Alina Ilgizarovna Davletova (russian: Алина Ильгизаровна Давлетова; born 17 July 1998) is a Russian

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player. She won the mixed doubles title at the European Junior Championships in

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and at the European Championships in

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Career

Davletova who was born in

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, started to playing badminton at aged nine. She joined the

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in 2013, and made a debut in 2014. She crowned as mixed doubles champion at the 2016 Bulgaria International tournament, the first senior international title in her career. Davletova who still in the junior age group, was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the 2017 European Junior Championships partnered with

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, made them as the first Russian player to win that category. At the same year, she and Alimov also won the bronze medal at the

2017 Summer Universiade The 2017 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade ( zh, t=第二十九屆夏季世界大學運動會, p=Dì èrshíjiǔ jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxué yùndònghuì) and commonly called Taipei 2017 ( zh, t=台北2 ...

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. At the 2019 Minsk European Games, she clinched the bronze medal in the women's doubles event partnered with Ekaterina Bolotova. Davletova and Alimov became the first Russians winning the

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in mixed doubles, doing so in

. In January 2022, Davletova and

had to withdraw from the

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mixed doubles semifinals match after Alimov was tested positive of

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Achievements

European Games

''Women's doubles''

European Championships

''Mixed doubles''

Summer Universiade

''Mixed doubles''

European Junior Championships

''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Tour (1 title)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

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(BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Mixed doubles''

BWF Grand Prix (1 runner-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (12 titles, 4 runners-up)

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davletova, Alina 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Ufa Russian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2019 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Russia European Games medalists in badminton Universiade bronze medalists for Russia Universiade medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade 21st-century Russian women