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 eldest 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][3]

Previous winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles
1991	Lin Liwen	no competition	Huang Yi Zhu Yonghong	no competition
1992	Sun Jun		Sun Jun Zeng Yu
1993	Sung Han-kook		Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong
1995	no competition		Khoo Boo Hock Lee Chee Leong
1996	Chen Hong		Wu Changqing Zhang Jun
1998	Morteza Validarvi	Saule Kustavletova	Ali Reza Shafiee Saed Bahador Zakizadeh	Saule Kustavletova Victoria Yefremova
1999	Saed Bahador Zakizadeh	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva	Ali Shahhosseini Afshin Bozorgzadeh	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Sevinghe Akchundova
2001	Shōji Satō	Nargiz Mekchtiyeva	Shōji Satō Sho Sasaki	Setaesh Afshordi Behnaz Perzamanbin
2002	Golam Reza Bagheri	Behnaz Perzamanbin	Ali Shahhosseini Farhad Solaimani
2003	Shōji Satō	Saule Kustavletova	Yuichi Ikeda Shōji Satō	Ruzanna Hakobyan Anna Nazaryan
2004		Li Li	Liu Kwok Wa Albertus Susanto Njoto	Jiang Yanmei Li Yujia
2005	Erwin Djohan		Erwin Djohan Hendra Wijaya	Frances Liu Shinta Mulia Sari
2006	Golam Reza Bagheri	Behnaz Perzamanbin	Eskandari Jalal Shiri Nikzad	Negin Amiripour Behnaz Perzamanbin
2007	Nabil Lasmari	Ana Moura	Ali Shahhoseini Shiri Nikzad	Negin Amiripour Zamanian Sahar
2008	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif	Agnese Allegrini	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Indra Mawan Vountus	Norshahliza Baharum Lim Yin Loo
2009	Mohammadreza Kheradmandi	Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella	Mohammadreza Kheradmandi Ali Shahhosseini	Ezgi Epice Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
2010	B. Sai Praneeth	Rie Eto	B. Sai Praneeth Pranav Chopra	Rie Eto Yu Wakita
2011	Tommy Sugiarto	Nicole Grether	Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman Mohd Razif Abdul Latif	Achini Nimeshika Ratnasiri Upuli Samanthika Weerasinghe
2012	Niluka Karunaratne	Neslihan Yiğit	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Agripina Prima Rahmanto	Rie Eto Yu Wakita
2013	Riyanto Subagja		Wahyu Nayaka Ade Yusuf	Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho
2014	Sourabh Varma	Tee Jing Yi	Chen Hung-ling Lu Chia-pin
2015	David Obernosterer	Linda Zetchiri	Tai An Khang Yew Hong Kheng	Özge Bayrak Neslihan Yiğit
2017	Panji Ahmad Maulana	Ksenia Polikarpova	Arjun M.R. Ramchandran Shlok	Ong Ren Ne Crystal Wong Jia Ying
2018	Phạm Cao Cường	Muralitharan Thinaah	Alwin Francis K. Nandagopal	Setayesh Abdolkarimi Hamedanchi Azad Hale
2019	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	Supanida Katethong	Adnan Maulana Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika	Nita Violina Marwah Putri Syaikah
2020	Xiaodong Sheng	Crystal Pan	Soroush Eskandari Vatannejad Amir Jabbari	Nasim Safaei Hananeh Yaghobzadeh

Performances by nation

Top Nations
Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	Total
1	Iran	5	2	7	6	20
2	Malaysia	1	2	4	3	10
3	Japan	3	1	2	2	8
4	Indonesia	3		3	1	7
	Singapore	1	2	1	3	7
6	China	3		3		6
7	Turkey		3		2.5	5.5
8	India	2		3		5
9	Azerbaijan		2		1	3
10	Kazakhstan		2		0.5	2.5
11	Canada	1	1			2
	South Korea	1		1		2
	Sri Lanka	1			1	2
	Thailand	1	1			2
15	Armenia				1	1
	Austria	1				1
	Bulgaria		1			1
	Chinese Taipei			1		1
	France	1				1
	Hong Kong			1		1
	Italy		1			1
	Portugal		1			1
	Russia		1			1
	United States		1			1
	Vietnam	1				1
Total		25	21	26	21	93

References

1. "19 Countries Ready to Participate at Fajr Badminton Competition". www.tasnimnews.com. Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
2. "Celebrations begin in Iran to mark anniversary of Islamic Revolution". www.presstv.ir. Press TV. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
3. "Iranians begin 10-Day Dawn celebrations". www.irna.ir. Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

External links

• Badminton World Federation (BWF)