Chris Langridge

Christopher Langridge
Chris Langridge in 2013
Personal information
Country	United Kingdom
Born	(1985-05-02) 2 May 1985 (age 32) Epsom, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Handedness	Right
Coach	Pete Jeffrey
Men's and mixed doubles
Highest ranking	15 ((in XD) (13 March 2014) 14 (in MD) (1 December 2016)
Current ranking	unranked (in XD) 17 (in MD) (27 April 2017)
Medal record Badminton Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Men's doubles Representing  England European Championships 2016 La Roche-sur-Yon Men's doubles European Mixed Team Championships 2017 Lubin Mixed team 2013 Moscow Mixed team European Men's Team Championships 2014 Basel Men's team 2016 Kazan Men's team 2012 Amsterdam Men's team Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Mixed doubles 2014 Glasgow Mixed team 2014 Glasgow Men's doubles
BWF profile
Updated on 15:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC).

Chris Langridge (born 2 May 1985) is a British badminton player. He competed for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won three medals. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won a Bronze Medal in the Men's Doubles, partnered with Marcus Ellis.

Chris Langridge was born on 2 May 1985 in Epsom, Surrey.

Langridge was educated at Therfield School, a state comprehensive school in the town of Leatherhead in Surrey in southern England. The school were twice National Schools champions. Langridge was introduced to badminton when he was ten by his teacher Jackie Cunningham who was a badminton coach of the county, and within 18 months at the age of twelve he made the England team. He also played tennis for the South East region, and he was a football player as well as a 100-metre and 200-metre runner.

Langridge teamed up with a number of players in the doubles, for example with Peter Mills in the men's doubles, and starting in 2012 with Heather Olver in the mixed doubles. Langridge won three medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – a silver in the mixed doubles with Olver, a bronze in the men's doubles with Mills, as well as a silver in the mixed team match. By 2013, he has won three gold medals at the English National Badminton Championships in the men's doubles (with Nathan Robertson in 2011 and Mills 2013) and mixed doubles (with Olver in 2013).

In September 2014, he teamed up with Marcus Ellis. They won the men's doubles title in the English National Badminton Championships in both 2015 and 2016. They won a bronze in the 2016 European Championships in La Roche-sur-Yon. They have also won medals in the European Team Championships with a silver in the Mixed Team in 2015, and a bronze medal in the Men's Team in 2016.