| Margaret Barrand | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | England | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1940 (age 84–85)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Margaret Barrand (née Margaret Semple) (born 1940) is a former Englishbadminton international player and a former national champion.[2]
Barrand became an English National doubles champion after winning theEnglish National Badminton Championships mixed doubles title withRoger Mills in 1965.[3][4] The following year she won the women's doubles withAngela Bairstow.[5] She was a member of the1963 English Uber Cup team which finished second to the United States in a tight four games to three final. Her most impressive badminton accomplishment, perhaps, was winning mixed doubles at theU.S. Open Badminton Championships in three successive years (1963, 1964, and 1965), each time with a different partner ( in order:Sangob Rattanusorn,Channarong Ratanaseangsuang, andBob McCoig). She also won the 1965Canadian Open mixed doubles with McCoig and the 1965 U.S Open women's doubles withJennifer Pritchard Horton.
She represented Lancashire and England and played under the name of Semple until she married a vicar called George Barrand in 1958, playing thereafter as Barrand.
Mixed doubles
| Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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| 1963 | US Open |  Sangob Rattanusorn |  Joe AlstonLois Alston |  Winner | |
| 1964 | U.S. Open | Channarong Ratanaseangsuang | Joe Alston Lois Alston | Walkover | Winner |
| 1965 | U.S Open |  Bob McCoig |  Tony JordanJenny Horton | 15-7, 12-15, 15-12 | Winner |
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