Dechapol PUAVARANUKROH
๐น๐ญXDDechapol Puavaranukroh (Thai: เนเธเธเธฒเธเธฅ เธเธฑเธงเธงเธฃเธฒเธเธธเนเธเธฃเธฒเธฐเธซเน; born 20 May 1997) is a Thai badminton player. He was a gold medalist at the 2014 BWF World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partner Kittinupong Kedren. Puavaranukroh claimed doubles titles at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games by winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with Kedren and in the mixed doubles with Sapsiree Taerattanachai. Together with Taerattanachai, he won the silver and gold medals at the BWF World Championships in 2019 and 2021 respectively, became the first Thai pair who won the world title. The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian leg titles in Thailand and all 2021 Bali leg titles, thus climbing to world number 1 in the BWF ranking. Puavaranukroh and Taerattanachai made history as the first ever Thai players to win a title in the year-end Finals tournaments and rank first in the world ranking. Text from Wikipedia (shared under CC-BY-SA)