Sivarajan Solaimalai

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Sivarajan Solaimalai is a para badminton player from Tamil Nadu. He qualified to represent India at the 2024 Para Olympics in the singles SH6 and men's doubles SH6 badminton events in Paris. [1] [2] He represented India at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China and won a bronze medal in the doubles SH6 event along with Krishna Nagar. [3]

Career

In June 2024, he won a silver medal in the 4 Nations Para Badminton International Level 1 tournament at Glasgow, Scotland. [4] He also won a bronze in singles and a silver in mixed doubles in the Spanish Para Badminton international event in 2024.

Earlier, he won a silver in the mixed doubles at Asian Para Games in 2023. He also won a mixed doubles gold along with Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan at the Brazil Para-Badminton International in April 2023. [5] He won a gold in the men's doubles partnering with Krishna Nagar at the 2023 Canada Para Badminton International in April 2023. [6]

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References

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