Nancy Horner

{{short description|Scottish badminton player and official}}

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Nancy Horner was a Scottish badminton player and prominent badminton official.{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Pat|title=Guinness Book of Badminton|year=1983|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-271-X}}

Horner was the Vice-President of the Badminton Association of England from 1967 to 1975 and was the only female member on an eighty-strong list at the time. She won 15 caps for Scotland as a player and won every available title in the Scottish Open and the English National Badminton Championships.{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/reference-online|title=Times Archives|publisher=Oxfordshire Libraries}}

A regular competitor in the All England Open Badminton Championships, she reached the quarter-finals in 1950 and won three Scottish Open titles in 1953.{{cite news |title=Three titles for Mrs Horner |work=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=19 January 1953 |access-date=31 March 2022 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19530119/059/0006| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

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