Anu Nieminen

Anu Kristiina Nieminen (born 16 December 1977; née Weckström) is a Finnish badminton player. Born in Helsinki, Nieminen joined the national team in 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is one of the best badminton players in Finland, having won twelve National Championships,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nieminen first represented Finland at the Olympic level at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She reached the second round before losing to Kanako Yonekura of Japan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 2004 Olympics, she was defeated by Kaori Mori of Japan in the Round of 32.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2006, she signed with the Finnish cosmetics company Lumene, along with her husband, professional tennis player Jarkko Nieminen.

Nieminen competed at the 2008 Olympics, she again reached the second round, this time losing to Huaiwen Xu of Germany.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 2012 Olympics, she won her first match against Victoria Montero of Mexico, but after losing to Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, she did not advance beyond the group stages.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2013, she joined the Lillerød Badminton in Denmark as a coach for the young players.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Slovak Open	Template:Flagicon Patty Stolzenbach	21–14, 19–21, 21–16	Template:Gold1 Winner
2008	Austrian International	Template:Flagicon Zhang Xi	21–19, 13–21, 9–21	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2005	Italian International	Template:Flagicon Tine Rasmussen	4–11, 5–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2003	Dominican Republic International	Template:Flagicon Miyo Akao	5–11, 11–7, 11–13	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2002	Slovenian International	Template:Flagicon Petya Nedelcheva	11–6, 1–11, 9–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2002	Finnish International	Template:Flagicon Petya Nedelcheva	7–1, 7–4, 7–0	Template:Gold1 Winner
2001	Irish International	Template:Flagicon Kara Solmundson	3–7, 7–1, 2–7, 5–7	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2001	Norwegian International	Template:Flagicon Tatiana Vattier	7–0, 7–1, 7–4	Template:Gold1 Winner
2001	Portugal International	Template:Flagicon Pi Hongyan	8–11, 1–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2000	Scottish International	Template:Flagicon Christina Sørensen	11–4, 3–11, 11–4	Template:Gold1 Winner
2000	Norwegian International	Template:Flagicon Katja Wengberg	11–7, 11–6	Template:Gold1 Winner
2000	Croatian International	Template:Flagicon Markéta Koudelková	11–6, 11–4	Template:Gold1 Winner
2000	Dutch International	Template:Flagicon Lonneke Janssen	3–11, 3–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2000	Cuba International	Template:Flagicon Takako Ida	2–11, 4–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1999	Irish International	Template:Flagicon Miho Tanaka	9–11, 5–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1999	Guatemala International	Template:Flagicon Denyse Julien	6–11, 10–13	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1999	Argentina International	Template:Flagicon Kara Solmundson	6–11, 6–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1999	Brazil International	Template:Flagicon Kara Solmundson	13–10, 11–9	Template:Gold1 Winner
1999	Bulgarian International	Template:Flagicon Elena Nozdran	6–11, 8–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1998	Scottish International	Template:Flagicon Margit Borg	5–11, 3–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
1998	Austrian International	Template:Flagicon Carolien Glebbeek	3–11, 12–9, 8–11	Template:Silver2 Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2000	Norwegian International	Template:Flagicon Nina Weckström	Template:Flagicon Caroline Eriksson Template:Flagicon Johanna Persson	10–15, 15–10, 15–7	Template:Gold1 Winner

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