Joanna Flockhart
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Q2.1947[1] Lancaster, Lancashire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Newmills BC Dunfermline BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanna Doreen Flockhart, née Liddle (born 1947) is a retired female badminton player of Scotland, who won a medal at the world championships and competed at three Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Born Joanna Liddle, in Lancashire, she lived in Harrogate, Yorkshire[2] and began her badminton career whilst still single.[3]
She married fellow badminton player Adam Flockhart in 1968,[4] and settled in Dunfermline after the marriage and played under her married name thereafter.[5][2]
She contested the 1969 East of Scotland final and in November 1969 she was selected for the Scottish Commonwealth Games trials.[6][7]
Flockhart represented the Scottish team[8] at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[9] where she competed in the badminton events.[10]
In 1972, she won the first of her 18 titles at the Scottish National Badminton Championships. She won the bronze medal at the 1977 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Billy Gilliland.[11] and also won medals at the Commonwealth Games and European Championships.
In 1981 she retired from county matches due to the 450-mile round trip from her home in Dunfermline to play for her Yorkshire county team.[2]
Her son Bruce Lockhart won the Scottish National Badminton Championships eight times and her grandson Calum Flockhart won the 2025 Midland Silver Badminton Championships.[12]
References
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
- ^ a b c "Flockhart returns". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 28 January 1981. p. 17. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Top seeds in East badminton finals". Birmingham Daily Post. 8 January 1965. p. 26. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
- ^ "Flockharts go marching on". The Scotsman. 30 October 1976. p. 15. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Fit Barbara will play for Ireland". Ireland's Saturday Night. 8 November 1969. p. 11. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Top seeds in East badminton finals". The Scotsman. 6 December 1969. p. 16. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Swimming for their country". Aberdeen Evening Express. 26 May 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "They'll carry Scotland's hopes". Aberdeen Evening Express. 16 June 1970. p. 11. Retrieved 13 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scotland Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20111105093557/http://sports123.com/bad/we-d.html Sports 123
- ^ "West Fife badminton player Calum Flockhart wins title double". Dunfermline Press. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 13 January 2026.