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 Mixed doubles
1991[3] China Lin Liwen no competition China Huang Yi
China Zhu Yonghong
no competition no competition
1992[4] China Sun Jun China Sun Jun
China Zeng Yu
1993[5] South Korea Sung Han-kook South Korea Kim Moon-soo
South Korea Park Joo-bong
1994 Not held
1995[6] no competition no competition Malaysia Khoo Boo Hock
Malaysia Lee Chee Leong
no competition no competition
1996[7] China Chen Hong China Wu Changqing
China Zhang Jun
1997 Not held
1998[8] Iran Morteza Validarvi Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova Iran Alireza Shafiei
Iran Bahador Zakizadeh
Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova
Turkmenistan Victoria Yefremova
no competition
1999[9] Iran Bahador Zakizadeh Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Iran Afshin Bozorgzadeh
Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva
Azerbaijan Sevinghe Akchundova
2000 Not held
2001[10] Japan Shōji Satō Azerbaijan Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Japan Shōji Satō
Japan Sho Sasaki
Iran Setayesh Afshordi
Iran Behnaz Przamanbin
no competition
2002[11] Iran Golam Reza Bagheri Iran Behnaz Pirzamanbin Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Iran Farhad Soleimani
2003[12] Japan Shōji Satō Kazakhstan Saule Kustavletova Japan Yuichi Ikeda
Japan Shōji Satō
Armenia Ruzanna Hakobyan
Armenia Anna Nazaryan
2004[13] Singapore Li Li Hong Kong Liu Kwok Wa
Hong Kong Albertus Susanto Njoto
Singapore Jiang Yanmei
Singapore Li Yujia
2005[14] Singapore Erwin Djohan Singapore Erwin Djohan
Singapore Hendra Wijaya
Singapore Frances Liu
Singapore Shinta Mulia Sari
2006[15] Pakistan Wajid Ali Chaudhry Sweden Behnaz Pirzamanbein Iran Ali Shahhoseini
Iran Golam Reza Bagheri
Turkey Gülcin Köse
Turkey Nursel Aydoğmuş
2007[16] Algeria Nabil Lasmari Portugal Ana Moura Iran Ali Shahhoseini
Iran Nikzad Shiri
Iran Negin Amiripour
Iran Sahar Zamanian
2008[17] Malaysia Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Italy Agnese Allegrini Malaysia Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif
Malaysia Indra Mawan Vountus
Malaysia Norshahliza Baharum
Malaysia Lim Yin Loo
2009[18] Iran Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi Turkey Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella Iran Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi
Iran Ali Shahhosseini
Turkey Ezgi Epice
Turkey Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
2010[19] India B. Sai Praneeth Japan Rie Eto India B. Sai Praneeth
India Pranav Chopra
Japan Rie Eto
Japan Yu Wakita
2011[20] Indonesia Tommy Sugiarto Canada Nicole Grether Malaysia Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman
Malaysia Mohd Razif Abdul Latif
Sri Lanka Achini Ratnasiri
Sri Lanka Upuli Weerasinghe
2012[21] Sri Lanka Niluka Karunaratne Turkey Neslihan Yiğit Indonesia Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Indonesia Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra
Japan Rie Eto
Japan Yu Wakita
2013[22] Indonesia Riyanto Subagja Indonesia Wahyu Nayaka
Indonesia Ade Yusuf Santoso
Malaysia Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Malaysia Soong Fie Cho
2014[23] India Sourabh Varma Malaysia Tee Jing Yi Chinese Taipei Chen Hung-ling
Chinese Taipei Lu Chia-pin
2015[24] Austria David Obernosterer Bulgaria Linda Zetchiri Malaysia Tai An Khang
Malaysia Yew Hong Kheng
Turkey Özge Bayrak
Turkey Neslihan Yiğit
2016[25] Cancelled
2017[26] Indonesia Panji Ahmad Maulana Russia Ksenia Polikarpova India Arjun M. R.
India Ramchandran Shlok
Singapore Ren-ne Ong
Singapore Crystal Wong
no competition
2018[27] Vietnam Phạm Cao Cường Malaysia Thinaah Muralitharan India Alwin Francis
India K. Nandagopal
Iran Setayesh Abdolkarimi
Iran Haleh Hamedanchi
2019[28] Thailand Kunlavut Vitidsarn Thailand Supanida Katethong Indonesia Adnan Maulana
Indonesia Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika
Indonesia Nita Violina Marwah
Indonesia Putri Syaikah
2020[29] Canada Xiaodong Sheng United States Crystal Pan Iran Soroush Eskandari
Iran Amir Jabbari
Iran Nasim Safaei
Iran Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh
2021[30] Cancelled[note 1]
2022[31] India Meiraba Luwang Maisnam India Tasnim Mir Indonesia Abiyyu Fauzan Majid
Indonesia Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy
Russia Ekaterina Malkova
Russia Anastasiia Shapovalova
no competition
2023[32] Indonesia Syabda Perkasa Belawa India Tanya Hemanth Philippines Christian Bernardo
Philippines Alvin Morada
Indonesia Jesita Putri Miantoro
Indonesia Febi Setianingrum
Malaysia Chen Tang Jie
Malaysia Toh Ee Wei
2024[33]


  1. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

Performances by nation

As of the 2023 edition
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1  Iran 4 1 7 5 17
2  Malaysia 1 2 4 3 1 11
3  Indonesia 4 4 2 10
4  India 3 2 3 8
 Japan 3 1 2 2 8
6  Singapore 1 2 1 3 7
7  China 3 3 6
 Turkey 3 3 6
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
 Pakistan 1 1
 Philippines 1 1
 Portugal 1 1
 Sweden 1 1
 United States 1 1
 Vietnam 1 1
29  Turkmenistan 0.5 0.5
Total 27 23 28 23 1 102

References