Jorrit de Ruiter

Jorrit de Ruiter
Personal information
Country	Netherlands
Born	(1986-11-28) 28 November 1986 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Highest ranking	17 (in XD) (April 16, 2015)
Current ranking	17 (in XD) (April 16, 2015)
Medal record Men's badminton Competitor for  Netherlands European Championships Bronze 2014 Kazan Mixed doubles
BWF profile
Updated on April 16, 2015.

Jorrit de Ruiter (born November 28, 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who is member of the Dutch National Badminton Team. He is a doubles specialist. Until April 2013 he played the men's doubles together with Dave Khodabux (highest achieved world ranking 32). Now he only plays the mixed doubles with Samantha Barning who has been his partner in this discipline since 2012 and with whom he achieved world ranking 24 in about a year’s time. In September 2013, Barning got seriously injured, the reason why they couldn’t play a considerable number of tournaments. Therefore, they fell far back on the world ranking. In February 2014 they started to play international tournaments again and came in third place at the European Championships in Kazan, Russia.

He trains full-time at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal. He is chairman of the Athletes council of the Dutch Badminton Association and he has a bachelor degree in sports marketing at Johan Cruyff University in Amsterdam.

Career

De Ruiter started to play badminton when he was seven years old at the Haarlem Badminton Club Duinwijck for which he played in different leagues until 2005. During this period he also joined the National Badminton Youth Team and 9 times he won a national youth championship (4 times mixed doubles, 3 times men's doubles and 2 times men's single). In the season 2005/06, he played for the first time in the Premier League at the then premier league club Slotermeer in Amsterdam. One year later he joined the First team of BC Van Zijderveld in Amstelveen. In 2011, he returned to BC Duinwijck. As from the season 2012/13, de Ruiter is playing in the German premier league as club member of 1. BV Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Results

References

• Profile BWF
• Personal website