Iran Fajr International

The Iran Fajr International in badminton is an international open held in Tehran, Iran and a part of the Fajr decade festival.[1] This tournament is one of the eldest tournament in the Western Asia which was formerly known as Ten Days of Dawn in commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a ten-day celebration of Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran.[2]

Previous winners edit

Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
1991[3]   Lin Liwen no competition   Huang Yi
  Zhu Yonghong
no competition no competition
1992[4]   Sun Jun   Sun Jun
  Zeng Yu
1993[5]   Sung Han-kook   Kim Moon-soo
  Park Joo-bong
1994 Not held
1995[6] no competition no competition   Khoo Boo Hock
  Lee Chee Leong
no competition no competition
1996[7]   Chen Hong   Wu Changqing
  Zhang Jun
1997 Not held
1998[8]   Morteza Validarvi   Saule Kustavletova   Alireza Shafiei
  Bahador Zakizadeh
  Saule Kustavletova
  Victoria Yefremova
no competition
1999[9]   Bahador Zakizadeh   Nargiz Mekchtiyeva   Ali Shahhosseini
  Afshin Bozorgzadeh
  Nargiz Mekchtiyeva
  Sevinghe Akchundova
2000 Not held
2001[10]   Shōji Satō   Nargiz Mekchtiyeva   Shōji Satō
  Sho Sasaki
  Setayesh Afshordi
  Behnaz Przamanbin
no competition
2002[11]   Golam Reza Bagheri   Behnaz Pirzamanbin   Ali Shahhosseini
  Farhad Soleimani
2003[12]   Shōji Satō   Saule Kustavletova   Yuichi Ikeda
  Shōji Satō
  Ruzanna Hakobyan
  Anna Nazaryan
2004[13]   Li Li   Liu Kwok Wa
  Albertus Susanto Njoto
  Jiang Yanmei
  Li Yujia
2005[14]   Erwin Djohan   Erwin Djohan
  Hendra Wijaya
  Frances Liu
  Shinta Mulia Sari
2006[15]   Wajid Ali Chaudhry   Behnaz Pirzamanbein   Ali Shahhoseini
  Golam Reza Bagheri
  Gülcin Köse
  Nursel Aydoğmuş
2007[16]   Nabil Lasmari   Ana Moura   Ali Shahhoseini
  Nikzad Shiri
  Negin Amiripour
  Sahar Zamanian
2008[17]   Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif   Agnese Allegrini   Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif
  Indra Mawan Vountus
  Norshahliza Baharum
  Lim Yin Loo
2009[18]   Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi   Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella   Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi
  Ali Shahhosseini
  Ezgi Epice
  Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
2010[19]   B. Sai Praneeth   Rie Eto   B. Sai Praneeth
  Pranav Chopra
  Rie Eto
  Yu Wakita
2011[20]   Tommy Sugiarto   Nicole Grether   Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman
  Mohd Razif Abdul Latif
  Achini Ratnasiri
  Upuli Weerasinghe
2012[21]   Niluka Karunaratne   Neslihan Yiğit   Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
  Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra
  Rie Eto
  Yu Wakita
2013[22]   Riyanto Subagja   Wahyu Nayaka
  Ade Yusuf Santoso
  Amelia Alicia Anscelly
  Soong Fie Cho
2014[23]   Sourabh Varma   Tee Jing Yi   Chen Hung-ling
  Lu Chia-pin
2015[24]   David Obernosterer   Linda Zetchiri   Tai An Khang
  Yew Hong Kheng
  Özge Bayrak
  Neslihan Yiğit
2016[25] Cancelled
2017[26]   Panji Ahmad Maulana   Ksenia Polikarpova   Arjun M. R.
  Ramchandran Shlok
  Ren-ne Ong
  Crystal Wong
no competition
2018[27]   Phạm Cao Cường   Thinaah Muralitharan   Alwin Francis
  K. Nandagopal
  Setayesh Abdolkarimi
  Haleh Hamedanchi
2019[28]   Kunlavut Vitidsarn   Supanida Katethong   Adnan Maulana
  Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika
  Nita Violina Marwah
  Putri Syaikah
2020[29]   Xiaodong Sheng   Crystal Pan   Soroush Eskandari
  Amir Jabbari
  Nasim Safaei
  Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh
2021[30] Cancelled[note 1]
2022[31]   Meiraba Luwang Maisnam   Tasnim Mir   Abiyyu Fauzan Majid
  Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy
  Ekaterina Malkova
  Anastasiia Shapovalova
no competition
2023[32]   Syabda Perkasa Belawa   Tanya Hemanth   Christian Bernardo
  Alvin Morada
  Jesita Putri Miantoro
  Febi Setianingrum
  Chen Tang Jie
  Toh Ee Wei
2024[33]   Nguyễn Hải Đăng   Lo Sin Yan   Krishna Prasad Garaga
  K. Sai Pratheek
  Jaqueline Lima
  Sâmia Lima
  Sathish Kumar Karunakaran
  Aadya Variyath
  1. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

Performances by nation edit

As of the 2024 edition
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1   Iran 4 1 7 5 17
2   Malaysia 1 2 4 3 1 11
3   India 3 2 4 1 10
  Indonesia 4 4 2 10
5   Japan 3 1 2 2 8
6   Singapore 1 2 1 3 7
7   China 3 3 6
  Turkey 3 3 6
9   Azerbaijan 2 1 3
10   Kazakhstan 2 0.5 2.5
11   Canada 1 1 2
  Hong Kong 1 1 2
  Russia 1 1 2
  South Korea 1 1 2
  Sri Lanka 1 1 2
  Thailand 1 1 2
  Vietnam 2 2
18   Armenia 1 1
  Austria 1 1
  Brazil 1 1
  Bulgaria 1 1
  Chinese Taipei 1 1
  France 1 1
  Italy 1 1
  Pakistan 1 1
  Philippines 1 1
  Portugal 1 1
  Sweden 1 1
  United States 1 1
30   Turkmenistan 0.5 0.5
Total 28 24 29 24 2 107

References edit

  1. ^ "19 Countries Ready to Participate at Fajr Badminton Competition". www.tasnimnews.com. Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Iranians begin 10-Day Dawn celebrations". www.irna.ir. Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. ^ 1991 winners
  4. ^ 1992 winners
  5. ^ 1993 winners
  6. ^ 1995 winners
  7. ^ 1996 winners
  8. ^ 1998 winners
  9. ^ 1999 winners
  10. ^ 2001 winners
  11. ^ 2002 winners
  12. ^ 2003 winners
  13. ^ 2004 winners
  14. ^ 2005 winners
  15. ^ 2006
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  17. ^ 2008 winners
  18. ^ 2009 winners
  19. ^ 2010 winners
  20. ^ 2011 winners
  21. ^ 2012 winners
  22. ^ 2013 winners
  23. ^ 2014 winners
  24. ^ 2015 winners
  25. ^ 2016
  26. ^ 2017 winners
  27. ^ 2018 winners
  28. ^ 2019 winners
  29. ^ 2020 winners
  30. ^ 2021
  31. ^ 2022 winners
  32. ^ 2023 winners
  33. ^ "32nd Iran Fajr International Challenge 2024 - Winners".