Pullela Gopichand is an Indian former badminton player, born on 16 November 1973 near Chirala in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, who is now chief national coach of the India national badminton team. Encouraged by his elder brother, he turned from cricket to badminton, won five national championship titles in a row from 1996 to 2000, and took a team silver and an individual bronze at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. In 2001 he won the All England Open, beating the then world number one Peter Gade in the semi-finals and becoming the second Indian after Prakash Padukone to take the title. He runs the Gopichand Badminton Academy and has received the Arjuna Award, the Khel Ratna, the Dronacharya Award and the Padma Bhushan.
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Pullela Gopichand (born 16 November 1973) is an Indian former badminton player.
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Pullela won his first National Badminton Championship title in 1996, and went on to win the title five times in a row, until 2000.
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Pullela Gopichand (born 16 November 1973) is an Indian former badminton player.
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At the 1998 Commonwealth Games, he won a silver in the team event and a bronze in men's singles.
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