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Toma Junior Popov
French badminton player (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Toma Junior Popov (born 29 September 1998) is a French badminton player.[1][2] Partnered with his brother Christo Popov, he won the men's doubles gold at the 2025 European Championships.[3] He competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and claimed the men's singles bronze medal.[4]
In the juniors, Popov won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys' singles event.[5] Popov made history as the first non-Danish male player to win a European Junior team gold as well as the men's singles and doubles in 2017. He joined Peter Gade, Jim Laugesen, and Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen as the only men to have ever completed the treble.[6]
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Early and personal life
Born in Sofia, Popov came from a badminton family. His father, Thomas, is a former Bulgarian and French national player. His brother, Christo Popov, also plays badminton. He started to play when he was 8 with neighbour and won his school championship at age of 9. Both of them trained at the Fos-sur-Mer club.[7]
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European Games
Men's singles
Men's doubles
European Championships
Men's singles
Men's doubles
Mediterranean Games
Men's singles
European Junior Championships
Boys' singles
Boys' doubles
BWF World Tour (4 titles, 3 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[8] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the BWF World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.[9]
Men's singles
Men's doubles
BWF International Challenge/Series (10 titles, 1 runner-up)
Men's singles
Men's doubles
BWF Junior International (9 titles, 4 runners-up)
Boys' singles
Boys' doubles
- BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
- BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
- BWF Junior International Series tournament
- BWF Junior Future Series tournament
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