Kunlavut Vitidsarn | |
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Personal information | |
Nickname(s) | View Three-Game God |
Country | Thailand |
Born | Chonburi, Thailand[1] | 11 May 2001
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Handedness | Right |
Coach | Patapol Ngernsrisuk[2] |
Men's singles | |
Career record | 320 wins, 100 losses |
Highest ranking | 3 (6 June 2023) |
Current ranking | 6 (15 October 2024) |
Medal record | |
BWF profile |
Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thai: กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์; simply known as View (Thai: วิว); born 11 May 2001) is a Thai badminton player.[3] He is the current men's singles World Champion as he won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships,[4] and a silver medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games.[5] He was also three-times World Junior champion, winning in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[6][7][8] He is nicknamed the "Three-Game God" because his playing style requires him to play three games long and always win in the end.[9]
Vitidsarn became the first men's singles player to win three World Junior Championships titles, joining Ratchanok Intanon and Chen Qingchen as a three-time winner of the World Junior title in the same discipline.[10] He claimed the gold medal at the Asian Junior Championships in 2019, where he previously won a silver in 2018 and bronze in 2017.[11] Vitidsarn participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, and was part of the team Omega took the silver medal in the mixed team event.[12] He was named the 2020/2021 Eddy Choong Most Promising Player.[13]
In the senior category, Vitidsarn won the silver medal at the 2022 World Championships and, in the following year, the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.[14] He became the first Thai player to win the World Championships title in the men's singles category.[4] Vitidsarn clinched the gold medal at the 2021 SEA Games.[15] He reached a career high of world number 3 in June 2023.[16]