Dechapol Puavaranukroh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname(s) | Bass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Thailand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Chonburi, Thailand | 20 May 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest ranking | 21 (MD with Kittinupong Kedren 20 July 2017) 1 (XD with Sapsiree Taerattanachai 7 December 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 7 (XD with Sapsiree Taerattanachai 13 August 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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BWF profile |
Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thai: เดชาพล พัววรานุเคราะห์; born 20 May 1997) is a Thai badminton player.[2] He was a gold medalist at the 2014 BWF World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partner Kittinupong Kedren.[3] Dechapol claimed doubles titles at the 2017 SEA Games by winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with Kedren and in the mixed doubles with Sapsiree Taerattanachai.[4] Together with Sapsiree, he won the silver and gold medals at the BWF World Championships in 2019[5] and 2021 respectively, became the first Thai pair who won the world title.[6][7] The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian leg titles in Thailand[8][9] and all 2021 Bali leg titles, thus climbing to world number 1 in the BWF ranking.[10] Dechapol and Sapsiree made history as the first ever Thai players to win a title in the year-end Finals tournaments[11] and rank first in the world ranking.[1]