Roelof Jakobus Dednam (born 21 August 1985) is a male

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 p ...

player from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. Dednam played

badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics Badminton competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from 9 August to 17 August at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium. Qualification The qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics began from May 2007 until April 2008. ...

in men's doubles with

Chris Dednam Christoffel Cornelius Dednam (born 8 August 1983) is a badminton player from South Africa. Dednam was the gold medallists at the 2003 All-Africa Games in the mixed doubles event, and in 2007 in the men's doubles event. He competed at the 2004, ...

, losing in the round of 16 to

Howard Bach Howard Bach (born February 22, 1979) is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in the men's doubles with Tony Gunawan. Early life He was born in Vietnam, Howard Bach came to the U.S ...

and

Bob Malaythong Khan "Bob" Malaythong (born 10 April 1981 in Vientiane, Laos) is an Americans, American badminton player. He qualified for the U.S. badminton team as a doubles competitor at the Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics. Malayt ...

of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

Achievements

All Africa Games

''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

African Championships

''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series tournament

References

External links

* * * * 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Bloemfontein South African male badminton players Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of South Africa Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games African Games gold medalists for South Africa African Games silver medalists for South Africa African Games bronze medalists for South Africa African Games medalists in badminton {{SouthAfrica-badminton-bio-stub