CORDON Kevin

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 16	Men's Singles	2012	London, GBR
Last 32	Men's Singles	2008	Beijing, CHN
Group Stage	Men's Singles	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Quarterfinal	Men's Singles	2011	London, GBR
Last 64	Men's Singles	2019	Basel, SUI
Last 64	Men's Singles	2015	Jakarta, INA
Last 64	Men's Singles	2010	Paris, FRA
Last 64	Men's Doubles	2010	Paris, FRA
Last 64	Men's Singles	2009	Hyderabad, IND

Pan American Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men's Singles	2019	Lima, PER

Pan American Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men's Singles	2019	Santo Domingo, DOM
3	Men's Singles	2021	Guatemala City, GUA
3	Men's Singles	2018	Guatemala City, GUA
Last 16	Men's Doubles	2018	Guatemala City, GUA

Pan American Championships Team

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men's Team	2020	Salvador, BRA
Final 7-8	Mixed Team	2019	Lima, PER

BWF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64	Group
2018	Singles	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2017	Singles	-	-	-	-	1x	1x	-	-

World Tour & World Superseries - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
Last 16	2017	Men's Singles	BWF World Tour	Calgary, AB, CAN
Last 32	2017	Men's Singles	BWF World Tour	Anaheim, CA, USA
Last 64	2018	Men's Singles	BWF World Tour	Calgary, AB, CAN

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Spending time with family, watching television, reading. (La Red YouTube channel, 14 Oct 2019)

Athlete

Spanish

Jose Maria Solis [personal], GUA, from 2004

Left (Facebook page, 21 May 2016)

He was forced to retire from the semifinal match at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, due to a left shoulder injury. (tn23.tv, 01 Aug 2019)

Injury forced him to pull out of his first match at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (ONS, 12 Aug 2016)

In April 2013 he suffered a knee injury, in which three ligaments and the meniscus were affected, at an international event in Peru. He was sidelined from competition for a year. (rio2016.com, 07 Aug 2014; prensalibre.com, 13 Feb 2019)

He took up badminton at age 11. (latimes.com, 15 Jul 2011)

He wanted to compete at the Olympic Games, so he picked a less popular sport in his country. He moved to Guatemala City to play badminton at age 14. "I got to know badminton by accident. I went to an exhibition in my local town and I started to play. Three months later I had won my first tournament. I also played football but when I saw that badminton was opening doors for me and to avoid injury, I decided to dedicate myself to it." (thenational.ae, 24 Apr 2016; latimes.com, 15 Jul 2011)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (publinews.gt, 10 Oct 2019)

In 2018 he was the recipient of the Medal of Peace from the ministry of culture and sport in Guatemala. The award is presented to individuals who promote art, culture and sports in Guatemala. (elperiodico.com.gt, 07 Dec 2018)

He was Guatemala's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. (latimes.com, 15 Jul 2011; soy502.com, 06 Feb 2020)