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Mar 27, 1957 Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom 67 years old
badminton player
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About Billy Gilliland
- Billy Gilliland (born 1957) is a former badminton player from Scotland who excelled from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s.
- Although he won the Scottish national singles title in 1979, the tall, angular Gilliland was a doubles specialist at the international level with his greatest success coming in mixed doubles.
- Gilliland won mixed doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships with England's Nora Perry in 1985.
- He had previously reached the All-England final in both men's doubles and mixed doubles in 1982.
- He was a mixed doubles bronze medalist at the 1977 IBF World Championships with Joanna Flockhart.
- Though he won numerous tournaments abroad, perhaps Gilliland's most impressive badminton accomplishment was sharing twelve consecutive Scottish national mixed doubles titles equally with two partners, between 1976 and 1987.
- With regular partner Dan Travers, he won nine Scottish national men's doubles titles during that period, and men's doubles at the Commonwealth Games in 1986.
- He now coaches badminton in a badminton academy.
