SMITH Lauren

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Group Stage	Women's Doubles	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 16	Mixed Doubles	2019	Basel, SUI
Last 16	Mixed Doubles	2018	Nanjing, CHN
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2017	Glasgow, GBR
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2015	Jakarta, INA
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2013	Guangzhou, CHN
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2011	London, GBR
Last 64	Women's Doubles	2019	Basel, SUI
Last 64	Women's Doubles	2014	Copenhagen, DEN

European Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Mixed Doubles	2019	Minsk, BLR
2	Women's Doubles	2019	Minsk, BLR

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Mixed Doubles	2021	Kiev, UKR
2	Women's Doubles	2021	Kiev, UKR
3	Mixed Doubles	2018	Huelva, ESP
3	Women's Doubles	2017	Kolding, DEN
Quarterfinal	Women's Doubles	2018	Huelva, ESP

European Team Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Mixed Team	2017	Lubin, POL
Quarterfinal	Women's Team	2018	Kazan, RUS
Group Stage	Mixed Team	2019	Copenhagen, DEN
Group Stage	Women's Team	2020	Lievin, FRA

HSBC BWF World Tour Finals

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1st Round	Mixed Doubles	2018	Guangzhou, CHN
1st Round	Women's Doubles	2020	Bangkok, THA
1st Round	Mixed Doubles	2020	Bangkok, THA

BWF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64	Group
2021	Doubles W	-	-	-	2x	-	1x	-	-
2021	Doubles X	-	-	2x	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Doubles W	-	-	1x	2x	2x	2x	-	-
2020	Doubles X	1x	-	2x	1x	3x	-	-	-
2019	Doubles W	1x	1x	-	1x	1x	12x	-	-
2019	Doubles X	-	1x	2x	5x	4x	5x	-	-
2018	Doubles W	-	-	1x	3x	2x	8x	-	-
2018	Doubles X	4x	2x	-	2x	3x	2x	-	-
2017	Doubles W	-	-	-	1x	3x	2x	-	-
2017	Doubles X	1x	-	1x	-	1x	1x	-	-

BWF World Superseries - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32
2017	Doubles W	-	-	-	-	1x	3x
2017	Doubles X	-	-	-	-	2x	2x

World Tour & World Superseries - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Bangkok, THA
1	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Orleans, FRA
1	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Glasgow, GBR
1	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Saarbrucken, GER
1	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Almere, NED
1	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Calgary, AB, CAN
1	2017	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Almere, NED
2	2019	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Lucknow, IND
2	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Saarbrucken, GER
2	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Barcelona, ESP
2	2018	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Basel, SUI

TOTAL BWF Sudirman Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Group 1	Mixed Team	2019	Nanning, CHN

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Rara (badmintonengland.co.uk, 29 Mar 2016)

Athlete

Coaching, Sport Studies - Leeds Metropolitan University, Great Britain

Partner Marcus Ellis

English

Anthony Clark [national, personal], GBR

Right (bwfbadminton.com, 15 Mar 2020)

Her partner Marcus Ellis has represented Great Britain in badminton, and won bronze in men's doubles at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The pair have also competed together in mixed doubles, winning gold at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (Instagram profile, 14 Sep 2020; Marcus Ellis Instagram profile, 12 Jun 2020; skysports.com, 18 Aug 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 30 Sep 2020)

She began playing badminton at age seven, and competitively at age 13. (badmintonengland.co.uk, 15 Mar 2020, 29 Mar 2016)

Her family played at Border Badminton Club in Carlisle, England. "I was seven when I started playing. My mother and father took me when I was a little kid. The club was pretty much my family, my aunts and uncles. I think at first my mum wanted to disown me as I couldn't hit the shuttlecock. She was like, 'You're not my child'. It was just a family thing and I really enjoyed it. I didn't do much of it at first, but I wanted to work hard every time I did do it, so that's how it really grew for me." (badmintonengland.co.uk, 29 Mar 2016; ptmagazine.co.uk, 24 Feb 2016)

To win medals at the Olympic Games and world championships. (badmintonengland.co.uk, 15 Mar 2020)

Winning the mixed doubles event at the 2020 Thailand Masters in Bangkok. "Having previously lost in three Super 300 finals, it feels great to finally get over the line. To win the competition in Asia, when the standard was especially high, means a lot." (newsandstar.co.uk, 31 Jan 2020)

British rower Katherine Grainger. (bwfbadminton.org, 28 Apr 2016)

Her parents. (bwfbadminton.org, 28 Apr 2016)

She was named Carlisle Sports Personality of the Year for 2013. (badmintonengland.co.uk, 22 Apr 2014; cumbriacrack.com, 01 Dec 2013; cumberlandnews.co.uk, 28 Oct 2013)

She won the Cumbria Sports Personality of the Year award in 2012 and 2013. (badmintonengland.co.uk, 22 Apr 2014; badmintonengland.co.uk, 27 Nov 2012)