Muriel Woodcock
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | c.1940[1] Greenock, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | singles, doubles | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Ardgowan BC Cazinove BC, Middlesex | ||||||||||||||
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Muriel Woodcock (née Ferguson) (born c.1940) is a former badminton player from Scotland who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Born Muriel Ferguson, she won seven consecutive Scottish National singles titles, in addition to five doubles titles.[2] Ferguson also won two Scottish Open singles titles.
Ferguson represented the Scotland team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles events,[3] where she won a mixed doubles bronze medal with Bob McCoig.[4] At the time of the games she was based in London and played for the Cazinove Badminton Club in Middlesex.[5]
Ferguson married in 1969 and played under her married name of Woodcock thereafter.[6]
Partnering Bob McCoig again, Woodcock was runner-up in mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships in 1968.[7]
References
- ^ "Young newcomers in West tennis teams". The Scotsman. 17 July 1958. p. 13. Retrieved 11 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England (Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 157.
- ^ "England Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ^ "Bronze for McCoig". Middlesex County Times. 12 August 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 11 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Badminton". The Scotsman. 26 November 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 11 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "County's runaway win". Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph. 23 February 1968. p. 15. Retrieved 11 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 168.