Yoo Yeon-seong (; born 19 August 1986) is a South Korean professional
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 specializes in doubles events and was ranked as high as No. 2 worldwide with his former partner,
Ko Sung-hyun
Ko Sung-hyun (Hangul: 고성현; ; born 21 May 1987) is a South Korean badminton player affiliated with Gimcheon City Hall. He is a former world number 1 both in the men's and mixed doubles. Ko is a BWF World Champion, two time Badminton Asian ...
. The two also competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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. For a long time he played mixed doubles with
Kim Min-jung, but later switched partners to play with
Jang Ye-na
Chang Ye-na (; ; born 13 December 1989) is a South Korean badminton player who specializes in doubles. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won gold medals at the 2013 Kazan Universiade in the mixed team and w ...
, starting in 2011. Starting in late 2013, his men's doubles partner was
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae (Hangul: 이용대; Hanja: 李龍大; ; born 11 September 1988) is a professional badminton player from South Korea who had been successful in both men's and mixed doubles. He reached world number 1 ranking with 4 different partners, ...
. Together, they reached a world ranking of No.1 in August 2014.
Yoo was among 4 players reported to be retiring and hanging up his national team jersey after the
Rio Olympics
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but during the
Korea Open that September, it was revealed that he would be continuing to play on the national team after his partner Lee Yong-dae retired. Yoo said that he wants to spend more time with his family. After he and Lee won the Korea Open title, Yoo played an additional 9 international ranking events but his name was finally removed from the Korean national team list a few weeks after the
2017 Singapore Open.
Achievements
BWF World Championships
''Men's doubles''
Asian Games
''Men's doubles''
Asia Championships
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
Summer Universiade
''Mixed doubles''
World Junior Championships
''Boys' doubles''
Asian Junior Championships
''Boys' doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
BWF Superseries (19 titles, 10 runners-up)
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in
2007
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, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by
Badminton World Federation
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(BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as
Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
:
BWF Superseries Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
tournament
:
BWF Superseries Premier tournament
:
BWF Superseries
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Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, ...
tournament
BWF Grand Prix (12 titles, 5 runners-up)
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. It is a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
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(BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
:
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
:
BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 6 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.
...
tournament
:
BWF International Series
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tournament
Record against selected opponents
Men's doubles results with
Ko Sung-hyun
Ko Sung-hyun (Hangul: 고성현; ; born 21 May 1987) is a South Korean badminton player affiliated with Gimcheon City Hall. He is a former world number 1 both in the men's and mixed doubles. Ko is a BWF World Champion, two time Badminton Asian ...
against Super Series finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists.
*
Cai Yun
Cai Yun (born 19 January 1980) is a former professional badminton player representing China. He is the 2012 London Olympic gold medallist and a four-time World Champion in men's doubles. He is regarded as one of the greatest men's doubles player ...
&
Fu Haifeng
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Sport career
Combining Fu Haifeng's impressive power with his regular partner Cai Yun's impressive s ...
1–7
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Chai Biao
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Guo Zhendong
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Career
A men's ...
1-2
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Guo Zhendong
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Career
A men's ...
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Xu Chen
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2–0
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Fang Chieh-min
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Lee Sheng-mu
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Career
Lee Sheng-mu's elite career began in the 2 ...
3–1
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Mathias Boe
Mathias Boe (born 11 July 1980) is a badminton player from Denmark. He was the gold medalist at the 2015 European Games, two time European champions winning in 2012 and 2017, and the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He joined the Den ...
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Carsten Mogensen
Carsten Mogensen (born 24 July 1983) is a former badminton player from Denmark. He was the gold medalist at the 2015 European Games, two time European champions winning in 2012 and 2017, and the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Moge ...
0–6
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Lars Påske &
Jonas Rasmussen
Jonas Rasmussen (born 28 October 1977 in Aarhus) is a retired badminton player from Denmark.
Career
With his men's doubles partner Lars Paaske he won the 2003 IBF World Championships defeating Indonesian pair Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto ...
1–1
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Jonas Rasmussen
Jonas Rasmussen (born 28 October 1977 in Aarhus) is a retired badminton player from Denmark.
Career
With his men's doubles partner Lars Paaske he won the 2003 IBF World Championships defeating Indonesian pair Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto ...
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Mads Conrad-Petersen 1–0
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Mohammad Ahsan
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Bona Septano
Bona Septano (born 22 September 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player. He currently works as pilot in Indonesian airlines.
Bona Septano concentrates on men's doubles with Mohammad Ahsan. They have competed successfully on the internat ...
