Daniel Bethell

Daniel Bethell Parabadminton
Personal information
Type of disability (class):	SL3
Nationality:	England
Birthday:	January 28, 1996
Place of birth:	Huntingdon
last change: 2020-02-14

Daniel Bethell (born January 28, 1996 in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom ) is an English badminton player . He suffers from infantile cerebral palsy and starts in Parabadminton in the starting class SL3 in singles and doubles. He is preparing to take part in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo .

Athletic career

Daniel Bethell started playing badminton when he was 12 years old, including tournaments for able-bodied players on a regional level. At his first international championship, the 2014 European Badminton Championship for the disabled in Murcia , he won a gold medal in the singles final against Simón Cruz Mondejar . In doubles he and Bobby Griffin lost to the later European champions Mondejar and Jan-Niklas Pott in the semifinals. In the mixed final he lost to the duo Griffin and Helle Sofie Sagøy with Julie Thrane . The following year he won the Singles, Doubles with Bobby Griffin and Mixed with Julie Thrane Bronze at the World Disabled Badminton Championships in Stoke Mandeville . At the European Championships in Beek in 2016 and in Rodez in 2018 , Bethell defended his individual title and won bronze in doubles with Griffin. At the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Basel in 2019 , Bethell won silver in the individual.

Daniel Bethell is studying international commercial law at the University of Bristol .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Player profiles. In: ebad.org.uk. Accessed February 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Daniel Bethell. In: badmintonengland.co.uk. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .