Career
Hansen won the gold medal at the 1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Per Walsoe and the silver medal in singles in the same tournament. He was a singles silver medalist again at the European Championships in 1976. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played in four consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns for Denmark, ('66-'67, '69-'70, '72-'73, '75-'76), but never overtook his contemporary, Svend Pri, as Denmark's leading player of that era. His finest moment in badminton probably came in Denmark's narrow (4-5) 1970 Thomas Cup semi-final loss to defending champion Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur when he defeated both Tan Aik Huang and Punch Gunalan in straight games.
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