{{short description|English squash player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox squash player | name = Suzanne Horner<br>(née Burgess) | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|2|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England | height = | weight = | highest_ranking = No. 2 | date_of_highest_ranking = September 1994 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's squash }} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalBronze | 1994 Saint Peter Port | Singles }} {{MedalBronze | 1998 Stuttgart | Singles }} {{MedalCompetition | World Team Championships }} {{MedalGold | 1989 Warmond | Team }} {{MedalGold | 1990 Sydney | Team }} {{MedalSilver | 1994 Saint Peter Port | Team }} {{MedalSilver | 1996 Petaling Jaya | Team }} {{MedalSilver | 1998 Stuttgart | Team }} {{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalSilver | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | Mixed doubles }} {{MedalCompetition | European Team Championships}} {{MedalGold | 1987 Vienna | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1989 Helsinki | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1993 Aix-en-Provence | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1994 Zoetermeer | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1996 Amsterdam | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1999 Linz | Team}} }}
'''Suzanne Horner''' (née '''Burgess''', born 23 February 1963)<ref>[http://www.horizonsoftware.net/entry/wispa/ranking.php?player=T00015&page=biog Profile at WISPA] accessed August 8, 2007</ref> is an English former professional squash player.
== Biography == Horner was runner-up at the British Open in 1990 and 1993. In 1994, she captured the US Open title and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2. She won the British National Squash Championships in 1994 and 1996.<ref>[http://new.nationalsquashchamps.co.uk/2005/history.htm National Squash Championships History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930132601/http://new.nationalsquashchamps.co.uk/2005/history.htm |date=2007-09-30 }} accessed August 8, 2007</ref> She was a silver Commonwealth medallist for the 1998 England team<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005104/19980731/139/0017 |title=Parke books place in squash team |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=31 July 1998 |page=17 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=15 April 2026}}</ref> at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when she competed with Simon Parke in the mixed doubles competition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/court.htm#SQUASH |title=Commonwealth Games medallists - Court and Table Sports |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=15 April 2026}}</ref>
Her greatest successes were being part of the successful England team that won the 1989 Women's World Team Squash Championships in Warmond, Netherlands and the 1990 Women's World Team Squash Championships in Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsquash.org/ws/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Womens-Team-Open1.pdf |title=Women's World Team Championships |publisher=worldsquash.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001550/http://www.worldsquash.org/ws/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Womens-Team-Open1.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref>
Horner won six gold medals for the England women's national squash team at the European Squash Team Championships, one in 1987 under her maiden name of Burgess, and five more in 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/292 |title=European Team Squash Championships |website=InterSportStats |access-date=6 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/history/100/mens/european-team-championship |title=Men's European Team Championship: Event History (53 events) |website=Squash Info |access-date=6 June 2025}}</ref>
She won the World Over-35 Championship in 1999.<ref>[http://www.squashpics.com/topwomen/suzanne_horner.htm Profile at Squashpics.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070226114351/http://www.squashpics.com/topwomen/suzanne_horner.htm |date=2007-02-26 }} accessed August 8, 2007</ref>
==World Team Championships== ===Finals: 5 (2 title, 3 runner-up)===
{| class="sortable wikitable" !width="100"| Outcome !width="350"| Year !width="200"| Location !width="150"| Opponent in the final !width="150"| Score in the final |- | bgcolor="98FB98"|Winner || 1989 Women's World Team Squash Championships || Warmond, Netherlands || {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || 3-0 |- | bgcolor="98FB98"|Winner || 1990 Women's World Team Squash Championships || Sydney, Australia || {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || 2-1 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1994 Women's World Team Squash Championships || Saint Peter Port, Guernsey || {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || 3-0 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1996 Women's World Team Squash Championships || Petaling Jaya, Malaysia || {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || 2-1 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1998 Women's World Team Squash Championships || Stuttgart, Germany || {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || 3-0 |}
==See also== * Official Women's Squash World Ranking
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Squash Info}}
{{World Series squash women's champions}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Horner, Suzanne}} Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:English female squash players Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in squash Category:Squash players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Sportspeople from Wakefield Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:20th-century English sportswomen