Jaspar Yu Woon Chai (born November 14, 1988) is a Bruneian badminton player. He achieved a career high ranking of 199 in the men's singles discipline. It was announced in May 2016 that he was awarded the tripartite commission to compete in the men's singles event at the

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, Brazil. Yu was the first badminton athlete from Brunei to compete at the Olympics.

Career

Jaspar has made a few Superseries appearances at the international stage. In 2019, alongside his partner Ahmad Mahyuddin Haji Abas, they qualified to the main draw of the

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after winning the group tie in group B but lost to the eventual bronze medalists

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and

Kim Won-ho Kim Won-ho (Hangul: 김원호; born 2 June 1999) is a South Korean badminton player. Kim who was educated at the Maewon High School, competed at the 2016 Asian Junior Championships, and won the silver medals in the mixed doubles and team event. ...

in the first round. He made his debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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