Rachael Darragh

Rachael Darragh

Badminton

BIOGRAPHY

A niece of three-time Olympian Chloe Magee, Rachael moved to Badminton Ireland’s High Performance centre at 17 and actually flew to her first European Games in Baku in 2015 the day after completing her Leaving Cert.

During the previous Olympic cycle Rachael was juggling doubles & singles but since concentrating on the latter since 2023 she has jumped almost 100 places in the world rankings and broke into top 60 last Winter.

In 2022 she made the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Games and the last 16 of the European Championships. In 2023 she moved up a level from the international challenge series to compete at World Tour Super 100/300 level. She made the last 32 of the 2023 World Championships and her career highlight so far was making the quarter-finals of the Abu Dhabi Masters last October which helped her clinch the 38th Olympic

Gender

Female

Discipline

Women's Singles

Date Of Birth

September 24, 1997

Hometown

Raphoe, Co Donegal

Games

Paris 2024

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