Kamilla Rytter Juhl (born 23 November 1983) is a retired Danish badminton player. Juhl is an Olympic silver medalist, World Championship gold medalist and seven times European champion as well.^[1][2]

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Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Personal information
Country	Denmark
Born	(1983-11-23) 23 November 1983 (age 40) Skagen, Denmark
Residence	Valby, Denmark
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Retired	11 March 2019
Handedness	Left
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	2 (WD 10 May 2018) 1 (XD 6 January 2011)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Denmark Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's doubles World Championships 2009 Hyderabad Mixed doubles 2015 Jakarta Women's doubles 2013 Guangzhou Women's doubles 2017 Glasgow Women's doubles Sudirman Cup 2011 Qingdao Mixed team 2005 Beijing Mixed team 2013 Kuala Lumpur Mixed team European Championships 2006 Den Bosch Mixed doubles 2008 Herning Women's doubles 2010 Manchester Mixed doubles 2012 Karlskrona Women's doubles 2014 Kazan Women's doubles 2016 La Roche-sur-Yon Women's doubles 2017 Kolding Women's doubles 2014 Kazan Mixed doubles 2006 Den Bosch Women's doubles 2012 Karlskrona Mixed doubles European Mixed Team Championships 2015 Leuven Mixed team 2017 Lubin Mixed team 2013 Moscow Mixed team European Women's Team Championships 2008 Almere Women's team 2010 Warsaw Women's team 2014 Basel Women's team 2016 Kazan Women's team 2018 Kazan Women's team 2012 Amsterdam Women's team
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Rytter Juhl played as a left-handed doubles specialist.

Juhl enjoyed a successful mixed doubles career with Thomas Laybourn, winning the 2009 BWF World Championships and two European titles in 2006 and 2010. The pair also won the BWF World Superseries Finals in 2008, and won a total of two Superseries titles.

After Laybourn's retirement, Rytter Juhl played mixed doubles with Mads Pieler Kolding, and the pair came runner-up in the 2014 European Championships, losing out to their Danish teammates Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer Nielsen in the final.

In the women's doubles, Juhl initially partnered with Lena Frier Kristiansen, and the pair reached 8th on the world rankings, won a bronze and a gold medal at the European Championships, and reached the World Superseries Finals in 2009.

From 2010 to 2018, Rytter Juhl was paired with Christinna Pedersen. While both athletes also focussed on competing with their respective partners in mixed doubles, in 2016 Juhl changed to competing exclusively in women's doubles. The pair won a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships, and a bronze medal at the 2013 Guangzhou World Championship and at the 2017 BWF World Championships. Rytter Juhl and Pedersen won a total of four European women's doubles titles, one World Superseries Final and five Superseries titles, and had a career highest world ranking of 2nd. Having won seven European titles in total, Rytter Juhl is the most successful Danish player in European Championship history.^[3] The pair also won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and, in doing so, became the first Europeans to ever compete in an Olympic women's doubles final.

Rytter Juhl represented Skovshoved in the Danish Badminton League and lives in Copenhagen, where she trained with the national team. Off the badminton court, Rytter Juhl has a degree in Sport Management.

She announced her retirement in July 2018, due to her being pregnant,^[4][2] and officially announced her retirement from the BWF World Tour in March 2019 together with Pedersen. The duo journey in badminton will continue in the national tournament.^[5]

Rytter Juhl is openly lesbian. She gave birth to a daughter named Molly in January 2019.

Rytter Juhl and Christinna Pedersen's autobiography, "Det Unikke Makkerskab" (loosely translated: "The Unique Partnership"), written with support from journalist Rasmus M. Bech, was released in Denmark in October 2017. In the book, the couple tell not only of their lives as international badminton players, but of their life together off court; having been a couple since 2009. ^[6]

Women's doubles results with Christinna Pedersen against Super Series finalists, Worlds Semi-finalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists, as well as all Olympic opponents.^[11]