Osleni Guerrero

Osleni Guerrero Velazco (born 18 October 1989) is a Cuban badminton player. He is the first Cuban badminton player to win a medal in the Pan American Games.^[2] Guerrero also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Osleni Guerrero
Osleni Guerrero at the 2015 BWF World Championships
Personal information
Birth name	Osleni Guerrero Velazco
Country	Cuba
Born	(1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 33) Havana, Cuba
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)^[1]
Handedness	Right^[1]
Men's singles & doubles
Highest ranking	43 (MS 5 March 2015) 65 (MD 13 August 2019) 93 (XD 22 October 2019)
Current ranking	124 (MS), 139 (MD), 158 (XD) (26 April 2022)
Medal record Men's badminton Representing  Cuba Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Men's singles 2015 Toronto Men's singles 2019 Lima Men's doubles Pan Am Championships 2013 Santo Domingo Men's singles 2014 Markham Men's singles 2019 Aguascalientes Men's singles 2012 Lima Men's singles 2017 Havana Men's singles 2019 Aguascalientes Men's doubles 2018 Guatemala City Men's singles Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 Veracruz Mixed doubles 2018 Barranquilla Mixed doubles 2014 Veracruz Men's singles 2018 Barranquilla Men's singles 2018 Barranquilla Men's doubles 2018 Barranquilla Mixed team 2014 Veracruz Mixed team
BWF profile

Career

Guerrero, born in Havana, started competing in badminton in 2000, and joined the national team in 2005.^[1] As a junior player he won the under-19 category at the 2007 Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships held at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where he beat first seed Howard Shu of the USA, 21–13, 21–10 in the final.^[1]

Guerrero won a bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 2015 Pan Am Games, losing the semi-final to Canadian Andrew D'Souza.^[4] In the 2011 Pan American Games he made history, reaching the final and a silver [an Am Games medal for Cuba at badminton for the first time. He eventually lost that final to first seeded Kevin Cordón of Guatemala with 13–21, 19–21.

Guerrero competed in 2014 and 2015 BWF World Championships. He is a member of the Cuban national badminton team since 2005. He twice won the continental Pan American Badminton Championship. First in 2013^[5] at Santo Domingo,^[6] beating first seeded American Sattawat Pongnairat 17–21, 21–6, 21–16 in a close 51 minutes final. In 2014 at Markham^[7] venue, he successfully defended his Pan American badminton title, this time beating another American Bjorn Seguin in another close fought final of 58 minutes with 19–21, 21–14, and 21–13.^[8] Guerrero won many events in the Pan American Badminton circuit.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Guerrero played the men's singles event in Group J with Tommy Sugiarto of Indonesia, and Howard Shu of United States. He placed second in the group standing after won a match to Shu, but lost to Sugiarto.^[3] He won the silver medal at the 2017 Pan Am Championships defeated by the Brazilian Ygor Coelho de Oliveira in the final.^[14]

In 2018, he won four medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games, a gold medal in the mixed doubles, also three silver medals in the men's singles, doubles, and team events.

In 2019, he reached the finals at the Pan Am Championships in two different events, won a gold medal in the men's singles event.

Achievements

Pan American Games

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Multipurpose Gymnasium, Guadalajara, Mexico	Kevin Cordón	21–23, 19–21	Silver
2015	Atos Markham Pan Am Centre, Toronto, Canada	Andrew D'Souza	21–13, 14–21, 13–21	Bronze

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Polideportivo 3, Lima, Peru	Leodannis Martínez	Jason Ho-shue   Nyl Yakura	21–23, 15–21	Bronze

Pan Am Championships

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Coliseo Manuel Bonilla, Lima, Peru	Kevin Cordón	20–22, 10–21	Silver
2013	Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Sattawat Pongnairat	17–21, 21–6, 21–16	Gold
2014	Markham Pan Am Centre, Markham, Canada	Bjorn Seguin	19–21, 21–14, 21–13	Gold
2017	Sports City Coliseum, Havana, Cuba	Ygor Coelho de Oliveira	21–12, 16–21, 10–21	Silver
2018	Teodoro Palacios Flores Gymnasium, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Ygor Coelho de Oliveira	17–21, 7–21	Bronze
2019	Gimnasio Olímpico, Aguascalientes, Mexico	Kevin Cordón	21–11, 22–20	Gold

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Gimnasio Olímpico, Aguascalientes, Mexico	Leodannis Martínez	Jason Ho-shue   Nyl Yakura	11–21, 22–20, 10–21	Silver

Central American and Caribbean Games

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Omega Complex, Veracruz, Mexico	Kevin Cordón	22–20, 13–21, 22–24	Silver
2018	Coliseo Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia	Kevin Cordón	16–21, 21–14, 23–25	Silver

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Coliseo Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia	Leodannis Martínez	Gareth Henry   Samuel O'Brien Ricketts	12–21, 21–11, 19–21	Silver

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Omega Complex, Veracruz, Mexico	Tahimara Oropesa	Job Castillo   Sabrina Solis	16–21, 21–14, 21–13	Gold
2018	Coliseo Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia	Adriana Artiz	Leodannis Martínez   Tahimara Oropesa	18–21, 21–17, 21–19	Gold

Pan Am Junior Championships

Boys' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Howard Shu	21–13, 21–10	Gold

BWF International Challenge/Series (33 titles, 17 runners-up)

