The XIX 2014 Pan Am Badminton Championships were held in Markham, Canada, between October 13 and October 19, 2014.
This event was part of the 2014 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix series of the Badminton World Federation.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Osleni Guerrero | Bjorn Seguin | Howard Shu |
Daniel Paiola | |||
Women's singles | Michelle Li | Rachel Honderich | Fabiana Silva |
Jamie Subandhi | |||
Men's doubles | Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng | Phillip Chew and Sattawat Pongnairat | Kevin Cordon and Anibal Marroquin |
Matthew Fogarty and Bjorn Seguin | |||
Women's doubles | Eva Lee and Paula Lynn Obanana | Lohaynny Vicente and Luana Vicente | Alexandra Bruce and Phyllis Chan |
Anne-Julie Beaulieu and Vicky Girard | |||
Mixed doubles | Toby Ng and Alexandra Bruce | Phillip Chew and Jamie Subandhi | Mario Cuba and Katherine Winder |
Andres Corpancho and Luz Maria Zornoza | |||
Teams | Canada | USA | Brazil |
Chien Yu-chin is a Taiwanese former badminton player.
Eva Lee is an American badminton player.
Nadieżda "Nadia" Zięba is a Polish retired badminton player of Belarusian origin. She won the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2012 European Championships. Zięba was three times mixed doubles quarter finalists in the badminton at the Summer Olympics.
Xu Chen is a badminton player from China. In 2010, he was ranked within the top 10 men's badminton doubles in the world. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the mixed doubles with Ma Jin, winning the silver medal. In the final they lost to Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei, also from China. He married a former Chinese national badminton team player, Pan Pan on 3 June 2014.
Michelle Li is a Canadian badminton player. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in both singles and doubles at the Pan American Games and won the singles and team event titles from the Pan American Badminton Championships. As a competitor for Ontario, Li also won singles, doubles, and mixed team titles at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.
Michael Fuchs is a retired international level badminton player from Germany.
Tobias Ng is a Canadian badminton player. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ng's father is from Hong Kong and his mother from Macau. He started playing badminton at the Kensington Community Centre, when he was about six years old. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the mixed doubles event with partner Grace Gao. His younger brother, Derrick Ng, is also an elite level player. Since 2020, Toby coaches advanced to professional level athletes at the Bellevue Badminton Club.
Bodin Isara 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 Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong. In 2013, Isara switched from competing for the national squad to competing for the Granular Club, an independent badminton club in Thailand. Currently his partner is Nipitphon Phuangphuapet.
Shinta Mulia Sari is an Indonesian-born Singaporean former badminton player. She represented Singapore in the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the women's doubles with Yao Lei. She and Yao reached the quarter-finals of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and were part of the Singaporean mixed team that won the bronze medal.
Shizuka Matsuo is a Japanese badminton player. Born in Osaka, Matsuo once affiliated with Sanyo Electric and Panasonic badminton team, and after that joining the NTT East team in 2013. She is currently works as a doubles coach in NTT East. Matsuo was a part of the Japanese women's team bronze medalist at the 2014 Asian Games.
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Adrian Liu is a male Canadian badminton player from Prince Rupert, British Columbia. He has been the top ranked men's individual and doubles player on the continent and a contender in major international competitions. He is a National champion in men's doubles and has won several international titles since 2010.
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Osleni Guerrero Velazco is a Cuban badminton player. He is the first Cuban badminton player to win a medal in the Pan American Games. Guerrero also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Pan Pan is a retired Chinese professional badminton player. With her partner Tian Qing, they managed to reach the fifth position in the world rankings. She retired in 2012 to be an assistant coach in Chinese Badminton Association. She married Xu Chen in mid-2011.
Choi Sol-gyu is a South Korean badminton player. He was a part of the Korean national team that won the 2017 Sudirman Cup.