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Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic Champion , two-time World Champion , and four-time European Champion . He has held the No. 1 BWF World Ranking in men's singles for a total of 183 weeks (as of August 2024), and he is the current world No. 2. [ 2 ]
The men's singles badminton tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 24 July to 2 August 2021 at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza at Tokyo. A total of 41 players from 36 nations actually competed at the tournament. Viktor Axelsen of Denmark won his first Olympic gold, defeating defending Olympic champion Chen Long from China.
Lee–Lin rivalry. The Lee–Lin rivalry was a rivalry between two professional badminton players, Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan. It is considered among the greatest rivalries in badminton history. [1][2] Of their 40 meetings, Lin won the head to head battle by 28–12. They met in the final 22 times, semi-finals 15 times, including twice each in ...
She is in a relationship with Viktor Axelsen. [2] Natalia Koch Rohde gave birth to a first baby girl named Vega Rohde Axelsen on 15 October 2020. [3] On 7 October 2022 she gave birth to her second baby girl named Aya Rohde Axelsen. [4] Her father Henrik Rohde, who was headcoach of the winning Skovshoved team in the Danish league in 2017, is ...
The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Summer Olympic Games, [ 1 ] as well as BWF World Tour tournaments. [ 2 ]
The men's singles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 27 July to 5 August 2024 at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena in Paris. [1] A total of 41 players from 36 nations competed at the tournament. Danish player Viktor Axelsen was the defending Olympic champion. He retained his Olympic title, only the second player in ...
Lakshya Sen (born 16 August 2001) is an Indian badminton player. [3] He's a former World Junior No. 1. Sen is a bronze medalist at the World Championships, a gold medalist at the Thomas Cup, a silver medalist at the Asian Games and a gold and silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games. [4] He has also won bronze medals at the Asia Team and Asia ...
The first to accomplish this was Prakash Padukone who won in the very first Open era edition in 1980, followed by Morten Frost in 1986 and 1987, Yang Yang in 1989, Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen in 1996, Sun Jun in 1998, Pullela Gopichand in 2001, Muhammad Hafiz Hashim in 2003, Chen Jin in 2008, Lin Dan in 2009 and 2012 and Lee Chong Wei in 2011. Liem ...