonny Kristine Ahm (f. Olsen) (21 September 1914 – 7 April 1993) was a female badminton player from Denmark.

She won 26 Danish National Championships between 1935 and 1957. She won eleven events at the prestigious All-England Championships, all but one of them after reaching the age of thirty. In her early forties she played singles for Denmark in the first Uber Cup (women's world team championship) series, and helped her team to a second-place finish.

Ahm was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997.

Major achievements

Rank	Event	Date	Venue
Open Championships
1	Mixed doubles	1947, 1950, 1951, 1952	All England Open
	Women's doubles	1939,[1] 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952
1	Singles	1950, 1952	All England Open
1	Women's doubles	1935-36, 1937–38,[1] 1945–46, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52	Denmark Open
	Singles	1936-37, 1938–39,[1] 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52
	Mixed doubles	1948-49, 1949–50, 1951–52
2	Singles	1948, 1951	All England Open
	Women's doubles	1949

References

Notes

1. As Tonny Olsen

General

• ChinaBadminton: Tonny Ahm (丹麦)

External links

• Tonny Ahm's Profile - Badminton.dk