KUUBA Kristin

Date of Birth: 15 Feb 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: TARTU

Birth Country:

Estonia

Place of residence : TARTU

Residence Country:

Estonia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Badminton	Women's Singles	15

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 1	Women's Singles Group Play Stage - Group D #322 EST KUUBA KKUUBA Kristin 2 PER MACIAS DMACIAS Daniela 0	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 1	Women's Singles Group Play Stage - Group D #331 THA ONGBAMRUNGPHAN BONGBAMRUNGPHAN Busanan 2 EST KUUBA KKUUBA Kristin 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
25	Women's Singles	2014	Nanjing, CHN
25	Mixed Doubles	2014	Nanjing, CHN

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2017	Glasgow, GBR
Last 64	Women's Singles	2019	Basel, SUI

European Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 16	Women's Singles	2019	Minsk, BLR

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 16	Women's Singles	2018	Huelva, ESP
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2018	Huelva, ESP
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2017	Kolding, DEN
Last 64	Women's Singles	2021	Kiev, UKR

European Team Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Group Stage	Women's Team	2018	Kazan, RUS
Group Stage	Women's Team	2020	Lievin, FRA

BWF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64	Group
2021	Singles	-	-	-	-	1x	2x	-	-
2020	Singles	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-	-
2019	Singles	-	-	-	2x	2x	3x	-	-
2018	Singles	-	-	-	1x	2x	-	-	-
2018	Doubles W	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-

World Tour & World Superseries - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
Quarterfinal	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Glasgow, GBR
Quarterfinal	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Orleans, FRA
Quarterfinal	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Vladivostok, RUS
Quarterfinal	2018	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Vladivostok, RUS
Last 16	2021	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Huelva, ESP
Last 16	2020	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Saarbrucken, GER
Last 16	2020	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Odense, DEN
Last 16	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Saarbrucken, GER
Last 16	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Basel, SUI
Last 16	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Glasgow, GBR
Last 16	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Saarbrucken, GER

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

Bowling, tennis, cooking, spending time with friends. (tartutriiton.ee, 24 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Physical Education - University of Tartu, Estonia

Partner Martin Thomson

Languages spoken:

English, Estonian

Mart Siliksaar [personal], EST

Right (bwfbadminton.com, 22 Feb 2020)

Sporting relatives:

Her younger brother Gregor Kuuba has represented Estonia in basketball at youth level, and competed at the 2019 U16 European Championship in Udine, Italy. He has also played basketball at youth level for Don Bosco Livorno in Italy. (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Sep 2020)

National team:

2013 (bwfbadminton.com, 22 Feb 2020)

She began playing badminton at age seven at Noo Badminton Club, and more seriously when she attended Noo Secondary School in Estonia. (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020; bwfbadminton.com, 22 Feb 2020; tartutriiton.ee, 24 Jan 2020)

She originally played indoor hockey and volleyball before her first coach Mart Maerand introduced her to badminton. "My father has played basketball all his life. I went with him to the hall and ran around. I was an energetic girl. My parents decided not to get me involved in sport before I attended school. Instead they let me enjoy my childhood." (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to win a medal at the European championships. (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020)

She trains twice a day, and up to 20 hours a week. (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020; tartutriiton.ee, 24 Jan 2020)

Her parents, and first coach Mart Maerand. (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020)

She was named Best Female Athlete by the Estonian Badminton Association in 2019. (sport.delfi.ee, 03 Feb 2020)

General Interest

General
FOCUS ON SINGLES
She initially competed in both singles and doubles at junior level before deciding to focus her attention on singles competition after graduating high school in 2016. "I was often so tired that I couldn't win my matches in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. When I didn't play doubles anymore, I was much fresher and turned longer meetings to my advantage. As time went on, I felt more that I couldn't do my best [combining singles and doubles]. I'm a lone wolf who likes to be alone on the court, if I'm wrong, I can only be angry with myself. So far, I have not regretted that I chose the singles game." (ajaveeb.nsk.ee, 28 Feb 2020; tartutriiton.ee, 24 Jan 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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