Erin Walklate

Badminton

Age

Olympic History

Beijing 2008

Career Events

Badminton Women's Singles

Erin's Story

Twenty-two-year-old Erin Carroll had been playing badminton for 10 years when she made her Olympic debut in 2008. Carroll made the round of 32 in the ladies singles at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She received a place in the 2008 Australian Olympic Team after a reallocation of quota places by the World Badminton Federation. She lost her opening match in Beijing.

Carroll also competed at the 2003 Australian Youth Olympic Festival, winning two gold medals and one silver medal.

Olympic Results

The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present.

We celebrate and honour all of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Olympians.

The Australian Olympic Committee is committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society and sport.