Profile details
- Born
- 14 Feb 1993
- Birthplace
- Toronto
- Country
- Canada
- Height
- 167 cm
- Plays
- Right-handed
- Sport
- Badminton
- Discipline
- Racquet
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, weight, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸Pan American Games champion
- ▸Pan American champion
- ▸National champion
Competition Appearances
36 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·2024 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- ·2020 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- ·2022 Commonwealth Games – men's doubles
- ·2018 Commonwealth Games – men's doubles
- ·2018 Commonwealth Games – mixed doubles
- ·2018 Badminton World Championships – men's doubles
- ·2020 All England Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- ·2019 Pan American Games – men's doubles
Career Timeline
- 2006Competed at 2006 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U14 – men's singles
- 2007Competed at 2007 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U14 – men's doubles
- 2007Competed at 2007 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U14 – men's singles
- 2007Competed at 2007 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U14 – mixed doubles
- 2008Competed at 2008 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U17 – men's doubles
- 2009Competed at 2009 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U17 – men's doubles
- 2009Competed at 2009 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U17 – men's singles
- 2011Competed at 2011 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U19 – men's singles
- 2011Competed at 2011 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U19 – mixed doubles
- 2012Competed at 2012 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U19 – men's doubles
- 2012Competed at 2012 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U19 – mixed doubles
- 2013Competed at 2013 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2013Competed at 2013 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's singles
- 2013Competed at 2013 Peru International Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U23 – men's doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U23 – men's singles
- 2014Competed at 2014 Canadian Junior Badminton Championships U23 – mixed doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 Ontario Badminton Championships – Men's doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 Ontario Badminton Championships – Mixed doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 US Open Grand Prix – men's doubles
- 2014Competed at 2014 USA International Badminton Championships – mixed doubles
- 2015Competed at 2015 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2016Competed at 2016 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2017Competed at 2017 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2017Competed at 2017 U.S. International Challenge – mixed doubles
- 2018Competed at 2018 Badminton World Championships – men's doubles
- 2018Competed at 2018 Canadian Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2018Competed at 2018 Canadian Badminton Championships – mixed doubles
- 2018Competed at badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – men's doubles
- 2018Competed at badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – mixed doubles
- 2019Competed at badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games – men's doubles
- 2019Competed at badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games – mixed doubles
- 2020Competed at 2020 All England Badminton Championships – men's doubles
- 2020Competed at badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- 2022Competed at badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – men's doubles
- 2024Competed at badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
Statistics
Verified statistics are not available in this profile.
About
Nyl Kiyoshi Yakura (born 14 February 1993) is a Canadian badminton player. He captured two gold medals at the Pan American Games, winning the men's doubles title in 2019 and 2023, and also a silver in the mixed doubles in 2019. Yakura, who grew up in Pickering, Ontario, currently lives in Toronto and trains at the KC Badminton Club in Markham.
Biography adapted from Nyl Yakura on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.