(1998-09-18) 18 September 1998 (age 25) Bangkok, Thailand
Height
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Handedness
Right
Men's singles
Career record
169 wins, 154 losses
Highest ranking
12 (22 October 2019)
Current ranking
33 (17 October 2023)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing Thailand
World Championships
2019 Basel
Men's singles
Sudirman Cup
2019 Nanning
Mixed team
SEA Games
2017 Kuala Lumpur
Men's team
2019 Philippines
Men's singles
2019 Philippines
Men's team
World Junior Championships
2014 Alor Setar
Mixed team
2016 Bilbao
Boys' singles
2016 Bilbao
Mixed team
Asia Junior Championships
2016 Bangkok
Mixed team
BWF profile
Kantaphon Wangcharoen (Thai: กันตภณ หวังเจริญ; born 18 September 1998) is a Thai badminton player.[1] At the young age, Wangcharoen became the runner-up in the senior tournament 2014 Singapore International in the men's singles event after losing the match because of foot injury.[2] Wangcharoen clinched the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in the boys' singles event,[3] also part of the junior team that won the mixed team bronze in 2014 and 2016, and Asian mixed team bronze in 2016.
Wangcharoen was a member of the Thailand national team that won the bronze medals at the 2017, 2019 SEA Games and 2019 Sudirman Cup. He also the finalist at the BWF Grand Prix Gold event 2017 Thailand Masters, and won the 2017 National Championships title.[4]
At the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, Wangcharoen was criticized by the Thai media after he mocked and made fun of Indonesian fans in front of them by using offensive Thai language. He had recorded and published the offensive video clip on his personal Instagram account himself.[5]
He ended the 2018 BWF season by qualified to compete at the World Tour Finals and catapulted him to a career-best world ranking of no. 15 at that year.[6] He won the bronze medal at the 2019 BWF World Championships, becoming the first ever Thai player to win a World Championships medal in the men's singles event.[7]
^"Players: Kantaphon Wangcharoen". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
^"แบดสาวที.ไทยแลนด์ซิวทองที่สิงคโปร์" (in Thai). Independent News Network. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
^""พรปวีณ์"ตบลิ่วชิงขนไก่ชิงแชมป์เยาวชนโลก" (in Thai). Siam Sport. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
^"กันตภณ หวังเจริญ..ดาวรุ่งพุ่งแรงแห่งปีของแบดมินตันไทย" (in Thai). Badminton Thai Today. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
KantaphonWangcharoen (Thai: กันตภณ หวังเจริญ; born 18 September 1998) is a Thai badminton player. At the young age, Wangcharoen became the runner-up in...
Austria's Luka Wraber (world no. 93) 21–4, 21–8, and Thailand's KantaphonWangcharoen (world no. 20), the sixteenth seed, 21–4, 21–7. In the quarter-finals...
reached the semifinals of the Thailand Masters, where he lost to KantaphonWangcharoen. In September 2017, he won his first senior title at the Polish...
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750 event in November. He had received 2 walkovers, one against KantaphonWangcharoen and the other being a walkover due to his opponent, Shesar Hiren...
association since 2017. In Thailand Santoso was instrumental in KantaphonWangcharoen becoming the first Thai player to win a World Championship medal...
Watanabe and Arisa Higashino and the Thai men's singles player KantaphonWangcharoen, became the first players from their countries that won medals in...
Indonesia. In the individual event, The host country Thai boys' KantaphonWangcharoen, and girls' Pornpawee Chochuwong were the top seeds. China's pairs...
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