| Mischa Ginns | |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1981 |
Mischa Ginns (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian para-badminton player.[1] She was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics but withdrew just prior to the competition due to illness.[2] [3]
Ginns was born in South Africa on 11 May 1981 and migrated to Australia from South Africa in 2008 to take up a job in accountancy. In April 2012, she ruptured her cervical spinal in a rowing competition and spinal surgery complications left her hospitalised for four years.[4] She has put on hold her chartered accountancy career to focus on badminton.
Ginns is classified as WH2. She took up Para-badminton after attending a come-and-try day in 2022. At the 2022 Oceania Para-Badminton Championships she won three gold medals - WH2 women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. At the 2024 BWF Para Badminton World Championships, she advanced to the Women's Singles WH2 Quarterfinals[5] In 2024, she is ranked 12th in Women's WH2 world singles rankings.[6] She was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics but withdrew just prior to the competition due to illness.
She is a member of Westside Badminton in Melbourne and a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.[7]
In 2022, she was named a finalist in the Sportsperson of the Year - Community at the Victorian Disability Sport and Recreation Awards.[8]