Krysten Coombs

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Krysten Coombs
Parabadminton

Personal information
Type of disability (class): SH6
Nationality: EnglandEngland England
Birthday: November 15, 1990
Place of birth: Brighton
Medals
last change: 2020-02-15

Krysten Coombs (born November 15, 1990 in Brighton , East Sussex , United Kingdom ) is an English badminton player . He starts in parabadminton in the starting class SH6 in singles and doubles. Coombs is preparing to participate in the Summer Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo before.

Athletic career

Krysten Coombs came through the Dwarf Sports Association UK for sport and initially Para table tennis and Parabadminton operated. He later gave preference to badminton, but continues to play table tennis at the national level. Coombs reached the quarter-finals in mixed competition with his partner Jennifer Greasley at his first international championship, the European Badminton Championship for the disabled in Dortmund in 2012 . In 2014 at the European Championships in Murcia , Coombs won a bronze medal in singles and also bronze in doubles with Jack Shephard . At the 2015 World Disabled Badminton Championship in Stoke Mandeville , Coombs again won bronze in singles and gold in doubles with Shephard. At the 2016 European Championships in Beek , Coombs won the singles and Shephard doubles titles. At the 2017 World Cup in Ulsan , South Korea , Coombs won silver in the individual final against and in the double final with Shephard. In 2018 at the European Championships in Rodez , Coombs reached second place in singles again, but won gold in doubles with Shepard. The Badminton World Championship for the disabled in Basel in 2019 ended for Coombs in the round of 16 in the singles and in the group stage in the doubles.

Like his twin partner Jack Shephard, Coombs is aiming to take part in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo , which will feature Parabadminton competitions for the first time . There is likely only one place available for British athletes in the SH6 class, which Shephard and Coombs will compete for as the two leaders in the world rankings.

Krysten Coombs appeared in a supporting role in the fourth season of the American television series Game of Thrones in 2014 . He played a court jester who parodied Lord Balon Greyfriends (episode The Lion and the Rose ). In the same year he starred in the British film Save Christmas! an elf.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Devon's Coombs wins more medals. In: BBC Sport . September 9, 2008, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Shephard and Coombs: Teammates and rivals. In: paralympic.org. March 27, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Katie Falkingham: World Para-badminton Championships: Jack Shephard & Krysten Coombs battle for Paralympic qualification. In: BBC Sport . August 19, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Krysten Coombs. In: badmintonengland.co.uk. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Lion and the Rose in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ↑ Save Christmas! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Coombs, Krysten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , East Sussex , United Kingdom