Kevin James Dennerly-Minturn (born 18 May 1989) is a New Zealand

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player. In 2014, he competed at the

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, Scotland.

Career

Dennerly-Minturn is an Auckland player on the international circuit and is also from the College Rifles badminton club. He comes from a very active and sporting family. From an early age he was gifted at a number of sports including cricket but pursued his passion for badminton and is now a key feature of the New Zealand doubles set up. He is based in

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for most of the year playing and training in the tough European environment. In 2008, he was the semi-finals in the men's and mixed doubles event at the Oceania Championships and won bronze. He also won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2015 in the men's doubles event partnered with

Oliver Leydon-Davis Oliver Leydon-Davis (born 10 May 1990) is a New Zealand badminton player. He won the Oceania Championships title in the mixed doubles in 2014, and in the men's doubles in 2020. Achievements Oceania Championships ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixe ...

. Partner with Oliver, he won the 2012

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and 2013 Mexico International tournaments. In the mixed doubles, he won the Waikato International tournament teamed up with Susannah Leydon-Davis. In 2017, he won the silver medal at the Oceania Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Niccolo Tagle. In the mixed doubles event, he teamed-up with Danielle Tahuri, and they reach the semi-final round but was defeated by the top seeds from Australia. In recent times Kevin has undertaken endurance sports, culminating in the completion of the Western Australia Ironman with a time of 16 hours 43 minutes.

Achievements

Oceania Championships

''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed 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 :

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

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