Tarun Dhillon


Tarun Dhillon is an Indian para badminton player from Haryana. He competes in the SL4 category. He qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, his second Olympics.
Dhillon has been ranked world number 2 in para-badminton men's Singles SL4. He represented India at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and finished fourth in the SL4 singles category.
He won a gold medal in the men's doubles SL3-SL4 event along with Kumar Nitesh at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China. Earlier, he won two more Asian Games medals. He had won a silver medal in 2014 and gold medal in the 2018 Asian Para Games.

Early life

Dhillon was born in Hissar, Haryana. When he was 8 years old, he met with an accident while playing football and his right knee was badly injured and two surgeries did not help. He took to badminton and won his first para badminton event at 11. He trains at Shining Star Badminton Academy, Haryana.

Awards

Dhillon received the Arjuna Award in 2022.

Achievements

World Championships

Men's singles SL4
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2013Helmut-Körnig-Halle, Dortmund, Germany

Asian Para Games

Men's singles SL4
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2014Gyeyang Gymnasium, Incheon, South Korea

Asian Championships

Men's doubles SL3–SL4
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2008Raheja Stadium,
Bangalore, India
Bronze

BWF Para Badminton World Circuit (6 titles, 9 runners-up)

The BWF Para Badminton World Circuit – Grade 2, Level 1, 2 and 3 tournaments has been sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation from 2022.
Men's singles SL4
YearTournamentLevelOpponentScoreResult
2022Spanish Para Badminton InternationalLevel 1silver2

International tournaments (from 2011–2021) (2 titles, 3 runners-up)

Men's singles SL4
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2019Dubai Para Badminton International|variant=1974silver2