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

Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles Ref
1991 China Lin Liwen no competition China Huang Yi
China Zhu Yonghong
no competition no competition [3][4]
1992 China Sun Jun China Sun Jun
China Zeng Yu
[5]
1993 South Korea Sung Han-kook South Korea Kim Moon-soo
South Korea Park Joo-bong
[6]
1994 Not held
1995 no competition no competition Malaysia Khoo Boo Hock
Malaysia Lee Chee Leong
no competition no competition [7]
1996 China Chen Hong China Wu Changqing
China Zhang Jun
[8]
1997 Not held
1998 Iran Morteza Validarvi Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova Iran Alireza Shafiei
Iran Bahador Zakizadeh
Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova
Turkmenistan Victoria Yefremova
no competition [9]
1999 Iran Bahador Zakizadeh Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Iran Afshin Bozorgzadeh
Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva
Azerbaijan Sevinghe Akchundova
[10]
2000 Not held
2001 Japan Shōji Satō Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Japan Shōji Satō
Japan Sho Sasaki
Iran Setayesh Afshordi
Iran Behnaz Przamanbin
no competition [11]
2002 Iran Golam Reza Bagheri Iran Behnaz Pirzamanbin Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Iran Farhad Soleimani
[12]
2003 Japan Shōji Satō Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova Japan Yuichi Ikeda
Japan Shōji Satō
Armenia Ruzanna Hakobyan
Armenia Anna Nazaryan
[13]
2004 Singapore Li Li Hong Kong Liu Kwok Wa
Hong Kong Albertus Susanto Njoto
Singapore Jiang Yanmei
Singapore Li Yujia
[14]
2005 Singapore Erwin Djohan Singapore Erwin Djohan
Singapore Hendra Wijaya
Singapore Frances Liu
Singapore Shinta Mulia Sari
[15]
2006 Pakistan Wajid Ali Chaudhry Sweden Behnaz Pirzamanbein Iran Ali Shahhoseini
Iran Golam Reza Bagheri
Turkey Gülcin Köse
Turkey Nursel Aydoğmuş
[16]
2007 Algeria Nabil Lasmari Portugal Ana Moura Iran Ali Shahhoseini
Iran Nikzad Shiri
Iran Negin Amiripour
Iran Sahar Zamanian
[17]
2008 Malaysia Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Italy Agnese Allegrini Malaysia Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif
Malaysia Indra Mawan Vountus
Malaysia Norshahliza Baharum
Malaysia Lim Yin Loo
[18]
2009 Iran Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi Turkey Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella Iran Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi
Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Turkey Ezgi Epice
Turkey Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
[19]
2010 India B. Sai Praneeth Japan Rie Eto India B. Sai Praneeth
India Pranav Chopra
Japan Rie Eto
Japan Yu Wakita
[20]
2011 Indonesia Tommy Sugiarto Canada Nicole Grether Malaysia Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman
Malaysia Mohd Razif Abdul Latif
Sri Lanka Achini Ratnasiri
Sri Lanka Upuli Weerasinghe
[21]
2012 Sri Lanka Niluka Karunaratne Turkey Neslihan Yiğit Indonesia Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Indonesia Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra
Japan Rie Eto
Japan Yu Wakita
[22]
2013 Indonesia Riyanto Subagja Indonesia Wahyu Nayaka
Indonesia Ade Yusuf Santoso
Malaysia Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Malaysia Soong Fie Cho
[23]
2014 India Sourabh Varma Malaysia Tee Jing Yi Chinese Taipei Chen Hung-ling
Chinese Taipei Lu Chia-pin
[24]
2015 Austria David Obernosterer Bulgaria Linda Zetchiri Malaysia Tai An Khang
Malaysia Yew Hong Kheng
Turkey Özge Bayrak
Turkey Neslihan Yiğit
[25]
2016 Cancelled [26]
2017 Indonesia Panji Ahmad Maulana Russia Ksenia Polikarpova India Arjun M. R.
India Ramchandran Shlok
Singapore Ren-ne Ong
Singapore Crystal Wong
no competition [27]
2018 Vietnam Phạm Cao Cường Malaysia Thinaah Muralitharan India Alwin Francis
India K. Nandagopal
Iran Setayesh Abdolkarimi
Iran Haleh Hamedanchi
[28]
2019 Thailand Kunlavut Vitidsarn Thailand Supanida Katethong Indonesia Adnan Maulana
Indonesia Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika
Indonesia Nita Violina Marwah
Indonesia Putri Syaikah
[29]
2020 Canada Xiaodong Sheng United States Crystal Pan Iran Soroush Eskandari
Iran Amir Jabbari
Iran Nasim Safaei
Iran Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh
[30]
2021 Cancelled[note 1] [31]
2022 India Meiraba Luwang Maisnam India Tasnim Mir Indonesia Abiyyu Fauzan Majid
Indonesia Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy
Russia Ekaterina Malkova
Russia Anastasiia Shapovalova
no competition [32]
2023 Indonesia Syabda Perkasa Belawa India Tanya Hemanth Philippines Christian Bernardo
Philippines Alvin Morada
Indonesia Jesita Putri Miantoro
Indonesia Febi Setianingrum
Malaysia Chen Tang Jie
Malaysia Toh Ee Wei
[33]
2024 Vietnam Nguyễn Hải Đăng Hong Kong Lo Sin Yan India Krishna Prasad Garaga
India K. Sai Pratheek
Brazil Jaqueline Lima
Brazil Sâmia Lima
India Sathish Kumar Karunakaran
India Aadya Variyath
[34]
  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

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

  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. ^ "Chinese win at Fajr" (PDF). World Badminton. June 1991. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  5. ^ 1992 winners
  6. ^ 1993 winners
  7. ^ 1995 winners
  8. ^ 1996 winners
  9. ^ 1998 winners
  10. ^ 1999 winners
  11. ^ 2001 winners
  12. ^ 2002 winners
  13. ^ 2003 winners
  14. ^ 2004 winners
  15. ^ 2005 winners
  16. ^ 2006
  17. ^ 2007 winners
  18. ^ 2008 winners
  19. ^ 2009 winners
  20. ^ 2010 winners
  21. ^ 2011 winners
  22. ^ 2012 winners
  23. ^ 2013 winners
  24. ^ 2014 winners
  25. ^ 2015 winners
  26. ^ 2016
  27. ^ 2017 winners
  28. ^ 2018 winners
  29. ^ 2019 winners
  30. ^ 2020 winners
  31. ^ 2021
  32. ^ 2022 winners
  33. ^ 2023 winners
  34. ^ "32nd Iran Fajr International Challenge 2024 - Winners". BWF-Tournament Software.
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