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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1994-01-04 ) 4 January 1994 (age 32) , Odense , Denmark
- Years active
- 2010–2026
- Height
- 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Country
- Denmark
- Sport
- Badminton
- Handedness
- Right
- Coached by
- Peter Gade , Henrik Rohde
- Retired
- 15 April 2026
- Career record
- 572 wins, 160 losses
- Highest ranking
- 1 (28 September 2017)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Viktor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Odense
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Native language
- Danish
- Participant in
- badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- Sport
- badminton
- Country for sport
- Denmark
- Mass
- 88
- Official website
- www.viktoraxelsen.dk
- Image
- Viktor Axelsen - Indonesia Masters 2018.jpg
- Height
- 194
- Residence
- Copenhagen
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- date of birth
- 1994-01-04
- name in native language
- Viktor Lundager Axelsen
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- birth name
- Viktor Lundager Axelsen
- Commons category
- Viktor Axelsen
- social media followers
- 347000
- trained by
- Peter Gade
- handedness
- right-handedness
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Encyclopedic overview
Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish former professional badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion, and four-time European Champion. He has held the No. 1 BWF World Ranking in men's singles for a total of 183 weeks (as of August 2024). Throughout his career, Axelsen has won every single major title in both team and individual events at least once (World Tour Super 1000 level or higher), except for Sudirman Cup (where his team won Bronze in 2013).
Axelsen won the World Championships in 2017 and 2022, becoming the only non-Asian male player besides Thomas Lund to win the title twice. He is also the back-to-back reigning Olympic Champion, winning the gold medals in men's singles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics after his bronze medal in 2016 Rio Olympics, thereby becoming the most successful badminton men’s singles player in Olympic history and one of the most decorated badminton players in history. He is regarded as one of the all-time greats of badminton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viktor Axelsen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.