U. Vimal Kumar 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 . He won the Indian National title consecutively for two years, 1988 and 1989. He also served as Chief National Coach of India. He is the Co Founder, Director and Chief Coach in Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy. He was awarded the

Dronacharya Award The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is sports coaching honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Drona, often referred as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a ch ...

in 2019. He was the bronze medalist in badminton at the 1986 Asian Games in the Men's team event.

Career

During his career he won

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in 1983 & 1984 and Welsh International Open in 1988 & 1991. Vimal also represented India at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and was ranked within the top 20 in the world. He was the National chief coach of the Indian badminton squad for several years. He quit the post in 2006 to concentrate on coaching youngsters at the

Prakash Padukone Prakash Padukone (born 10 June 1955) is a former Indian badminton player. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1972 ...

Badminton Academy. Now, he is currently coaching star player

Saina Nehwal Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 ...

in Bangalore.He also coaches Parupalli Kashyap. Malayalam film actor

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is his nephew.

Achievements

IBF International

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* Indian male badminton players Indian national badminton champions Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of India Malayali people Racket sportspeople from Kerala Living people Asian Games medalists in badminton Badminton players at the 1986 Asian Games Badminton players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Asian Games bronze medalists for India Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Recipients of the Dronacharya Award Commonwealth Games competitors for India 1962 births {{India-badminton-bio-stub