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Representing  Scotland
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1966 Kingston | Mixed doubles |
| European Championships | ||
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1968 Bochum | Men's doubles |
Robert S. McCoig (1937–1998) was a Scottish badminton player who won numerous national and international titles from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s.
McCoig captured a record fifteen Scottish National singles titles, as well as several Scottish Open singles titles, his greatest international victories came in doubles. He was especially successful in three North American forays which yielded a pair of U.S. Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1965), a pair of Canadian Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1969), and the mixed doubles title of each nation in 1965. With Muriel Woodcock (née Ferguson) McCoig was runner-up in mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships in 1968. He represented Scotland in seven consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns from 1957 to 1976.
References
- Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England (Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 157.
- Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 137,138,313,314.
- Scheele, 168.
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