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Toby Penty: English Badminton Career

Toby Penty is a retired English badminton player born on August 12, 1992, who won multiple national and international titles, including the U-19 English National Championships in 2011 and the Swedish International tournament in 2017. He competed in major events like the European Games and the Commonwealth Games, and announced his retirement on September 6, 2022, after participating in the 2022 BWF World Championships. Penty has also faced personal challenges, including a diagnosis of alopecia that led to the loss of all his body hair since November 2018.

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Toby Penty: English Badminton Career

Toby Penty is a retired English badminton player born on August 12, 1992, who won multiple national and international titles, including the U-19 English National Championships in 2011 and the Swedish International tournament in 2017. He competed in major events like the European Games and the Commonwealth Games, and announced his retirement on September 6, 2022, after participating in the 2022 BWF World Championships. Penty has also faced personal challenges, including a diagnosis of alopecia that led to the loss of all his body hair since November 2018.

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Toby Penty

Toby Penty (born 12 August 1992) is a retired English


badminton player.[2][3] He started playing badminton at Toby Penty
aged 9, and won U-19 English National Personal information
Championships in 2011. In 2010, he won junior titles Country England
in the Netherlands and Switzerland.[4] In 2017, he won Born 12 August 1992
the Swedish International tournament in the men's Walton-on-Thames,
singles event.[5] England

Penty competed at the 2019 European Games, 2020 Residence Milton Keynes, England
Olympic Games and at the 2022 Commonwealth Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Games.[6][7] Years active 2012–2022
Retired 6 September 2022[1]
Penty announced his retirement on 6 September 2022.
The 2022 BWF World Championships was his last Handedness Left
tournament.[1][8] Coach Jakob Hoi
Stuart Wardell
Men's singles
Personal life Highest ranking 43 (15 November 2018)

Penty has lost all of his hair on his body since Medal record
November 2018, and it was diagnosed as alopecia.[9] Men's badminton
Representing England
European Mixed Team Championships
Achievements
2015 Leuven Mixed team
2013 Moscow Mixed team

BWF Grand Prix (1 title) 2017 Lubin Mixed team


European Men's Team Championships
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix
and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton 2014 Basel Men's team
tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World 2018 Kazan Men's team
Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. 2012 Amsterdam Men's team
2016 Kazan Men's team
Men's singles
2024 Łódź Men's team

BWF profile ([Link]


37978491-5D79-47F9-8A0A-710B46871E4C)

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result

2017 Scottish Open Lucas Corvée 21–14, 24–22 Winner


BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 7 runners-up)


Men's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result

2012 Polish International Kieran Merrilees 12–21, 18–21 Runner-up

2012 Swiss International Dieter Domke 14–21, 22–20, 18–21 Runner-up

2014 Welsh International Kieran Merrilees 15–21, 10–21 Runner-up

2015 Estonian International Anton Kaisti 16–21, 16–21 Runner-up

2015 Hellas International Fabian Roth 19–21, 21–19, 19–21 Runner-up

2017 Estonian International Raul Must 21–16, 22–24, 13–21 Runner-up

2017 Swedish International Setyaldi Putra Wibowo 21–12, 21–11 Winner

2017 Kharkiv International Lee Cheuk Yiu 21–17, 21–13 Winner

2018 Slovenian International Pablo Abián 21–18, 21–18 Winner

2018 Belgian International Victor Svendsen 21–13, 19–21, 21–19 Winner

2019 Spanish International Kunlavut Vitidsarn 14–21, 14–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament


BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament

References
1. Falkingham, Katie (6 September 2022). "Toby Penty: England's number one retires from
badminton" ([Link] BBC News. Retrieved
9 September 2022.
2. "Players: Toby Penty" ([Link] Badminton World
Federation. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
3. Toby Penty: England number one on alopecia struggles ([Link]
minton/52714286), BBC Sport, 19 May 2020
4. "Toby Penty" ([Link]
[Link]/[Link]?section=5510&sectionTitle=Toby+Penty). Badminton England.
Archived from the original ([Link]
10&sectionTitle=Toby+Penty) on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
5. "Swedish title win is seventh heaven for Penty" ([Link]
[Link]?itemid=9197&itemTitle=Swedish+title+win+is+seventh+heaven+for+Penty&sectio
n=13&sectionTitle=NEWS&year=&month=&newsprofilecode=#.WIWVPbmBY-M).
Badminton England. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
6. "Athlete: Penty Toby" ([Link] Minsk 2019. Archived
([Link]
7) from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
7. "Penty's Commonwealth Games Run Ends At The Last Eight Hurdle" ([Link]
[Link]/pentys-commonwealth-games-run-ends-at-the-last-eight/). Badminton
England. 8 August 2022. Archived ([Link]
[Link]/pentys-commonwealth-games-run-ends-at-the-last-eight/) from
the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
8. Badminton England (6 September 2022). "Toby Penty Announces Retirement" ([Link]
[Link]/toby-penty-announces-retirement/). Retrieved 9 September 2022.
9. Falkingham, Katie (19 May 2020). "Toby Penty: England number one on alopecia struggles"
([Link] BBC. Archived ([Link]
eb/20200619095053/[Link] from the original on
19 June 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

External links
Toby Penty ([Link] at [Link]
Toby Penty ([Link]
e/37978491-5D79-47F9-8A0A-710B46871E4C) at [Link] (alternate
link ([Link]
209B123F-AA87-41A2-BC3E-CB57133E64CC&q=88523)) (archived)
Toby Penty ([Link] at Olympedia
Toby Penty ([Link] at [Link]
Toby Penty ([Link] at Team GB
Toby Penty ([Link] at Team England
Toby Penty ([Link] at the Birmingham
2022 Commonwealth Games

Retrieved from "[Link]

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