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Pullela
Gopichand
Pullela Gopichand was born on November 16, 1973
in Nagandla. He is an Indian Badminton player.
He won the All-England Open Badminton
Championship in 2001 defeating Chen Hong of
China in the finals. He became the second Indian
to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone, who
won it in 1980. He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna Award for the year 2000-2001. But
later on, his game was affected due to injuries
and his ranking dropped to 126 in the year 2003.
In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Shri. |
