Lucas Mazur

Lucas Mazur
Parabadminton

Personal information

Type of disability (class):

SL4

Nationality:

France

Birthday:

November 18, 1997

Medals

Badminton World Cup for the Disabled
	United Kingdom 2015 Stoke Mandeville	Single (SL4)
	Korea South 2017 Ulsan	Single (SL4)
	Switzerland 2019 Basel	Single (SL4)
European Badminton Championship for the disabled
	Spain 2014 Murcia	Single (SL4)
	Spain 2014 Murcia	Double (SL4)
	Netherlands 2016 Beek	Single (SL4)
	Netherlands 2016 Beek	Double (SL4)
	Netherlands 2016 Beek	Mixed (SL4)
	France 2018 Rodez	Single (SL4)
	France 2018 Rodez	Mixed (SL4)
	France 2018 Rodez	Double (SU5)

last change: 2020-02-16

Lucas Mazur (born November 18, 1997 ) is a French badminton player . He is partially paralyzed on his right side as a result of a stroke he suffered at the age of three and starts in parabadminton in the SL4 starting class in singles, doubles and mixed. Mazur aims to participate in the 2020 Summer Paralympics .

Athletic career

Lucas Mazur was active in soccer and rugby before joining parabadminton when he was twelve . He has been a member of the French national team since 2014. At the 2014 European Badminton Championship for the disabled in Murcia , he won gold in singles and bronze in mixed. The following year he was defeated in the individual finals of the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Stoke Mandeville to the Indian Tarun Tarun . At the EM 2016 in Beek , the Netherlands , he won three gold medals, in singles, in doubles with Mathieu Thomas against the duo Marcel Adam and Simón Cruz Mondejar , and in mixed with Faustine Noël . At the 2017 World Cup in Ulsan , he won the gold medal in the individual against Tarun Tarun in the final. In Rodez Mazur was able to defend his European title in singles and in mixed with Noël. In doubles he started in the SU5 class and lost in the final against the Polish-Turkish duo Bartłomiej Mróz and İlker Tuzcu . At the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Basel in 2019 , he defended his world title against Tarun.

Web links

European Para-Badminton Towards Tokyo 2020 - Lucas Mazur (FRA) , video interview on the YouTube channel Badminton Europe (English, 3:19)
Badminton Unlimited, Lucas Mazur , video profile and interview on the YouTube channel BadmintonWorld.tv (English, 5:50)

Individual evidence

↑ Geethanjali Lakshmayya: At the height of his career - Road to Tokyo: Lucas Mazur. In: olympics.bwfbadminton.com. July 16, 2019, accessed December 16, 2018 .
↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
^ Anne Aguer: Colomiers. Championnats d'Europe de parabadminton: Lucas Mazur couvert d'or et d'argent. In: La Dépêche du Midi . November 7, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Mazur, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	french badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1997

[1] Geethanjali Lakshmayya: At the height of his career - Road to Tokyo: Lucas Mazur. In: olympics.bwfbadminton.com. July 16, 2019, accessed December 16, 2018 .

[Tournamentsoftware_BWF-2] Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Accessed February 16, 2020 .

[3] Anne Aguer: Colomiers. Championnats d'Europe de parabadminton: Lucas Mazur couvert d'or et d'argent. In: La Dépêche du Midi . November 7, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 (French).