Katharina Fink (born 14 November 2002) is an Italian

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 affiliated with SSV Bozen. She won the

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title in 2018. Fink clinched her first senior international title at the 2019

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in the women's doubles event partnered with

Yasmine Hamza Yasmine Hamza (born 16 September 2003) is an Italian badminton player affiliated with SSVBozen. She won the National Championships title in 2019 and 2021. Hamza clinched her first senior international title at the 2019 South Africa International ...

. Together with Hamza , they won the silver medal at the

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Early life

Fink was born into a German-speaking region in Italy called

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. She is half Czech on her mother's side and quarter Swiss, quarter Italian on her father's. Fink began to playing badminton at the age of ten. In her junior career, she trained at the Südtirol Badminton School, and entered top 200 BWF World ranking in the women's doubles event in 2021.

Achievements

Mediterranean Games

''Women's doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 6 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' :

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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 :

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tournament

BWF Junior International

''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles'' : BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament : BWF Junior International Challenge tournament : BWF Junior International Series tournament : BWF Junior Future Series tournament

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fink, Katharina 2002 births Living people Sportspeople from Bolzano Italian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in badminton 21st-century Italian sportswomen