Felix Burestedt

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Felix Burestedt
Personal information
Birth nameFelix Jacob Burestedt
CountrySweden
Born (1995-02-26) 26 February 1995 (age 30)
Ängelholm, Sweden
Residence Vellinge, Sweden [1]
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) [2]
Weight80 kg (176 lb) [2]
HandednessRight
Men's singles
Highest ranking56 (21 January 2020)
Current ranking72 (31 January 2023)
BWF profile

Felix Jacob Burestedt (born 26 February 1995) is a Swedish badminton player. Trained at the Halmstad BMK, Burestedt made his international debut in 2013, and entered the Badminton Europe Centre of Excellence (CoE) in 2017. [3] He won his first international title at the 2018 Lithuanian International in the men's singles event. [4] He competed at the 2019 European Games, [2] and also at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [5]

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Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 3 runners-up)

Men's singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2018 Portuguese International Flag of Denmark.svg Rasmus Messerschmidt 18–21, 15–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2018 Lithuanian International Flag of Poland.svg Michał Rogalski 21–12, 23–21Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2019 Portuguese International Flag of Malaysia.svg Soo Teck Zhi 21–23, 21–8, 21–17Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2019 Azerbaijan International Flag of Denmark.svg Rasmus Gemke 13–21, 12–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2020 Swedish Open Flag of Denmark.svg Victor Svendsen 8–18 RetiredSilver medal icon.svgRunner-up
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

References

  1. "Felix Jacob Burestedt" (in Swedish). Mrkoll.se. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Burestedt Felix". Minsk 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. "Felix Burestedt". Badminton Europe . Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. Raftery, Alan (10 June 2018). "Felix Burestedt victorious. One for the BEC Centre of Excellence". Badminton Europe . Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  5. Appelqvist, Viktor (25 July 2021). "Felix föll mot världsfyran i OS-premiären" (in Swedish). Badminton Sweden. Retrieved 7 April 2022.