Susan Devlin

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Susan Devlin Peard
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Birth nameSusan Devlin
CountryUnited States
Ireland
Born1931 (age 9293)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Uber Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1957 Lancashire Women's team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1960 Philadelphia Women's team

Susan Devlin Peard (born 1931) is an American-Irish former badminton player who represented both the US and Ireland in international competition. She is the daughter of J. Frank Devlin, an Irish badminton great, who moved his family to the United States in the late 1930s. She is the older sister of Judy Devlin Hashman, with whom she won numerous international women's doubles championships, including six titles at the prestigious All-England Championships (1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1966). [1]

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Career

The Devlin sisters won a record ten United States women's doubles titles between 1953 and 1966. [2] They also formed a doubles pairing that won all of its individual matches for the world champion U.S. Uber Cup (women's international) teams of 1957 and 1960. [3] In 1960 Susan Devlin married Irish badminton player Frank Peard and thereafter resided in Ireland. She won two Irish national women's doubles titles and played Uber Cup for Ireland in the '62-'63 and '65-'66 campaigns. [4] In 1976 she was inducted into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame, now known as the Walk of Fame. In 2009, both Susan and Judy were inducted into the Goucher College athletics Hall of Fame.

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References

  1. Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness, Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 108.
  2. Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 313.
  3. Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. 1967) 97-101.
  4. Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1967) 102-106.