Catherina Paulin

Last updated
Catherina Paulin
Personal information
CountryFlag of the Seychelles.svg  Seychelles
Born (1985-02-03) 3 February 1985 (age 36)
Women's singles & doubles
Highest ranking319 (WS 22 October 2009)
207 (WD 22 October 2009)
295 (XD 15 October 2009)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing Flag of the Seychelles.svg  Seychelles
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Abuja Mixed team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Algiers Women's singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Algiers Mixed team
African Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Rose Hill Mixed team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Algiers Women's doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Nairobi Mixed team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Casablanca Women's doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Algiers Mixed team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Rose Hill Women's doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Nairobi Women's singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Nairobi Women's doubles
BWF profile

Catherina Paulin (born 3 February 1985) is a Seychellois badminton player. [1] She was part of the national team that won the bronze medals at the 2003 and 2007 All-Africa Games, also settled another bronze medal in the women's singles in 2007. Paulin competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. [2]

Contents

Achievements

All-Africa Games

Women's singles

YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2007 Salle OMS El Biar, Algiers, Algeria Flag placeholder.svg–, – Med 3.png Bronze

African Championships

Women's singles

YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2009 Moi International Sports Complex, Nairobi, Kenya Flag of South Africa.svg Stacey Doubell 13–21, 17–21 Med 3.png Bronze

Women's doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2009 Moi International Sports Complex,
Nairobi, Kenya
Flag of the Seychelles.svg Juliette Ah-Wan Flag of South Africa.svg Stacey Doubell
Flag of South Africa.svg Kerry-Lee Harrington
19–21, 21–19, 17–21 Med 3.png Bronze
2007 Stadium Badminton Rose Hill,
Rose Hill, Mauritius
Flag of the Seychelles.svg Juliette Ah-Wan Flag of South Africa.svg Michelle Edwards
Flag of South Africa.svg Chantal Botts
17–21, 19–21 Med 3.png Bronze
2006 Salle OMS El Biar,
Algiers, Algeria
Flag of the Seychelles.svg Juliette Ah-Wan Flag of South Africa.svg Michelle Edwards
Flag of South Africa.svg Stacey Doubell
12–21, 21–23 Med 2.png Silver
2002 Casablanca, Morocco Flag of the Seychelles.svg Juliette Ah-Wan Flag of Nigeria.svg Miriam Sude
Flag of Nigeria.svg Grace Daniel
2–7, 3–7, 5–7 Med 3.png Bronze

IBF International

Women's singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2002 South Africa International Flag of South Africa.svg Michelle Edwards 2–7, 2–7, 0–7Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up

Related Research Articles

Petya Nedelcheva Badminton player

Petya Nedelcheva is a Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.

Pi Hongyan Badminton player

Pi Hongyan is a badminton player competing for France of Chinese origin.

Jiang Yanmei is a Singaporean badminton player. She competed at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics; 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games; and also 2006 Asian Games.

Salakjit Ponsana Badminton player

Salakjit Ponsana (Thai: สลักจิต พลสนะ; RTGS: Salakchit Phonsana, born 14 February 1984 is a badminton player from Thailand. She competed in the women's singles event at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her brother, Boonsak Ponsana is also a Thai olympian.

Saina Nehwal Indian badminton player

Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton singles player. A former world no. 1, she has won over 24 international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in the 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only female player from India and overall the second Indian player – after Prakash Padukone – to achieve this feat. She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance.

P. V. Sindhu Badminton player

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player. Having made her international debut in 2009, she rose to a career high ranking of no. 2 in April 2017. Over the course of her career, Pusarla has won medals at multiple tournaments including Olympics and on the BWF circuit including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the first Indian woman to earn an Olympic silver medal.

Porntip Buranaprasertsuk Badminton player

Porntip Buranaprasertsuk is a badminton player from Thailand. Buranaprasertsuk won her first Superseries title in 2011 India Open on 1 May 2011, becoming the first Thai to win a women's singles title in the Superseries tournament. She competed at the 2010, 2014 Asian Games, also in four consecutive Southeast Asian Games, and was part of the team that won the women's team gold medals in 2011 and 2015 Southeast Asian Games.

