Nathalie Descamps

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Nathalie Descamps
Personal information
CountryBelgium
Born (1983-01-05) 5 January 1983 (age 41)
Bilzen, Belgium
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
HandednessRight
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking32 (XD)
Medal record
Badminton
Representing Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg Manchester 2010 Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Nathalie Descamps (born 5 January 1983 in Bilzen) is a right-handed badminton player from Belgium. [1] Until 2010, she has won 17 Belgian National Badminton Championships. [2] Descamps also won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event partnered with Wouter Claes. [3] [4]

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Career

Descamps currently plays for French First Division Club LUC Badminton Lille located in Lille.

She is currently ranked on place 108 (28 September 2008) in the Women's singles world ranking. In Belgium she is ranked number 1.

Descamps was selected for the European Players Olympic Forum 2008 (EPOF). In 2008, she received an invitation from the Badminton World Federation to participate to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but the Belgian Olympic Committee uses different selection criteria and decided not to withhold her selection.

During her international career, she participated in four consecutive European Championships. Her best result was a bronze medal in Mixed doubles (together with partner Wouter Claes) during the 2010 European Badminton Championships. This was the first Belgian medal ever won on a European Championship.

Clubs

YearClubDivisionCityCountry
2007–2008 LUC Badminton Lille 1st National Lille France
2008–2009 Webacsa 1st National Wellen Belgium
2009–2010 LUC Badminton Lille 1st National Lille France

Achievements

European Championships

Mixed doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2010 Manchester Evening News Arena,
Manchester, England
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Laybourn
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl
8–21, 14–21 Med 3.png Bronze

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2008 Czech International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Séverine Corvilain Flag of Denmark.svg Helle Nielsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Marie Røpke
14–21, 15–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2008 Spanish Open Flag of Scotland.svg Jillie Cooper Flag of Indonesia.svg Shendy Puspa Irawati
Flag of Indonesia.svg Meiliana Jauhari
10–21, 10–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up

Mixed doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2010 Banuinvest International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of Singapore.svg Chayut Triyachart
Flag of Singapore.svg Yao Lei
13–21, 21–23Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2009 Belgian International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of England.svg Marcus Ellis
Flag of England.svg Heather Olver
9–21, 23–25Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2008 European Circuit Finals Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Nikolaenko
Flag of Russia.svg Nina Vislova
7–21, 19–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2008 Spanish Open Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of Indonesia.svg Rendra Wijaya
Flag of Indonesia.svg Meiliana Jauhari
14–21, 18–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2008 Austrian International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Yi
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Cai Jiani
18–21, 18–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2007 Irish International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of the United States.svg Howard Bach
Flag of the United States.svg Eva Lee
10–21, 13–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2007 Croatian International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of Poland.svg Adam Cwalina
Flag of Poland.svg Małgorzata Kurdelska
21–13, 16–21, 21–13Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2006 Irish International Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wouter Claes Flag of the Netherlands.svg Ruud Bosch
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Ginny Severien
14–21, 21–17, 21–17Gold medal icon.svgWinner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series/European Circuit tournament

National

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References

  1. "Players: Nathalie Descamps". Badminton World Federation . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. "Belgium". Badminton Europe . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. "Nathalie Descamps combineert sport succesvol met studies" (in German). Het Nieuwsblad . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. "Eerste Belgische eremetaal ooit op EK badminton" (in German). Het Belang van Limburg . Retrieved 29 December 2017.