DANES TAKE MIXED DOUBLES TITLE April 19,1996 (D.Shuttlenws) - Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen added a second title to Denmark's earlier European badminton championships team event gold medal when they won the mixed doubles final over the top-seeded English pair of Simon Archer and Julie Bradbury in Herning, Denmark. The second-seeded Danes and the English duo had a battle royale in the first game, exchanging points even deep into a five-point tie-breaker before the calculated play of Sogaard and Olsen overcame Archer and Bradbury. The Danes won the first 18-16. The second game belonged completely to the home-standing Sogaard-Olsen tandem as Archer and Bradbury were tired and disheartened after their fruitless first game efforts. Sogaard and Olsen pulled away quickly and won the game and the European mixed doubles championship 15-2. COPYRIGHT 1996 by D.Shuttlenws@genie.com. PERMISSION GIVEN to redistribute electronically in whole or in part.