Sun Junjie (; born 8 August 1985) is a Chinese

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player.

Career

Sun Junjie came from the badminton family. His mother was a member of the Jiangsu provincial team, and his father

Sun Zhian Sun Zhian (; born 1956) is a Chinese former badminton player and coach. He is the gold medalist in World Games in 1981 and a former World Champion. Early life and career Sun Zhian was born in 1956 in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. In 1970, 14-year ...

, was a Jiangsu coach. He started practicing badminton at the age of ten for losing his weight. In 2002, he entered the national second team, participated at the Asian and World Junior Championships, winning a boys' team bronze medal in

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, boys' doubles bronze and mixed team gold at the World Junior Championships. Sun entered the national first team in 2004. He was selected to join the Badminton Branch of Federation University Sports of China competed at the 2008 World University Badminton Championships held in

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, Portugal, helped the team clinch the gold medal, also won the bronze medals in the men's and mixed doubles event. He was part of the national team that won the men's team gold medal at the

2009 East Asian Games The 2009 East Asian Games, officially known as the V East Asian Games, was an international multi-sport event that hosted by Hong Kong, between 5 December and 13 December 2009. A total of 2,377 athletes from 9 east asia, East Asian national compet ...

in Hong Kong, and also the

2009 Sudirman Cup The 2009 Sudirman Cup (World Mixed Team Badminton Championships) was held in the Guangzhou Gymnasium in China from May 10 to May 17, 2009, having been arranged in December 2005. It was the eleventh contest. Guangzhou has a tradition of staging b ...

in Guangzhou.

Achievements

World Junior Championships

''Boys' doubles''

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in

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, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ...

(BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end. ''Men's doubles'' :

BWF Superseries Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series ...

tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament :

BWF Superseries The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007. Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, S ...

tournament

IBF International

''Mixed doubles''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sun, Junjie 1985 births Living people Badminton players from Jiangsu Chinese male badminton players