5–1
*
Alvent Yulianto Chandra &
Hendra Aprida Gunawan
Hendra Aprida Gunawan (born 6 April 1982) is a badminton player from Indonesia who affiliated with the SGS PLN Bandung.
Career
Gunawan competes in men's doubles with Joko Riyadi. They were bronze medalists at the 2005 Asian Badminton Champion ...
4–1
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Markis Kido
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Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time All England champion. With these achievements, Setiawan has ...
2–3
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Hirokatsu Hashimoto
is a Japanese badminton player from Tonami Transportation badminton team. In 2013, he and his men's doubles partner Noriyasu Hirata, received the Badminton Nippon League's Valuable Player Award. He competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games. His ...
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Noriyasu Hirata
is a Japanese badminton player from Tonami Transportation badminton team. In 2013, he and his men's doubles partner Hirokatsu Hashimoto, received the Badminton Nippon League's Valuable Player Award. He competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games. ...
4–2
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Jung Jae-sung
Jung Jae-sung (also spelled Chung Jae-sung; Hangul: 정재성; Hanja: 鄭在成; ; 25 August 1982 – 9 March 2018) was a South Korean professional badminton player.
Jung was born on 25 August 1982 in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do. He started playing ba ...
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Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae (Hangul: 이용대; Hanja: 李龍大; ; born 11 September 1988) is a professional badminton player from South Korea who had been successful in both men's and mixed doubles. He reached world number 1 ranking with 4 different partners, ...
4–4
*
Cho Gun-woo
Cho Gun-woo (Hangul: 조건우; born 30 August 1988) is a South Korean badminton player from Samsung Electro-Mechanics, and joined the club since 2007.
Cho Gun-woo has focused his career on men's doubles, although he has competed in mixed doubles ...
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Shin Baek-cheol
Shin Baek-cheol (Hangul: 신백철; born 19 October 1989) is a mixed and men's doubles badminton player from South Korea. He is a World, Asian and World Junior Champions, as well a gold medalists in the Asian Games and Summer Universiade.
Car ...
1–0
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Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook (born 6 February 1976) is a former badminton player from Malaysia. Choong is currently coaching the Hong Kong badminton team.
Career overview
Choong made his debut in Olympic Games in 2000 Sydney. Partnered with Lee Wan W ...
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Lee Wan Wah
Lee Wan Wah (, born 24 November 1975) is a former badminton player from Malaysia. He is currently the Japan's junior team coach.
Career overview
Lee made his debut in Olympic Games in 2000 Sydney. Partnered with Choong Tan Fook, they adv ...
1–0
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Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat (; born 18 September 1985) is a Malaysian former professional badminton player. He succeeded in both men's and mixed doubles but is best known for his partnership with Tan Boon Heong with whom, he reached a career high ranking o ...
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Tan Boon Heong
Tan Boon Heong (, born 18 September 1987) is a former World No.1 Malaysian professional badminton player in the men's doubles event.
Career
2004-2006
Tan was previously paired with Hoon Thien How, with whom he won the World Junior Champi ...
6–1
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Adam Cwalina
Adam Cwalina (; born 26 January 1985) is a Polish badminton player. He competed in men's doubles event at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Michał Łogosz and 2016 Summer Olympics with Przemysław Wacha.
Achievements
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Gran ...
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Michał Łogosz
Michał Andrzej Łogosz (born 23 November 1977) is a Polish badminton player from Litpol-Malow Suwałki club. He was named best sportsman in Płock in 1995.
Career
Łogosz started playing badminton when he was in primary school, and in 1992, ...
1–0
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Bodin Isara
Bodin Isara (born 12 December 1990) is badminton player and Rattana Bundit University's student from Thailand. He competed for Thailand at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Maneepong Jongjit but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Malaysia's Koo Ki ...
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Maneepong Jongjit
Maneepong Jongjit ( th, มณีพงศ์ จงจิตร, ; born 21 March 1991) is a Thai badminton player. He studies at Ratna Bundit University.
Career
Maneepong Jongjit began to attract attention when he competed as a junior with B ...
0–3
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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 ...
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Tony Gunawan
Tony Gunawan (; born 9 April 1975) is an Indonesian-born American former badminton player. He gained several international achievements for Indonesia and later for the United States, including Olympic gold medal and world champion title.
Career ...
3–1
References
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1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from North Jeolla Province
South Korean male badminton players
Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of South Korea
Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Universiade gold medalists for South Korea
Universiade medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
World No. 1 badminton players
21st-century South Korean people