Career
When he retired from serious competition, he set up his own badminton company called Talbot Torro Badminton. World Championships 1972 Summer Olympics Talbot competed in badminton at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where badminton was played as a demonstration sport. In men"s doubles he and Elliot Stuart, his former schoolfellow in Newcastle upon Tyne, were defeated in the semifinals by Ade Chandra and Christian Hadinata 15-8, 15-12.
Post-Badminton Towards the latter stages of his badminton career Derek ran a sports shop, which specialised in racket sports, with ex-South African badminton internationalist Eddie Allen, and local man Neil Woodward, in Newcastle.
They sold their own Vicourt badminton rackets. In recent years Derek left his more traditional career behind and ultimately set up the Natural Patient ( )homeopathic centre in Ibiza.
