Iran Fajr International

The Iran Fajr International in badminton is an international open held in Tehran, Iran and a part of the Fajr decade festival.^[1] This tournament is one of the oldest tournament in the Western Asia which was formerly known as Ten Days of Dawn in commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a ten-day celebration of Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran.^[2]

Previous winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Ref
1991	Lin Liwen	no competition	Huang Yi Zhu Yonghong	no competition	no competition	^[3]^[4]
1992	Sun Jun		Sun Jun Zeng Yu			^[5]
1993	Sung Han-kook		Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong			^[6]
1994	Rosslean Hasham					^[7]
1995	Ismail Saman		Khoo Boo Hock Lee Chee Leong			^[8]^[9]
1996	Chen Hong		Wu Changqing Zhang Jun			^[10]
1997	Morteza Validarvi		Ali Reza Shafiee Saed Bahador Zakizadeh			^[11]
1998	Morteza Validarvi	Saule Kustavletova	Ali Reza Shafiee Saed Bahador Zakizadeh	Saule Kustavletova Victoria Yefremova		^[12]
1999	Saed Bahador Zakizadeh	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva	Ali Shahhosseini Afshin Bozorgzadeh	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Sevinghe Akchundova		^[13]
2000	Not held
2001	Shōji Satō	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva	Shōji Satō Sho Sasaki	Setayesh Afshordi Behnaz Przamanbin	no competition	^[14]
2002	Golam Reza Bagheri	Behnaz Pirzamanbin	Ali Shahhosseini Farhad Soleimani	Setayesh Afshordi Behnaz Przamanbin		^[15]
2003	Shōji Satō	Saule Kustavletova	Yuichi Ikeda Shōji Satō	Ruzanna Hakobyan Anna Nazaryan		^[16]
2004	Shōji Satō	Li Li	Liu Kwok Wa Albertus Susanto Njoto	Jiang Yanmei Li Yujia		^[17]
2005	Erwin Djohan	Li Li	Erwin Djohan Hendra Wijaya	Frances Liu Shinta Mulia Sari		^[18]
2006	Wajid Ali Chaudhry	Behnaz Pirzamanbein	Ali Shahhoseini Golam Reza Bagheri	Gülcin Köse Nursel Aydoğmuş		^[19]
2007	Nabil Lasmari	Ana Moura	Ali Shahhoseini Nikzad Shiri	Negin Amiripour Sahar Zamanian		^[20]
2008	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif	Agnese Allegrini	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Indra Mawan Vountus	Norshahliza Baharum Lim Yin Loo		^[21]
2009	Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi	Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella	Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi Ali Shahhosseini	Ezgi Epice Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella		^[22]
2010	B. Sai Praneeth	Rie Eto	B. Sai Praneeth Pranav Chopra	Rie Eto Yu Wakita		^[23]
2011	Tommy Sugiarto	Nicole Grether	Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman Mohd Razif Abdul Latif	Achini Ratnasiri Upuli Weerasinghe		^[24]
2012	Niluka Karunaratne	Neslihan Yiğit	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra	Rie Eto Yu Wakita		^[25]
2013	Riyanto Subagja	Neslihan Yiğit	Wahyu Nayaka Ade Yusuf Santoso	Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho		^[26]
2014	Sourabh Varma	Tee Jing Yi	Chen Hung-ling Lu Chia-pin	Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho		^[27]
2015	David Obernosterer	Linda Zetchiri	Tai An Khang Yew Hong Kheng	Özge Bayrak Neslihan Yiğit		^[28]
2016	Cancelled					^[29]
2017	Panji Ahmad Maulana	Ksenia Polikarpova	Arjun M. R. Ramchandran Shlok	Ren-ne Ong Crystal Wong	no competition	^[30]
2018	Phạm Cao Cường	Thinaah Muralitharan	Alwin Francis K. Nandagopal	Setayesh Abdolkarimi Haleh Hamedanchi		^[31]
2019	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	Supanida Katethong	Adnan Maulana Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika	Nita Violina Marwah Putri Syaikah		^[32]
2020	Xiaodong Sheng	Crystal Pan	Soroush Eskandari Amir Jabbari	Nasim Safaei Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh		^[33]
2021	Cancelled^{[note 1]}					^[34]
2022	Meiraba Luwang Maisnam	Tasnim Mir	Abiyyu Fauzan Majid Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy	Ekaterina Malkova Anastasiia Shapovalova	no competition	^[35]
2023	Syabda Perkasa Belawa	Tanya Hemanth	Christian Bernardo Alvin Morada	Jesita Putri Miantoro Febi Setianingrum	Chen Tang Jie Toh Ee Wei	^[36]
2024	Nguyễn Hải Đăng	Lo Sin Yan	Krishna Prasad Garaga K. Sai Pratheek	Jaqueline Lima Sâmia Lima	Sathish Kumar Karunakaran Aadya Variyath	^[37]

