Chan Yun Lung

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Chan Yun Lung
陳潤龍
Personal information
CountryFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Born (1988-02-29) 29 February 1988 (age 36)
Hong Kong [1]
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
HandednessRight
Men's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking32 (MD) 13 February 2014
15 (XD) 16 July 2015

Alan Chan Yun Lung (born 29 February 1988) is a male badminton player from New Zealand who specializes in doubles. In 2008 he started representing Hong Kong, then in 2017 he returned to representing New Zealand.

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Career

Chan started his junior career at age eight as a New Zealand player. [2] In 1999, when he was eleven, he won the boys' and mixed doubles title at the New Zealand U-14 championships. [3]

In 2004, he represented his country at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Bendigo, Australia. [4] He was also a member of the New Zealand team at the 2007 Sudirman Cup in Glasgow, Scotland. [3]

Chan moved to Hong Kong with his parents and, in 2008, he was selected to join the national team. [2] [5] He was the 2012 and 2013 mixed doubles champion at the Hong Kong national championships. He also represented Hong Kong at the 2014 Asian Games. [6]

Achievements

BWF International Series

Mixed Doubles

Chan Yun Lung
Traditional Chinese 陳潤龍
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Chén Rùnlóng
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2013 Austrian International Flag of Hong Kong.svg Tse Ying Suet Flag of Hong Kong.svg Lee Chun Hei
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Chau Hoi Wah
15-21, 21-16, 21-16Gold medal icon.svgChampion
2013 Vietnam International Flag of Hong Kong.svg Tse Ying Suet Flag of Hong Kong.svg Lee Chun Hei
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Chau Hoi Wah
21-4, 17-21, 21-17Gold medal icon.svgChampion

Men's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2013 Vietnam International Flag of Hong Kong.svg Wong Wai Hong Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Liao Min-chun
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Yang Po-han
28-30, 14-21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up

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References

  1. "CHAN Alan Yun Lung". bwf.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. 1 2 "Players: Chan Alan Yun Lung". Badminton World Federation . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Player Profile: Alan Chan". Sport New Zealand . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  4. "Alan Chan". New Zealand Olympic Committee . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  5. "Congratulations to Auckland's New National Squad Members". Sport New Zealand . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  6. "運動員資料 Athlete's Biography: 陳潤龍". Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China . Retrieved 3 August 2017.