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Feb 03, 1983 Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States 41 years old
badminton player
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About Raju Rai
- Rajiv Kumar "Raju" Rai (born February 3, 1983 in Lawrenceville, Georgia) is an American badminton player of Indian descent.
- He won a bronze medal, along with his partner Mesinee Mangkalakiri, in the mixed doubles at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- Rai is also a member of Orange County Badminton Club in Anaheim, California, and is coached and trained by former Olympic doubles champion Tony Gunawan (2000), who is currently playing for the United States.Rai qualified for the men's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after he was ranked sixty-eighth in the world, and awarded an entry as one of the top 38 seeded players by the Badminton World Federation.
- He received a bye for the second preliminary round before losing out to Finland's Ville Lång, with a score of 9–21 and 16–21.Rai is a former coach of Bellevue Badminton Club, and also, an athlete director for the U.S.
- national badminton team.
- He, along with fellow Olympian Bob Malaythong, currently coach the top junior players in the United States at Synergy Badminton Academy in Menlo Park, California.
