Ksenia Olegovna Polikarpova (, ; born 11 March 1990) is a
Russia
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Israel
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i Olympic
badminton
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player.
In 2009, she won a bronze medal at the
European Junior Championships in
Milan
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, Italy. She also won bronze medals at the
European Mixed Team Badminton Championships
The European Mixed Team Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe (BE), held once every two years to crown the best badminton mixed national team in Europe.
It was played just before the European Badminton Champions ...
in
2011
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,
2013
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2013 was designated as:
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*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
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, and
2015
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January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
with Russian national badminton team.
Polikarpova became an
Israel
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i citizen in May 2017, and won a gold medal in
2017 Maccabiah Games
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. She competed at the Tokyo
2020 Summer Olympics
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, competing in women's singles, coming in 15th. At the
2022 Maccabiah Games
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, she won a
gold medal in women's doubles and a silver medal in women's singles.
Achievements
European Junior Championships
''Girls' doubles''
BWF Grand Prix (3 runners-up)
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the
Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
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(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
:
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
:
BWF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series (13 titles, 10 runners-up)
''Women's singles''
''Women'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 (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.
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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
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1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
Russian female badminton players
Israeli female badminton players
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Badminton players at the 2015 European Games
Badminton players at the 2019 European Games
Badminton players at the 2023 European Games
European Games competitors for Russia
European Games competitors for Israel
Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games
Competitors at the 2022 Maccabiah Games
Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Israel
Maccabiah Games medalists in badminton
Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players for Israel
21st-century Russian sportswomen
21st-century Israeli sportswomen