Huang Chao (badminton)
| Huang Chao 黄超 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 June 1992 Jingzhou, Hubei, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 121 (10 June 2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Huang Chao (Chinese: 黄超; born 30 June 1992) is a Singaporean former badminton player. He is a one-time national champion.
Early life
[edit]Huang was born in Jingzhou, Hubei, China, and joined the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) on the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in 2004 when he was 12 years old.[1] The three-time provincial junior champion, whose father Huang Kai was a national player for China in the 1980s.[1]
Career
[edit]In 2010, Huang was Singapore's lone badminton representative at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. He made it to the quarter-finals, upsetting India's second seed B. Sai Praneeth along the way.[2]
Huang was part of the squad who won men's team bronzes at the 2009 and 2011 Southeast Asian Games. He is a former national champion, having won the men's singles title at the 2013 edition.[3]
In 2011, Huang reached his career high ranking of 121.[1]
Huang also played a part in the mixed team bronze at 2014's Glasgow Commonwealth Games.[1]
Huang retired from the Singapore national badminton team on 1 September 2015 due to shoulder injury.[4] He is expected to remain in Singapore and has not ruled out the possibility of working with the Singapore Badminton Association in the future.
In 2019, Huang came out of retirement to try for a place in the 2019 SEA Games.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Huang became a Singapore citizen in 2010.[1]
Achievements
[edit]- 2009
- Laos SEA Games Men's team - 3rd
- 2011
- Indonesia SEA Games Men's team - 3rd
- 2014
- Glasgow Commonwealth Games Mixed team - 3rd
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Huang quits S'pore team". AsiaOne. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ "Youth Olympic Badminton: Singapore's Huang Chao upsets Indian second seed". Jan Lin. 15 August 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "National Championships 2013". Singapore Badminton Association.
- ^ "Shuttler Huang Chao bids farewell". Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ Chia, Nicole (3 March 2019). "Badminton: Youth Olympics shuttler Huang Chao returns to fight for SEA Games spot". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 22 January 2024.