Noriko Nakayama (nee Noriko Takagi) is a former Japanese badminton player who won numerous Japanese national and major international titles from the mid 1960's to the early 1970's. Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles or two opposing pairs (doubles who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court The Japanese National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best Badminton players in Japan. She claimed seven of these at the Danish Open, two in singles and five in women's doubles. The Denmark Open, or formerly known as Danish Open, is an annual Badminton tournament held in Denmark and organized by Danmarks Badminton Forbund At the prestigious All-England Championships she shared the women's doubles title with Hiroe Yuki in 1971, and in 1972 she won the All-England women's singles title having previously lost twice in the finals ^[1]. The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious Badminton tournaments now, is a retired female Badminton player of Japan who won numerous major international titles from the late 1960's to the late 1970's She also won the women's singles event at the Olympic Games Demonstration in 1972. Badminton was one of two Demonstration sports at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Perhaps Mrs Nakayama's most impressive badminton, however, came in Uber Cup (women's international team) competition. The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Team Championships for Women, is a major international Badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams Playing in four successive campaigns between 1965 and 1975 she was unbeaten in singles, thus leading the way to three world team titles for Japan^[2].

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