Dorothy Cunningham

Dorothy Cunningham née Dorothy Haslam (born c.1949) is a former international badminton player from Northern Ireland who competed at two Commonwealth Games and was a four-time champion of Ireland.

Biography Born Dorothy Haslam, she represented Ulster at the provincial level and all-Ireland at the international level. Haslam made her Irish debut on 21 November 1968.

She married a fellow badminton player called Frank Cunningham and played under her married name thereafter and in 1972 switched clubs from Malone to St. Judes. Cunningham won the 1976 Ulster Open and 1978 Irish Open.

Although primarily a singles player, she also played doubles and partners included John Scott, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she competed in the three events.

Cunningham represented the Northern Irish team again at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, where she competed in the four events.

She was a four-times Irish champion at the Irish National Badminton Championships, winning the singles in 1977, doubles in 1975 and 1976 and mixed doubles in 1977.

Cunningham also represented Ulster at tennis.