Career
Dennerly-Minturn is an Auckland player on the international circuit and is also from the College Rifles badminton club. He comes from a very active and sporting family. From an early age he was gifted at a number of sports including cricket but pursued his passion for badminton and is now a key feature of the New Zealand doubles set up. He is based in Denmark for most of the year playing and training in the tough European environment. [4]
In 2008, he was the semi-finals in the men's and mixed doubles event at the Oceania Championships and won bronze. [5] He also won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2015 in the men's doubles event partnered with Oliver Leydon-Davis. [6] [7] Partner with Oliver, he won the 2012 Auckland and 2013 Mexico International tournaments. [8] [9] In the mixed doubles, he won the Waikato International tournament teamed up with Susannah Leydon-Davis. [10]
In 2017, he won the silver medal at the Oceania Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Niccolo Tagle. [11] In the mixed doubles event, he teamed-up with Danielle Tahuri, and they reach the semi-final round but was defeated by the top seeds from Australia. [12]
In recent times Kevin has undertaken endurance sports, culminating in the completion of the Western Australia Ironman with a time of 16 hours 43 minutes.
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