Chloe Noelle Magee is an Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Olympic Games for three consecutive times in 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, and 2016 Rio de Janeiro. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she became the first Irish woman to win a badminton match at the Olympics. She has been described as "the poster girl for Irish badminton". Together with her brother Sam Magee, she clinched a bronze medal at the 2017 European Championships, became Ireland's first medal at the European Badminton Championship. The duo also captured the bronze medals at the 2015 and 2019 European Games.

Nozomi Okuhara Badminton player

Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player and the former World's No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles, well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.

Xing Aiying is a Chinese-born Singaporean badminton player who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Soniia Cheah Su Ya Malaysian badminton player

Soniia Cheah Su Ya is a Malaysian badminton player. She is the younger sister of Lydia Cheah Li Ya who is also a professional badminton player. In her junior career, she represented Malaysia at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 Asian Junior Championships, World Junior Championships, 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, and 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.

Rachel Honderich is a Canadian badminton player from Toronto, Ontario. She has been one of the top ranked women's individual and doubles player on the continent and a contender in major international competitions. She is a vice-national champion in women's singles and has won several international titles since 2010. She won her first senior international title at the 2014 Czech International tournament in the women's doubles partnered with Michelle Li. Honderich clinched the silver and bronze medals at the 2015 Pan American Games in the women's singles and doubles respectively. At the 2017 Pan American Championships, she crowned double titles, won the women's singles and mixed doubles event. She competed at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Honderich won her first gold medal at the Pan American Games in the women's doubles partnered with Kristen Tsai in 2019 Lima.

Gadde Ruthvika Shivani Badminton player

Gadde Ruthvika Shivani is an Indian badminton player who currently plays singles. She trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy.

Julia Mann is a female retired British badminton player.

He Bingjiao is a Chinese badminton player. She began to receive intensive badminton training at the Suzhou Junior Sports School, when she was only 7 years old. Five years later, she was sent to study in Nanjing and for tougher training there. The junior already competed in the senior level, and made her first senior international debut at the 2013 Vietnam Open. In 2014 she competed at the Summer Youth Olympics, winning a gold medal in the girls' singles and a bronze in the mixed doubles event.

Iris Wang is an American badminton player who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ksenia Olegovna Polikarpova is a Russian-born Israeli badminton player. In 2009, she won a bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Milan, Italy. She also won bronze medals at the European Mixed Team Badminton Championships in 2011, 2013, and 2015 with Russian national badminton team. Polikarpova became an Israeli citizen in May 2017 and won a gold medal in 2017 Maccabiah Games.

Daniela Macías Brandes is a Peruvian badminton player.

Dotun Akinsanya is a Nigerian badminton player. He won the silver medals in the men's doubles and mixed team event, also the bronze medal in the men's singles at the 2003 All-Africa Games. Akinsanya later captured the gold medal in 2007 All-Africa Games in the mixed team event.

Han Jingna is a Chinese retired badminton player who rated among the world's leading women's singles players in the 1990s. Han began practicing badminton at the age of seven. Two years later, she trained at the sports school in Wuhan. She was selected to join the Hubei team in 1988 when she was thirteen, and to join the national team in 1989. She was part of national teams that clinched the 1995 Sudirman Cup in Lausanne, and the 1998 Uber Cup in Hong Kong, She won the silver medal for women's singles at the 1995 World Championships by upsetting South Korea's Bang Soo-hyun in the semifinals before falling to Chinese teammate Ye Zhaoying in the finals. Han also earned a singles bronze medal at the next World Championships in 1997. She competed in the women's singles competition at the 1996 Olympic Games but was eliminated in the quarterfinals round by the defending Olympic gold medalist Susi Susanti of Indonesia.

References

  1. "Players: Catherina Paulin". bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation . Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. "Athlete Biography: Katherina Paulin". m2002.thecgf.com. Manchester 2002. Retrieved 3 December 2016.