Jorrit de Ruiter

Jorrit de Ruiter
Jorrit de Ruiter (left) at the 2015 BWF World Championships
Personal information
CountryNetherlands
Born (1986-11-28) 28 November 1986 (age 37)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Highest ranking16 (XD 18 June 2015)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Netherlands
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Kazan Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Jorrit de Ruiter (born 28 November 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who, until September 2015, was member of the Dutch national team. After he had played in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta he decided to put an end to his international career.

De Ruiter was a doubles specialist. Until April 2013 he played the men's doubles together with Dave Khodabux (highest achieved world ranking 32). From that moment on he only played the mixed doubles with Samantha Barning who was his partner in this discipline since 2012 and with whom he achieved world ranking 24 in about a year’s time. In September 2013, Barning got seriously injured, the reason why they couldn’t play a considerable number of tournaments. Therefore, they fell far back on the world ranking. In February 2014 they started to play international tournaments again and came in third place at the European Championships in Kazan, Russia. His highest achieved ranking in the mixed doubles was 16.

De Ruiter trained full-time at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal. He was chairman of the athletes council of the Dutch Badminton Association and he has a bachelor's degree in sports marketing at Johan Cruyff University in Amsterdam.

Career

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De Ruiter started to play badminton when he was seven years old at the Haarlem Badminton Club Duinwijck for which he played in different leagues until 2005. During this period he also joined the National Badminton Youth Team and 9 times he won a national youth championship (4 times mixed doubles, 3 times men's doubles and 2 times men's singles). In the season 2005/06, he played for the first time in the Premier League at the then premier league club Slotermeer in Amsterdam. One year later he joined the First team of BC Van Zijderveld in Amstelveen. In 2011, he returned to BC Duinwijck. As from the season 2012/13, de Ruiter played in the German premier league as club member of 1. BV Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2016 he committed himself to BC Duinwijck again where he plays in the Dutch premier league. In March 2018 his team won the national championship in the premier league which is the 25th championship for the club. A year later de Ruiter is present again when his club also wins the final of the premier league season 2018-2019.

De Ruiter and Ilse Vaessen

Achievements

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European Championships

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Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Gymnastics Center,
Kazan, Russia
Netherlands Samantha Barning Denmark Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Denmark Christinna Pedersen
12–21, 8–21 Bronze Bronze

BWF Grand Prix

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The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2013 Canada Open Netherlands Samantha Barning Hong Kong Lee Chun Hei
Hong Kong Chau Hoi Wah
13–21, 10–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2014 Canada Open Netherlands Samantha Barning Germany Max Schwenger
Germany Carla Nelte
18–21, 21–23 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2014 Dutch Open Netherlands Samantha Barning Indonesia Riky Widianto
Indonesia Richi Puspita Dili
10–11, 11–10, 11–9, 8–11, 1–11 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

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Men's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2011 Slovak Open Netherlands Dave Khodabux Poland Łukasz Moreń
Poland Wojciech Szkudlarczyk
21–10, 22–20 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2012 Estonian International Netherlands Dave Khodabux France Laurent Constantin
France Sébastien Vincent
17–21, 21–19, 15–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2012 Swedish Masters Netherlands Dave Khodabux Russia Vladimir Ivanov
Russia Ivan Sozonov
16–21, 9–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2012 Dutch International Netherlands Dave Khodabux Malaysia Nelson Heg
Malaysia Teo Ee Yi
21–19, 13–21, 9–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2012 Spanish International Netherlands Dave Khodabux Netherlands Jacco Arends
Netherlands Jelle Maas
21–16, 21–23, 21–13 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2007 Welsh International Netherlands Ilse Vaessen Poland Adam Cwalina
Poland Malgorzata Kurdelska
16–21, 19–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2008 Welsh International Netherlands Ilse Vaessen Scotland Watson Briggs
Scotland Jillie Cooper
19–21, 18–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2011 Belgian International Netherlands Selena Piek Singapore Chayut Triyachart
Singapore Yao Lei
25–23, 16–21, 14–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2012 Estonian International Netherlands Samantha Barning Netherlands Dave Khodabux
Netherlands Selena Piek
7–21, 12–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2012 Norwegian International Netherlands Samantha Barning Germany Michael Fuchs
Germany Birgit Michels
16–21, 23–21, 21–19 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2012 Irish International Netherlands Samantha Barning Netherlands Jacco Arends
Netherlands Ilse Vaessen
22–20, 21–17 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

References

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