Iikka Heino (born 9 January 1995) is a Finnish

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. In 2011, he won the gold medal at the European U17 Championships in the mixed doubles event with Mathilda Lindholm. In 2013, he became the runner-up of

Estonian International The Estonian International in badminton is an international open held in Estonia since 2004 and is thereby one of the most recent international badminton tournaments in the world. The tournament is now classified as BWF International Series (for ...

in men's doubles event. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel. In 2017, he was a runner-up of the

tournament in the men's doubles event partnered with Henri Aarnio.

Personal life

Iikka Heino brother,

Eetu Heino Eetu Antti Oskari Heino (born 5 September 1988) is a Finnish badminton player. He started playing badminton at his school in Pargas, then in 2006, he joined the Finnish national badminton team. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men' ...

, is also a professional badminton players. He started to playing badminton at the age of six in Paraisten, and entered the national team in 2011. To improve his badminton, Iika Heino lives and trains in Holbæk, Denmark.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 runners-up)

''Men's 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

References

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* 1995 births Living people People from Pargas Finnish male badminton players Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Sportspeople from Southwest Finland 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-badminton-bio-stub