Nhat Nguyen

BADMINTON

Gender

Male

Personal Best

World Ranking: 54

Date Of Birth

June 16, 2000

Hometown

Clarehall, Dublin

BIOGRAPHY

Nhat is a Team Ireland IOC Scholarship athlete, who first took up badminton when he moved to Ireland from Vietnam when he was six. He won the European U17 title when he was 15, the same year he won his first Irish senior title. He won a European Junior bronze medal in 2018 when he also made the quarter-finals of World Juniors and the Youth Olympics. In his first year senior (2019) he reached quarterfinals at four international tournaments and made last 16 at the European Games. He also won seven of his eight games at the 2019 World Team Challenge where Ireland narrowly missed winning Division 3. In 2021 he got to the last 16 at the English Open and the European Championships.

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