^ This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

Performances by nation

As of the 2024 edition

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Iran	5	1	8	5		19
2	Malaysia	3	2	4	3	1	13
3	India	3	2	4		1	10
3	Indonesia	4		4	2		10
5	Japan	3	1	2	2		8
6	Singapore	1	2	1	3		7
7	China	3		3			6
7	Turkey		3		3		6
9	Azerbaijan		2		1		3
10	Kazakhstan		2		0.5		2.5
11	Canada	1	1				2
	Hong Kong		1	1			2
	Russia		1		1		2
	South Korea	1		1			2
	Sri Lanka	1			1		2
	Thailand	1	1				2
	Vietnam	2					2
18	Armenia				1		1
	Austria	1					1
	Brazil				1		1
	Bulgaria		1				1
	Chinese Taipei			1			1
	France	1					1
	Italy		1				1
	Pakistan	1					1
	Philippines			1			1
	Portugal		1				1
	Sweden		1				1
	United States		1				1
30	Turkmenistan				0.5		0.5
Total		28	24	29	24	2	107

References

^ "19 Countries Ready to Participate at Fajr Badminton Competition". www.tasnimnews.com. Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "Iranians begin 10-Day Dawn celebrations". www.irna.ir. Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ 1991 winners
^ "Chinese win at Fajr" (PDF). World Badminton. June 1991. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
^ 1992 winners
^ 1993 winners
^ "Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. July 1994. p. 33. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
^ 1995 winners
^ "Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. July 1995. p. 26. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
^ 1996 winners
^ Alemy, A. (May 1997). "Tehran, Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. p. 41. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ 1998 winners
^ 1999 winners
^ 2001 winners
^ 2002 winners
^ 2003 winners
^ 2004 winners
^ 2005 winners
^ 2006
^ 2007 winners
^ 2008 winners
^ 2009 winners
^ 2010 winners
^ 2011 winners
^ 2012 winners
^ 2013 winners
^ 2014 winners
^ 2015 winners
^ 2016
^ 2017 winners
^ 2018 winners
^ 2019 winners
^ 2020 winners
^ 2021
^ 2022 winners
^ 2023 winners
^ "32nd Iran Fajr International Challenge 2024 - Winners". BWF-Tournament Software.

[34] This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

[1] "19 Countries Ready to Participate at Fajr Badminton Competition". www.tasnimnews.com. Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

[2] "Iranians begin 10-Day Dawn celebrations". www.irna.ir. Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

[3] 1991 winners

[4] "Chinese win at Fajr" (PDF). World Badminton. June 1991. Retrieved 14 June 2024.

[5] 1992 winners

[6] 1993 winners

[7] "Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. July 1994. p. 33. Retrieved 23 June 2024.

[8] 1995 winners

[9] "Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. July 1995. p. 26. Retrieved 26 June 2024.

[10] 1996 winners

[11] Alemy, A. (May 1997). "Tehran, Iran" (PDF). World Badminton. p. 41. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

[12] 1998 winners

[13] 1999 winners

[14] 2001 winners

[15] 2002 winners

[16] 2003 winners

[17] 2004 winners

[18] 2005 winners

[19] 2006

[20] 2007 winners

[21] 2008 winners

[22] 2009 winners

[23] 2010 winners

[24] 2011 winners

[25] 2012 winners

[26] 2013 winners

[27] 2014 winners

[28] 2015 winners

[29] 2016

[30] 2017 winners

[31] 2018 winners

[32] 2019 winners

[33] 2020 winners

[35] 2021

[36] 2022 winners

[37] 2023 winners

[38] "32nd Iran Fajr International Challenge 2024 - Winners". BWF-Tournament Software.

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