Jan Ø. Jørgensen

This article is about the Danish badminton player Jan Ø. Jørgensen. For the Danish badminton player of the same name, see Jan Jørgensen .

Jan Ø. Jørgensen
Jørgensen at the 2013 French Open in Paris
Country:	Denmark
Date of birth:	December 31, 1987
Place of birth:	Aalborg
Size:	185 cm
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right
BWF ID:	54431
Men's singles
Career record:	356: 179
Career title:	13
Highest ranking:	2 (January 22, 2015)
Current placement:	5
Men's doubles
Career record:	2: 1
Medals
Country: Denmark  Badminton team BWF - world championships bronze Jakarta 2015 singles Thomas Cup gold Kunshan 2016 Men's bronze Wuhan 2012 Men's BE - European Championships gold Kazan 2014 singles silver Manchester 2010 singles silver La Roche-sur-Yon 2016 singles bronze Herning 2008 singles bronze Karlskrona 2012 singles Sudirman Cup bronze Kuala Lumpur 2013 Mixed BE - European Team Championship gold Almere 2008 Men's gold Liverpool 2009 Mixed gold Warsaw 2010 Men's gold Amsterdam 2011 Mixed gold Amsterdam 2012 Men's gold Lions 2015 Mixed gold Kazan 2016 Men's
BWF profile
As of May 22, 2016

Jan Østergaard Jørgensen (born December 31, 1987 in Aalborg , Denmark ) is a Danish badminton player .

Career

Jørgensen's greatest successes so far are winning the Denmark Open 2010 , the Indonesia Open 2014 , the French Open 2013, the 2014 European Championship and the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta in men's singles. He also reached the finals at the All England 2015 , the China Open 2009 and the Indonesia Open 2015 . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London he won the group stage over Misha Zilberman with 21:13, 21:12 and Zi Liang Derek Wong with 21:17, 21:14, but failed in the next round in the round of 16 against Lee Hyun-il with 17:21, 13:21. At the World Championships in Hyderabad in 2009 and in Guangzhou in 2013 , he reached the quarter-finals.

In 2002 and 2006 Jørgensen won two junior titles in his native Denmark. In the last year he also won at the Czech International , a year later at the Hungarian International . In 2008 he won bronze at the European Championships , two years later he rose to silver. In the year between the two championships, he won the Swedish International Stockholm and the Badminton Open Saarbrücken . In addition, he won the Denmark International in 2011 and the German Open in 2015 .

In 2009 , 2011 and 2012 he won the Copenhagen Masters invitation tournament .

Private

Jan Ø. Jørgensen is in a relationship with the Danish handball player Stine Jørgensen .

Achievements in tables

Men's singles

Jørgensen at the 2013 French Open in Paris

result	year	Place / tournament	opponent	Result
Olympic games
9./16.	2012	London	Lee Hyun-il	17:21, 13:21
BWF - world championships
bronze	2015	Jakarta	Lee Chong Wei	7:21, 19:21
5th / 8th	2009	Hyderabad	Taufik Hidayat	19:21, 19:21
5th / 8th	2013	Guangzhou	Tiến Minh Nguyễn	8:21, 21:17, 20:22
9./16.	2014	Copenhagen	Chou Tien-Chen	9:21, 4: 9 task
17./32.	2010	Paris	Rajiv Ouseph	12:21, 23:25
BE - European Championships
gold	2014	Kazan	Rajiv Ouseph	21:18, 21:10
silver	2010	Manchester	Peter Høeg Gade	14:21, 11:21
silver	2016	La Roche-sur-Yon	Viktor Axelsen	11:21, 16:21
bronze	2008	Herning	Kenneth Jonassen	12:21, 9:21
bronze	2012	Karlskrona	Marc Zwiebler	19:21, 15:21
BWF World Superseries Finals
3rd / 4th	2013	Kuala Lumpur	Lee Chong Wei	14:21, 16:21
3rd / 4th	2014	Dubai	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	11:21, 17:21
3rd / 4th	[2]2015	Dubai	Kento Momota	19:21, 18:21
5th / 6th	2010	Taipei	Lee Chong Wei	18:21, 13:21
7th / 8th	2009	Johor Bahru	Boonsak Ponsana	9:21, 18:21
BWF World Superseries Premier
1.	2014	Indonesia Open	Ken'ichi Tago	21:18, 21:18
2.	2015	All of England	Chen Long	21:15, 17:21, 15:21
2.	[2]2015	Indonesia Open	Kento Momota	21:16, 19:21, 7:21
BWF World Superseries
2.	2009	China Open	Lin Dan	12:21, 12:21
1.	2010	Denmark Open	Taufik Hidayat	21:19, 21:19
1.	2013	French Open	Ken'ichi Tago	21:19, 23:21
BWF Grand Prix Gold
1.	2015	German Open	Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka	21:12, 21:13
BWF Grand Prix
1.	2009	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Eric Pang	12:21, 21:13, 21:15
International tournaments
1.	2009	Copenhagen Masters	Dicky Palyama	21: 7, 21:14
1.	2011	Copenhagen Masters	Peter Høeg Gade	14:21, 25:23, 22:20
1.	2012	Copenhagen Masters	Hu Yun	21:12, 21:11
2.	2014	Copenhagen Masters	Viktor Axelsen	20:22, 9:21
Badminton Europe Circuit
1.	2006	Czech International	Peter Mikkelsen	21:18, 21:15
2.	2006	Irish International	Jens-Kristian Leth	20:22, 21:23
1.	2007	Hungarian International	Ville Lång	21: 6, 21: 5
2.	2008	Swedish International Stockholm	Marc Zwiebler	13:21, 21:23
1.	2009	Swedish International Stockholm	Dicky Palyama	16:21, 22:20, 21:17
1.	2011	Denmark International	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	21:15, 21:12

Web links

Commons : Jan Ø. Jørgensen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Profile bwfworldsuperseries.com (English)
• Profile yonex.com (English)
• Profile badminton.dk (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bt.dk: Travle sportskærester: Håndbold-pigen og badminton-stjernens held-og-lykke-kys , accessed on December 27, 2013
2. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=CA160B94-64E2-4C8A-8E18-9E269E9A46EB&draw=10
3. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=76625781-4100-42A2-AEB9-212D44C17A08&draw=10