Mark Caljouw (born 25 January 1995) is a Dutch

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player. He started playing badminton aged eight, at BC Randstad in Rijswijk.

Career

Caljouw was selected to join the

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in 2008, and made a debut in international senior tournament in 2012. Caljouw competed at the 2013 European Junior Championships in

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, Turkey, winning a silver medal in the boys' singles event, and also a bronze medal in the mixed team event. He was selected by

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to join the Player Development Plan "Future Stars". Caljouw won the men's singles

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title in 2017, beating defending champion Erik Meijs in the semi-finals and first seeded Nick Fransman in the final. He defended the title in 2018, after beating Fransman, and also in 2019 beating Aram Mahmoud in the final and again in 2020 and 2022, each time beating youngster Joran Kweekel in the final. He reached the semi-finals of the Dutch Open and the Scottish Open both twice in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, he also reached the semi-final of the Bitburger Open in Germany. In 2018 he won his first big title the Orléans Masters then a BWF Tour 100 event, after defending the title he won the previous year when the event was still an International Challenge event. In 2018, he also reached the final of the US Open, an BWF Tour 300 event. In 2019 he won the Austrian Open and the Kharkiv International, both International Challenge events.

Achievements

European Junior Championships

''Boys' singles''

BWF World Tour (1 title, 3 runners-up)

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(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 2 runner-up)

''Men's singles'' :

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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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caljouw, Mark 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Rijswijk Dutch male badminton players Badminton players at the 2019 European Games Badminton players at the 2023 European Games European Games competitors for the Netherlands Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for the Netherlands 21st-century Dutch sportsmen