Nanna Vainio

Nanna Vainio (born 29 May 1991)^[1] is a right handed Finnish badminton player who lives in Espoo in Finland. Since 2009 she has been the Finnish singles champion several times.

Nanna Vainio
Personal information
Country	Finland
Born	(1991-05-02) 2 May 1991 (age 34) Ekenäs, Finland
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Career record	109 wins, 124 losses
Highest ranking	56 (3 November 2016)

Career

Vainio was born on Ekenäs in 1991. She first competed internationally in Latvia when she was 14 and she has been in the national team since 2008.^[2] She graduated from high school in Espoo Mattlidens gymnasium in 2010, after which she studied for a degree in information management and business administration at Loughborough University in England.^[3] In 2013, she moved to Copenhagen, where she studied for a master's degree and was trained by Anu Nieminen at the Copenhagen Badminton Center. She graduated in 2015 and has since been training again in Finland.^[4]

Vainio has been ranked as 56th in the world and she represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She lost in the first round of the tournament to the Spanish player Carolina Marín^[1] who has been ranked number one in the world.^[5]

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Slovenian International	Carola Bott	13–21, 10–21	Runner-up
2015	Iceland International	Mette Poulsen	11–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2015	Mauritius International	Airi Mikkelä	21–16, 21–11	Winner
2015	Morocco International	Lianne Tan	21–15, 22–24, 8–21	Runner-up
2016	Iceland International	Julie Dawal Jakobsen	17–21, 6–21	Runner-up
2016	Peru International	Airi Mikkelä	13–21, 17–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament