Kalle Koljonen (born 26 February 1994) 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 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in

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. He won his first international title at the 2015

Hungarian International The Hungarian International in badminton is an international open held in Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine ...

. Koljonen became first ever badminton player from his country to medal at the

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

in 2021.

Achievements

European Championships

''Men's singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 8 runners-up)

''Men's singles'' :

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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* 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Helsinki Finnish male badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Finland 21st-century Finnish people European Games competitors for Finland Badminton players at the 2023 European Games {{Finland-badminton-bio-stub