Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Dechapol Puavaranukroh is a Thai badminton player. He was a gold medalist at the 2014 BWF World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partner Kittinupong Kedren. Dechapol claimed doubles titles at the [Badminton at the Badminton at the 2017 SEA Games – Individual event|2017 SEA Games|2017 SEA Games] by winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with Kedren and in the mixed doubles with Sapsiree Taerattanachai. Together with Sapsiree, he won the silver and gold medals at the BWF World Championships in 2019 and 2021 respectively, became the first Thai pair who won the world title. The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian leg titles in Thailand and all 2021 Bali leg titles, thus climbing to world number 1 in the BWF ranking. Dechapol and Sapsiree made history as the first ever Thai players to win a title in the year-end Finals tournaments and rank first in the world ranking.
Career
Dechapol and his partner, Sapsiree Taerattanachai, reached their first ever final at a Superseries event in 2017 Singapore Open.They competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Achievements
BWF World Championships
Mixed doubles| Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland |  Asian ChampionshipsMixed doubles
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