Jan Fröhlich (born 15 March 1980) is a Czech

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. He now works as a badminton coach at BC Olympica Brig, Switzerland, and also competes in international senior tournaments representing Switzerland.

Career

He won the men's singles title at the

Czech National Badminton Championships The Czech National Badminton Championships ( cs, Mistrovství České republiky v badmintonu) is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in the Czech Republic. The tournament started in 1993 and is held every year. Past winner ...

ten times from 1998-2006 back to back and in 2012, also in the men's doubles event in 2000, 2001, and 2005. Fröhlich played the

2007 BWF World Championships The 2007 BWF World Championships is the 16th tournament of BWF World Championships (World Badminton Championships). It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 13 to 19 August 2007. Host city selection Aarhus and Kuala Lumpur were the candid ...

in men's singles, and was defeated in the first round by

Chan Yan Kit Chan Yan Kit (, born 10 December 1985) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. He competed at the Asian Games from 2006 to 2014. Career He competed at the 2006 IBF World Championships in men's singles and was defeated in first round by Eric Pang. ...

, of Hong Kong, 21-15, 21-9. 2005 he won the

Kenya International The Kenya International is an annual open international badminton tournament held in Kenya. This tournament organized by the Kenya Badminton Association, with the sanctioned by the Badminton Confederation of Africa (BCA) and Badminton World Feder ...

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed 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 The Badminton ...

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

References

External links

* 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Mladá Boleslav Czech male badminton players Czech expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Badminton coaches {{CzechRepublic-badminton-bio-stub