Nathalie Descamps


Nathalie Descamps is a right-handed badminton player from Belgium. Until 2010, she has won 17 Belgian National Badminton Championships. Descamps also won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event partnered with Wouter Claes.

Career

Descamps currently plays for French First Division Club LUC Badminton Lille located in Lille.
She is currently ranked on place 108 in the Women's singles world ranking. In Belgium she is ranked number 1.
Descamps was selected for the European Players Olympic Forum 2008. In 2008, she received an invitation from the Badminton World Federation to participate to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but the Belgian Olympic Committee uses different selection criteria and decided not to withhold her selection.
During her international career, she participated in four consecutive European Championships. Her best result was a bronze medal in Mixed doubles during the 2010 European Badminton Championships. This was the first Belgian medal ever won on a European Championship.

Clubs

Achievements

European Championships

Mixed doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2010Manchester Evening News Arena,
Manchester, England		 Wouter Claes Thomas Laybourn
Kamilla Rytter Juhl		8–21, 14–21 Bronze

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2008Czech International Séverine Corvilain Helle Nielsen
Marie Røpke		14–21, 15–21 Runner-up
2008Spanish Open Jillie Cooper Shendy Puspa Irawati
Meiliana Jauhari		10–21, 10–21 Runner-up

Mixed doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2010Banuinvest International Wouter Claes Chayut Triyachart
Yao Lei		13–21, 21–23 Runner-up
2009Belgian International Wouter Claes Marcus Ellis
Heather Olver		9–21, 23–25 Runner-up
2008European Circuit Finals Wouter Claes Alexander Nikolaenko
Nina Vislova		7–21, 19–21 Runner-up
2008Spanish Open Wouter Claes Rendra Wijaya
Meiliana Jauhari		14–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2008Austrian International Wouter Claes Zhang Yi
Cai Jiani		18–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2007Irish International Wouter Claes Howard Bach
Eva Lee		10–21, 13–21 Runner-up
2007Croatian International Wouter Claes Adam Cwalina
Małgorzata Kurdelska		21–13, 16–21, 21–13 Winner
2006Irish International Wouter Claes Ruud Bosch
Ginny Severien		14–21, 21–17, 21–17 Winner

National