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Ville Lång

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

Ville Lång (born 14 February 1985) is a badminton player from Finland.[3] He won ten consecutive Finland's National Championship men's singles titles in 2005–2014, and 3 men's doubles title in 2010, 2011, and 2017. In 2003, he won bronze at the European Junior Championships. Lång competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He announced his retirement on 31 January 2016, and received a meritorious service award from BWF.[4][5] After retiring from the international competition, Lång started his coaching career first in Paris where he coached the league team Aulnay-sous-Bois after which he has been the head coach of one local club in Sweden. In 2019, he was elected as vice chairman of BWF Athletes' Commission to represent the needs and views of athletes to the BWF council and committees.[5]

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Achievements

European Junior Championships

Boys' singles

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BWF Grand Prix (1 title)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017.

Men's singles

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  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (14 titles, 11 runner-ups)

Men's singles

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  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

References

  1. [1]
    "Ville LANG Player Profile". bwf.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Ville Lång lopettaa sulkapallouransa ja kiittää vanhempiaan uhrautumisesta: "Sitä kiitollisuudenvelkaa ei pysty ikinä maksamaan takaisin"". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 31 January 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Ville Lång". rio.sulkapallo.fi (in Finnish). Badminton Finland. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Ville Lång päätti menestyksekkään huippusulkapalloilijan uransa". Sulkapalloliitto (in Finnish). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Athletes' Commission". bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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