Tonny Ahm
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| Born | Tonny Kristine Olsen 21 September 1914 Ordrup, Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 April 1993 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Badminton | ||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||
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Tonny Kristine Ahm (f. Olsen) (21 September 1914 – 7 April 1993) was a female badminton player from Denmark.
She won 26 Danish National Championships between 1935 and 1957 mainly playing for Gentofte BK. On the international level, She won twelve events at the prestigious All-England Championships, all but one of them after reaching the age of thirty and also 19 titles in all 3 available categories in Denmark Open. In her early forties she played singles for Denmark in the first Uber Cup (women's world team championship) series and helped her team to a second-place finish, losing to the United States in the final.
Ahm was included in the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997, 4 years after her death.