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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 September 1972 [1] [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dunfermline | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Flockhart (born 8 September 1972) is a former international badminton player from Scotland who competed at three Commonwealth Games.
Flockhart was born in 1972 [1] into a badminton family, his parents were Adam Flockhart and Joanna Flockhart. Bruce was based in Dunfermline [3] and represented Scotland at international level. [4]
He was a bursar at the University of Stirling by profession [2] and reached the number 1 ranking in Scotland. [5]
In 1994 he won the first of his eight singles titles at the Scottish National Badminton Championships [6] and represented the Scottish team [7] at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, where he competed in the badminton events. [8]
Four years later he went to his second Games at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, [1] by which time he had secured his second and third national singles titles. [6]
In 2000, he was based in Kelty, Fife, and unfortunately missed the 2000 Summer Olympics due to injury. [9] However, he did attend a third Commonwealth Games in 2002 and won a bronze medal in the mixed team event. [10]
At retirement he was an eight times singles champion of Scotland. [11] [12]
