Aileen Travers
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| Born | Aileen Margaret Nairn 19 October 1966[1] Perth, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Dan Travers | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Perth BC | |||||||||||||||||
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Aileen Margaret Travers (née Nairn; born 19 October 1966) is a former international badminton player from Scotland who competed at three Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Born Aileen Margaret Nairn, she played out of Perth and was a successful junior player,[2] winning the Scottish junior singles and doubles and winning a bronze medal at the 1986 European Junior Championships.[1]
A Dundee dental graduate, she lived in Muirend Grove, Perth[3] and was a full Scottish international.[4]
Nairn represented the Scottish team[5] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she competed in the women's and mixed doubles events.[6]
She was the 1987 singles champion at the Scottish National Badminton Championships.[7][8] Nairn won three consecutive mixed doubles national titles with Dan Travers from 1989 to 1991[7] and attended her second and third Commonwealth Games at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, respectively.
Nairn played in her third Games under the name of Aileen Travers, following her marriage to her doubles partner Dan Travers.[9][10]
In 1997, Travers teamed up with Elinor Middlemiss and they won the national doubles.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Alison's hard work is paying off now". Perthshire Advertiser. 1 November 1982. p. 15. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Alison's hard work is paying off now". Aberdeen Evening Express. 1 November 1982. p. 15. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Allen's three titles". The Scotsman. 25 October 1982. p. 16. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Aileen Nairn called up for badminton duty in Sweden". The Scotsman. 26 March 1986. p. 24. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Wells picked for Games team". Dundee Courier. 24 June 1986. p. 12. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scotland Edinburgh 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Scottish National Championships". Badminton Scotland. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Scotland". Badminton Europe. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Travers to look after future of badminton". Dundee Courier. 29 February 1996. p. 20. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Travers seeks different future". www.heraldscotland.com. Herald Scotland. 8 March 1995. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "Gibson on the trail of eighth title". The Scotsman. 31 January 1997. p. 41. Retrieved 14 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.