Camilla Martin

Camilla Martin Nygaard, born Camilla Martin on 23 March 1974, is a retired Danish badminton player who mainly played women's singles. She won the Danish national championships 13 years in a row from 1991 to 2003, was European champion in 1996, 1998 and 2000, World champion in 1999 and won the All England Open in 2002. The only major tournament she never won was the Olympic Games, where she took silver in 2000 after losing the final to Gong Zhichao of China, and in 2004, her last year as an elite player, she lost in the round of 16 to Tracey Hallam of Great Britain. She helped Denmark win the European team championship in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004, and she and Lene Køppen are the only Danish women to have won both the All England and World singles titles. She now works as a sports presenter for TV 2.