Martin Lundgaard Hansen

Martin Lundgaard Hansen, born on 11 October 1972, is a Danish badminton player who began in singles, played at the 1993 IBF World Championships, and then chose to specialise in doubles. With Lars Paaske he won the men's doubles at the Denmark Open in 1999 and 2001 and played at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where they lost in the second round to Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja. His best-known partnership was with Jens Eriksen, with whom he won the All England Open in 2004 and 2006, took gold at the European Championships and spent about six months as world number one. At the 2004 Olympics the pair beat the second seeds Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng in the quarter-finals but lost the semi-final and the bronze medal match, finishing fourth.