Chetan Baboor (April 22, 1974) is an Indian international

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champion and winner of the

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for 1997 - an award recognizing outstanding achievement in sports in India. He belongs to the Babbur Kamme community of Holenarasipura,

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. Chetan has won four national titles and double golds in Commonwealth Championships. He also competed at the three Olympic Games. He was born in

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and has represented

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and Petroleum Sports Control Board teams in

as well as BTK Enig in

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. Apart from his sporting achievements, he has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering and a

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from

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. He stopped playing pro tour in 2001 (at the age of 27) in order to pursue an

from Thunderbird University and has been working in Business/Management consulting since. He had a career best world ranking of 68 in 1999 and played his last big event (World Championships) in 2004. He currently resides in

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and

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, and is currently a presenter for the

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, presenting for the TV channel

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. He is currently working at Axtria Inc. as a principal.

References

Indian male table tennis players Recipients of the Arjuna Award Sportspeople from Lucknow Living people Racket sportspeople from Uttar Pradesh Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India 1974 births Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Olympic table tennis players for India Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Indian people 21st-century Indian people Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{India-tabletennis-bio-stub