Kunlavut Vitidsarn
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Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thai: กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์; simply known as View (Thai: วิว); born 11 May 2001) is a Thai badminton player.[1] He is the current men's singles World Champion as he won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.[2] He was also three-times World Junior champion, winning in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[3][4][5]
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Country | Thailand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2001-05-11) 11 May 2001 (age 23) Chonburi, Thailand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career record | 309 wins, 98 losses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 3 (6 June 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 8 (18 June 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vitidsarn became the first men's singles player to win three World Junior Championships titles, joining Ratchanok Intanon and Chen Qingchen as a three-time winner of the World Junior title in the same discipline.[6] He claimed the gold medal at the Asian Junior Championships in 2019, where he previously won a silver in 2018 and bronze in 2017.[7] Vitidsarn participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, and was part of the team Omega took the silver medal in the mixed team event.[8] He was named the 2020/2021 Eddy Choong Most Promising Player.[9]
In the senior category, Vitidsarn won the silver medal at the 2022 World Championships and, in the following year, the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.[10] He became the first Thai player to win the World Championships title in the men's singles category.[2] Vitidsarn clinched the gold medal at the 2021 SEA Games.[11] He reached a career high of world number 3 in June 2023.