Kiran George (born 11 February 2000) is an Indian

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 who trains at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy. He won the

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title. He also competed in the 2020 Thomas Cup and

2022 Badminton Asia Team Championships The 2022 Badminton Asia Team Championships (also known as the 2022 Selangor Badminton Asia Team Championship) was held at the Setia City Convention Centre in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, from 15 to 20 February 2022. This championships was organ ...

Career

2021–22

In 2021, Kiran George's first tournament played was the

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where lost to

Brice Leverdez Brice Leverdez (born 9 April 1986) is a French badminton player. He was a champion at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, won a silver medal at the 2015 European Games, and a bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships. Career Leverdez started p ...

in the 3rd round. In September, Kiran played in the

where he won the tournament beating

Jason Teh Jason Teh Jia Heng (; born 25 August 2000) is a Singaporean badminton player. He won a bronze medal for Singapore as part of the team at the 2022 Asia Team Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games, as well at the 2019, 2021, and the 2023 SEA Ga ...

in the finals winning his first ever tournament since the

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in 2019. He also reached the semis of the

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but lost to

Siril Verma Siril Verma (born 25 December 1999) is an Indian badminton player. He was the silver medalist at the 2015 World Junior Championships. He reached a career high of world no. 1 of the world junior ranking in January 2016. Verma was the gold medal ...

. In 2022, Kiran started the year by playing in 3 BWF world tour tournaments including the

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Which he lost the first round and the Syed Modi International which he also lost the first round and the

Odisha Open The Odisha Open is an annual badminton tournament held in India. The tournament is a part of the BWF World Tour tournaments and is leveled in BWF Tour Super 100. The inaugural edition was held in 2022 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cut ...

which he won the title beating

Priyanshu Rajawat Priyanshu Rajawat (born 1 February 2002) is an Indian 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 "s ...

to win his first ever

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title. He competed at the

but was eliminated at the group stage. First he lost to Korean

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by the score of 18-21 and 14-21 then he lost to Hong Kong's Chan Yin Chak in the score of 13-21,21-17 and 9-21 and finally

Ikhsan Rumbay Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel Rumbay (born 15 January 2000) is an Indonesian badminton player, who also plays for the PB Djarum club in national events. He also attended Special Sports School Ragunan. Career Rumbay started his senior tournament at t ...

in the score of 13-21, 21-17 and 10-21.

Achievements

BWF World Tour (2 titles)

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 Tour is 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. ''Men's singles''

BWF International (3 titles, 1 runner-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 :

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tournament

Performance timeline

National team

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:George, Kiran 2000 births Living people Sportspeople from Kochi Racket sportspeople from Kerala Indian male badminton players