Thom Mark Gicquel (born 12 January 1999) is a French
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. Born in
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...
, he started playing badminton at aged six in his parents club.
Gicquel made his debut in the international senior tournament at the 2015
Riga International in Latvia, finished as the men's doubles runner-up partnered with
Thomas Baures
Thomas Jackie Baures (born 12 January 1998) is a French badminton player. Baures was part of the France team who won the mixed team competition at the 2017 European Junior Badminton Championships
The 2017 European Junior Badminton Championships ...
.
He was part of the national junior team that won the bronze medal at the
2015 European Junior Championships, and made it to the gold medal in
2017
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. He also won the gold medal in the boys' doubles event with
Toma Junior Popov
Toma Junior Popov (born 29 September 1998) is a French badminton player. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys' singles event. Popov made history as the first non-Danish male player to win a European Juni ...
. At the
2018 European Men's Team Championships, he helped the team claim the bronze medal. Teamed-up with
Bastian Kersaudy
Bastian Kersaudy (born 9 June 1994) is a French badminton player from the Chambly Oise club. He has won some international tournament includes, the 2014 Brazil International in the men's doubles event partnered with Gaetan Mittelheisser, the 201 ...
, they clinched the men's doubles gold at the
2018 Mediterranean Games
The 2018 Mediterranean Games ( es, Juegos Mediterráneos de 2018), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games ( es, XVIII Juegos Mediterráneos) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 Jun ...
. He captured a bronze medal at the
2019 European Games
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in the mixed doubles event with
Delphine Delrue. Gicquel and Delrue reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World ranking in 9 March 2021. He competed at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
.
Achievements
European Games
''Mixed doubles''
European Championships
''Mixed doubles''
Mediterranean Games
''Men's doubles''
European Junior Championships
''Boys' doubles''
BWF World Tour (2 titles, 4 runners-up)
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
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(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.
''Mixed doubles''
BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 5 runners-up)
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed 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.
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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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1999 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tours, France
French male badminton players
Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of France
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in badminton
Badminton players at the 2019 European Games
European Games bronze medalists for France
European Games medalists in badminton
21st-century French people