Alistair Casey (born 23 February 1981) is a Scottish Capped Professional

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player.

Playing career

In 2011 he went out in the first round of the World Championships but was runner up at the Mexico International and Semi Finalist of the Suriname International. In 2012 he was the winner of both the Botswana and South Africa Internationals.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

Coaching career

Casey coached for the

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at the

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in Rio de Janeiro. He was also the coach and team leader for the USA Badminton team at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo. Casey is the coach of the

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Badminton team. They compete in the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Casey, Alistair 1981 births Living people Badminton players from Glasgow Scottish male badminton players 21st-century Scottish sportsmen