Iran Fajr International

The Iran Fajr International in badminton is an international open held in Tehran, Iran and a part of the Fajr decade festival.[1] This tournament is one of the oldest tournament in the Western Asia which was formerly known as Ten Days of Dawn in commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a ten-day celebration of Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran.[2]

Previous winners

Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles Ref
1991 Lin Liwen No competition Huang Yi
Zhu Yonghong
No competition No competition [3][4]
1992 Sun Jun Sun Jun
Zeng Yu
[5]
1993 Sung Han-kook Kim Moon-soo
Park Joo-bong
[6]
1994 Roslin Hashim No data [7]
1995 Ismail Saman Khoo Boo Hock
Lee Chee Leong
[8][9]
1996 Chen Hong Wu Changqing
Zhang Jun
[10]
1997 Morteza Validarvi Ali Reza Shafiee
Saed Bahador Zakizadeh
[11]
1998 Saule Kustavletova Saule Kustavletova
Victoria Yefremova
[12]
1999 Saed Bahador Zakizadeh Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Ali Shahhosseini
Afshin Bozorgzadeh
Nargiz Mekchtiyeva
Sevinghe Akchundova
[13]
2000 Not held
2001 Shōji Satō Nargiz Mekchtiyeva Shōji Satō
Sho Sasaki
Setayesh Afshordi
Behnaz Przamanbin
No competition [14]
2002 Golam Reza Bagheri Behnaz Pirzamanbin Ali Shahhosseini
Farhad Soleimani
[15]
2003 Shōji Satō Saule Kustavletova Yuichi Ikeda
Shōji Satō
Ruzanna Hakobyan
Anna Nazaryan
[16]
2004 Li Li Liu Kwok Wa
Albertus Susanto Njoto
Jiang Yanmei
Li Yujia
[17]
2005 Erwin Djohan Erwin Djohan
Hendra Wijaya
Frances Liu
Shinta Mulia Sari
[18]
2006 Wajid Ali Chaudhry Behnaz Pirzamanbein Ali Shahhoseini
Golam Reza Bagheri
Gülcin Köse
Nursel Aydoğmuş
[19]
2007 Nabil Lasmari Ana Moura Ali Shahhoseini
Nikzad Shiri
Negin Amiripour
Sahar Zamanian
[20]
2008 Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Agnese Allegrini Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif
Indra Mawan Vountus
Norshahliza Baharum
Lim Yin Loo
[21]
2009 Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella Mohammad Reza Kheradmandi
Ali Shahhosseini
Ezgi Epice
Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella
[22]
2010 B. Sai Praneeth Rie Eto B. Sai Praneeth
Pranav Chopra
Rie Eto
Yu Wakita
[23]
2011 Tommy Sugiarto Nicole Grether Mohd Razif Abdul Rahman
Mohd Razif Abdul Latif
Achini Ratnasiri
Upuli Weerasinghe
[24]
2012 Niluka Karunaratne Neslihan Yiğit Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Agripina Prima Rahmanto Putra
Rie Eto
Yu Wakita
[25]
2013 Riyanto Subagja Wahyu Nayaka
Ade Yusuf Santoso
Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Soong Fie Cho
[26]
2014 Sourabh Varma Tee Jing Yi Chen Hung-ling
Lu Chia-pin
[27]
2015 David Obernosterer Linda Zetchiri Tai An Khang
Yew Hong Kheng
Özge Bayrak
Neslihan Yiğit
[28]
2016 Cancelled [29]
2017 Panji Ahmad Maulana Ksenia Polikarpova Arjun M. R.
Ramchandran Shlok
Ren-ne Ong
Crystal Wong
No competition [30]
2018 Phạm Cao Cường Thinaah Muralitharan Alwin Francis
K. Nandagopal
Setayesh Abdolkarimi
Haleh Hamedanchi
[31]
2019 Kunlavut Vitidsarn Supanida Katethong Adnan Maulana
Ghifari Anandaffa Prihardika
Nita Violina Marwah
Putri Syaikah
[32]
2020 Xiaodong Sheng Crystal Pan Soroush Eskandari
Amir Jabbari
Nasim Safaei
Hannaneh Yaghoubzadeh
[33]
2021 Cancelled[note 1] [34]
2022 Meiraba Maisnam Tasnim Mir Abiyyu Fauzan Majid
Ferdian Mahardika Ranialdy
Ekaterina Malkova
Anastasiia Shapovalova
No competition [35]
2023 Syabda Perkasa Belawa Tanya Hemanth Christian Bernardo
Alvin Morada
Jesita Putri Miantoro
Febi Setianingrum
Chen Tang Jie
Toh Ee Wei
[36]
2024 Nguyễn Hải Đăng Lo Sin Yan Krishna Prasad Garaga
K. Sai Pratheek
Jaqueline Lima
Sâmia Lima
Sathish Karunakaran
Aadya Variyath
[37]
2025 Manraj Singh Neslihan Arın M. R. Arjun
Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala
Gabriela Stoeva
Stefani Stoeva
Ishaan Bhatnagar
Srinidhi Narayanan
[38]
  1. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 3 to 7 February, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.

Performances by nation

As of the 2025 edition
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1  Iran 5 1 8 5 19
2  India 4 2 5 2 13
 Malaysia 3 2 4 3 1 13
4  Indonesia 4 4 2 10
5  Japan 3 1 2 2 8
6  Singapore 1 2 1 3 7
 Turkey 4 3 7
8  China 3 3 6
9  Azerbaijan 2 1 3
10  Kazakhstan 2 0.5 2.5
11  Bulgaria 1 1 2
 Canada 1 1 2
 Hong Kong 1 1 2
 Russia 1 1 2
 South Korea 1 1 2
 Sri Lanka 1 1 2
 Thailand 1 1 2
 Vietnam 2 2
19  Armenia 1 1
 Austria 1 1
 Brazil 1 1
 Chinese Taipei 1 1
 France 1 1
 Italy 1 1
 Pakistan 1 1
 Philippines 1 1
 Portugal 1 1
 Sweden 1 1
 United States 1 1
30  Turkmenistan 0.5 0.5
Total 32 25 31 25 3 116

References

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  37. ^ "32nd Iran Fajr International Challenge 2024 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
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