The Most Famous

BADMINTON PLAYERS from France

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This page contains a list of the greatest French Badminton Players. The pantheon dataset contains 117 Badminton Players, 3 of which were born in France. This makes France the birth place of the 17th most number of Badminton Players behind Germany, and Spain.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary French Badminton Players of all time. This list of famous French Badminton Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Brice Leverdez (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 35.40, Brice Leverdez is the most famous French Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 11 different languages on wikipedia.

Brice Leverdez (born 9 April 1986) is a French badminton player. He was a champion at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, won a silver medal at the 2015 European Games, and a bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships.

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2. Thom Gicquel (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 30.86, Thom Gicquel is the 2nd most famous French Badminton Player.  His biography has been translated into 10 different languages.

Thom Mark Gicquel (born 12 January 1999) is a French badminton player. Competing in the mixed doubles, he was able to reach the top 10 of the BWF world rankings with his partner Delphine Delrue. Together with Delrue, he won the gold medal in the 2024 European Championships; silver in the 2022 European Championships, and 2023 European Games; and also bronze in the 2019 European Games. Gicquel's achievements began when he still in a young age. He claimed the gold medals at the 2017 European Junior Championships in the mixed team and the boys' doubles events, and then when he had just risen to senior level, he won the men's doubles gold in the 2018 Mediterranean Games.

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3. Delphine Delrue (b. 1998)

With an HPI of 30.48, Delphine Delrue is the 3rd most famous French Badminton Player.  Her biography has been translated into 9 different languages.

Delphine Aurore Delrue (born 6 November 1998) is a French badminton player. Delrue started playing badminton at aged seven, and she affiliate with the USEE Badminton club in 2006. Delrue was selected to join the national team in INSEP in 2016. In 2015, she became the runner-up of European University Championships in the women's doubles and mixed doubles events. In 2016, she won French National Badminton Championships in the women's doubles event with her partner Léa Palermo. She also the runner-up at the Orléans International in the women's doubles event and Swiss International in the mixed doubles event. In 2017, she became the runner-up at the Estonian International partnered with Léa Palermo. She competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, clinched the women's doubles gold with Palermo. In 2019, she captured a bronze medal at the European Games in the mixed doubles event with Thom Gicquel. Delrue and Gicquel reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World ranking on 9 March 2021. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

People

Pantheon has 3 people classified as French badminton players born between 1986 and 1999. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living French badminton players include Brice Leverdez, Thom Gicquel, and Delphine Delrue. As of April 2024, 3 new French badminton players have been added to Pantheon including Brice Leverdez, Thom Gicquel, and Delphine Delrue.

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