Kiran Badloe
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Born | IQFOiL, Techno 293 | 13 September 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kiran Badloe (born 13 September 1994) is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2019 RS:X World Championships and 2020 RS:X World Championships.[1][2]
In October 2020, he competed at the iQFoil International Games held at Campione, Lake Garda.[3]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, he won gold for the Netherlands in windsurfing.[4]
After his Olympic win, Badloe garnered media attention for the distinctive "blue colored arrow haircut" he sported during the competition.[5] The hairstyle was an homage to the cartoon character Aang from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Badloe explained the show's connection to his haircut ahead of his medal race:[6]
It's about a kid that controls the wind, and he needs to control all different kinds of elements of nature in order to do something great, and I'm doing the same here.
— Kiran Badloe
In March 2022, his portrait was added to a mural in the Schilderswijk neighbourhood of The Hague, Netherlands, alongside other Dutch competitors of the Summer or Winter Olympics and Paralympics held in 2021 and 2022.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "RS:X World Windsurfing Championships 2019 - Men's Results RS:X". rsxclass.org. Official International RS:X Class Association Website. Archived from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ "RS:X World Windsurfing Championships 2020 - Men's Results RS:X". rsxclass.org. Official International RS:X Class Association Website. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ Vitello, Rachele (21 October 2020). "iQFoil International Games at Campione, Lake Garda - Day 1". Sail-World.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 31 July 2021. Archived from the originalon 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "The 'Real' Airbender: Dutch windsurfer Kiran Badloe's 'Avatar Aang' hairstyle at Tokyo Olympics turns heads". timesnownews.com. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ O’Connor, Philip (30 July 2021). "Olympics-Sailing-'Last Airbender' Badloe in control for final RS:X gold". Reuters. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Bijzonder olympisch tijdperk vereeuwigd op muurschilderingen in Haagse Schilderswijk". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 15 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
External links
- Kiran Badloe at World Sailing
- Kiran Badloe at World Sailing (archived)
- Kiran Badloe at Olympics.com
- Kiran Badloe at Olympedia
- Kiran Badloe at NOC*NSF (in Dutch)
- Kiran Badloe at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)