Iran Fajr International

The Iran Fajr International in badminton is an international open held in Tehran, Iran and a part of the Fajr decade festival.[1] This tournament is one of the eldest tournament in the Western Asia which was formerly known as Ten Days of Dawn in commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a ten-day celebration of Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran.[2]

Previous winners
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles
1991 Lin Liwen no competition Huang Yi
Zhu Yonghong		 no competition
1992 Sun Jun Sun Jun
Zeng Yu
1993 Sung Han-kook Kim Moon-soo
Park Joo-bong
1995 no competition Khoo Boo Hock
Lee Chee Leong
1996 Chen Hong Wu Changqing
Zhang Jun
1998 Morteza Validarvi Saule Kustavletova Alireza Shafiei
Bahador Zakizadeh		 Saule Kustavletova
Victoria Yefremova
1999 Bahador Zakizadeh Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Ali Shahhosseini
Afshin Bozorgzadeh		 Nargiz Mekchtiyeva
Sevinghe Akchundova
2001 Shōji Satō Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Shōji Satō
Sho Sasaki		 Setayesh Afshordi
Behnaz Przamanbin
2002 Golam Reza Bagheri Behnaz Pirzamanbin Ali Shahhosseini
Farhad Soleimani
2003 Shōji Satō Saule Kustavletova Yuichi Ikeda
Shōji Satō		 Ruzanna Hakobyan
Anna Nazaryan
2004 Li Li Liu Kwok Wa
Albertus Susanto Njoto		 Jiang Yanmei
Li Yujia
2005 Erwin Djohan Erwin Djohan
Hendra Wijaya		 Frances Liu
Shinta Mulia Sari
2006 Golam Reza Bagheri Behnaz Pirzamanbin Jalal Eskandari
Nikzad Shiri		 Negin Amiripour
Behnaz Pirzamanbin
2007 Nabil Lasmari Ana Moura Ali Shahhoseini
Nikzad Shiri		 Negin Amiripour
Sahar Zamanian
2008 Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Agnese Allegrini Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif
Indra Mawan Vountus		 Norshahliza Baharum
Lim Yin Loo
2009 Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi
Ali Shahhosseini		 Ezgi Epice
Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
2010 B. Sai Praneeth Rie Eto B. Sai Praneeth
Pranav Chopra		 Rie Eto
Yu Wakita
2011 Tommy Sugiarto Nicole Grether Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman
Mohd Razif Abdul Latif		 Achini Ratnasiri
Upuli Weerasinghe
2012 Niluka Karunaratne Neslihan Yiğit Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra		 Rie Eto
Yu Wakita
2013 Riyanto Subagja Wahyu Nayaka
Ade Yusuf		 Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Soong Fie Cho
2014 Sourabh Varma Tee Jing Yi Chen Hung-ling
Lu Chia-pin
2015 David Obernosterer Linda Zetchiri Tai An Khang
Yew Hong Kheng		 Özge Bayrak
Neslihan Yiğit
2017 Panji Ahmad Maulana Ksenia Polikarpova Arjun M.R.
Ramchandran Shlok		 Ren-ne Ong
Crystal Wong
2018 Phạm Cao Cường Thinaah Muralitharan Alwin Francis
K. Nandagopal		 Setayesh Abdolkarimi
Haleh Hamedanchi
2019 Kunlavut Vitidsarn Supanida Katethong Adnan Maulana
Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika		 Nita Violina Marwah
Putri Syaikah
2020 Xiaodong Sheng Crystal Pan Soroush Eskandari
Amir Jabbari		 Nasim Safaei
Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh
2021 Cancelled[note 1]
2022 Meiraba Luwang Maisnam Tasnim Mir Abiyyu Fauzan Majid
Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy		 Ekaterina Malkova
Anastasiia Shapovalova
  1. This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

Performances by nation
As of the 2022 edition
Top Nations
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD Total
1  Iran 5 2 7 6 20
2  Malaysia 1 2 4 3 10
3  Indonesia 3 4 1 8
 Japan 3 1 2 2 8
5  India 3 1 3 7
 Singapore 1 2 1 3 7
7  China 3 3 6
8  Turkey 3 2 5
9  Azerbaijan 2 1 3
10  Kazakhstan 2 0.5 2.5
11  Canada 1 1 2
 Russia 1 1 2
 South Korea 1 1 2
 Sri Lanka 1 1 2
 Thailand 1 1 2
16  Armenia 1 1
 Austria 1 1
 Bulgaria 1 1
 Chinese Taipei 1 1
 France 1 1
 Hong Kong 1 1
 Italy 1 1
 Portugal 1 1
 United States 1 1
 Vietnam 1 1
26  Turkmenistan 0.5 0.5
Total 26 22 27 22 97

References
  1. "19 Countries Ready to Participate at Fajr Badminton Competition". www.tasnimnews.com. Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. "Iranians begin 10-Day Dawn celebrations". www.irna.ir. Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
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