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Country
  
United Kingdom

Highest ranking
  
20 (29 May 2014)

Height
  
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)

Handedness
  
Right

Name
  
Chris Langridge

Coach
  
Pete Jeffrey


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Born
  
2 May 1985 (age 39) Epsom, England (
1985-05-02
)

Profiles


Current ranking
  
27 (28 August 2014)

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Chris Langridge (born 2 May 1985) is a British badminton player. He competed for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won three medals. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won a Bronze Medal in the Men's Doubles, partnered with Marcus Ellis.

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Early life and education

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Chris Langridge was born on 2 May 1985 in Epsom, Surrey.

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Langridge was educated at Therfield School, a state comprehensive school in the town of Leatherhead in Surrey in southern England. The school were twice National Schools champions. Langridge was introduced to badminton when he was ten by his teacher Jackie Cunningham who was a badminton coach of the county, and within 18 months at the age of twelve he made the England team. He also played tennis for the South East region, and he was a football player as well as a 100-metre and 200-metre runner.

Career

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Langridge teamed up with a number of players in the doubles, for example with Peter Mills in the men's doubles, and starting in 2012 with Heather Olver in the mixed doubles. Langridge won three medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – a silver in the mixed doubles with Olver, a bronze in the men's doubles with Mills, as well as a silver in the mixed team match. By 2013, he has won three gold medals at the English National Badminton Championships in the men's doubles (with Nathan Robertson in 2011 and Mills 2013) and mixed doubles (with Olver in 2013).

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In September 2014, he teamed up with Marcus Ellis. They won the men's doubles title in the English National Badminton Championships in both 2015 and 2016. They won a bronze in the 2016 European Championships in La Roche-sur-Yon. They have also won medals in the European Team Championships with a silver in the Mixed Team in 2015, and a bronze medal in the Men's Team in 2016.

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At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, despite ranking only No. 22 in the world, Ellis and Langridge managed to win a bronze, the first Olympic medal in badminton men's doubles won by a British team.

Personal life

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Langridge is married to Emma Page.

Summer Olympic Games

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Men's Doubles

European Badminton Championships

Men's Doubles

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

Men's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

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

References

Chris Langridge Wikipedia


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