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Peru International	Kimihiro Yamaguchi	16–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2010	Giraldilla International	Alexander Hernández	21–13, 21–17	Winner
2010	Internacional Mexicano	Bjorn Seguin	17–21, 21–19, 21–17	Winner
2011	Giraldilla International	Arief Gifar Ramadhan	19–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2012	Giraldilla International	Charles Pyne	21–17, 21–19	Winner
2012	Peru International	Tan Chun Seang	15–21, 11–21	Runner-up
2012	Venezuela International	Ilian Perez	21–17, 17–21, 21–15	Winner
2012	Suriname International	Misha Zilberman	21–16, 18–21, 11–21	Runner-up
2013	Giraldilla International	Jan Fröhlich	21–19, 21–3	Winner
2013	Peru International	Misha Zilbermann	17–21, 21–13, 21–11	Winner
2013	Venezuela International	Heymard Humblers	21–14, 21–16	Winner
2013	Guatemala International	Rodolfo Ramírez	10–21, 23–25	Runner-up
2013	Brazil International	Yang Chih-hsun	21–8, 18–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2013	Santo Domingo Open	Howard Shu	21–16, 21–6	Winner
2013	Suriname International	Jan Fröhlich	21–11, 21–18	Winner
2013	Internacional Mexicano	Daniel Paiola	21–16, 21–17	Winner
2014	Peru International	Hock Lai Lee	21–17, 21–13	Winner
2014	Venezuela International	Daniel Paiola	21–13, 21–8	Winner
2014	Brazil International	Henri Hurskainen	6–11, 7–11, 6–11	Runner-up
2015	Suriname International	Jan Fröhlich	21–7 retired	Winner
2014	Santo Domingo Open	David Obernosterer	16–21, 21–16, 17–21	Runner-up
2015	Giraldilla International	Howard Shu	21–16, 21–16	Winner
2015	Chile International	Ramazan Öztürk	21–9, 21–15	Winner
2015	Internacional Mexicano	Ernesto Velázquez	13–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2015	Suriname International	Howard Shu	21–11, 21–16	Winner
2016	Guatemala International	Kevin Cordón	Walkover	Winner
2016	Giraldilla International	Luka Wraber	21–16, 21–17	Winner
2016	Chile International	Jan Fröhlich	14–21, 21–8, 21–14	Winner
2017	Giraldilla International	Rosario Maddaloni	21–15, 21–15	Winner
2017	Santo Domingo Open	Luis Ramón Garrido	12–21, 21–16, 21–12	Winner
2017	Suriname International	Brian Yang	21–12, 17–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2018	Peru International	Kevin Cordón	20–22, 21–14, 15–21	Runner-up
2018	Santo Domingo Open	Rosario Maddaloni	21–13, 19–21, 21–18	Winner
2019	Mexico Future Series	Lino Muñoz	20–22, 21–18, 21–15	Winner

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Venezuela International	Ronald Toledo	Rubén Castellanos   Adams Rodríguez	18–21, 21–8, 21–8	Winner
2017	Giraldilla International	Leodannis Martínez	Lukas Osele   Kevin Strobl	21–11, 22–24, 21–8	Winner
2017	Santo Domingo Open	Leodannis Martínez	Therry Aquino   Reimi Starling Cabrera Rosario	21–12, 21–14	Winner
2018	Giraldilla International	Leodannis Martínez	Lazaro Yovani Madera Padrino   Ernesto Reyes	21–10, 21–16	Winner
2018	Guatemala International	Leodannis Martínez	Rubén Castellanos   Aníbal Marroquín	12–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2019	Peru Future Series	Leodannis Martínez	Mario Cuba   Diego Mini	21–14, 21–17	Winner
2019	Mexico Future Series	Leodannis Martínez	Andrés López   Luis Montoya	21–13, 21–19	Winner
2019	Santo Domingo Open	Leodannis Martínez	Fabrício Farias   Francielton Farias	21–19, 21–16	Winner
2022	Santo Domingo Open	Leodannis Martínez	Ayato Endo   Yuta Takei	13–21, 9–21	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Giraldilla International	Solángel Guzmán	Alexander Hernández   María L. Hernández	17–21, 12–21	Runner-up
2014	Giraldilla International	Tahimara Oropeza	Andrés Corpancho   Luz Maria Zornoza	21–16, 21–15	Winner
2017	Santo Domingo Open	Adriana Artiz	Leodannis Martínez   Tahimara Oropeza	11–21, 21–13, 15–21	Runner-up
2018	Jamaica International	Yeily Ortiz	Leodannis Martínez   Tahimara Oropeza	22–20, 21–15	Runner-up
2018	Giraldilla International	Adriana Artiz	Leodannis Martínez   Tahimara Oropeza	21–13, 13–21, 21–19	Winner
2019	Peru Future Series	Tahimara Oropeza	Vinson Chiu   Breanna Chi	20–22, 9–21	Runner-up
2019	Mexico Future Series	Tahimara Oropeza	Luis Montoya   Vanessa Villalobos	22–20, 15–21, 21–16	Winner

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament

References

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2. "Cuba Climbs in Medal Standings of Pan American Games of Guadalajara". 21 October 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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8. "XIX Pan Am Championships 2014 – Day 4: Guerrero, Michelle Li Retain Titles - Badminton World Federation". Bwfbadminton.org. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
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12. "Cuba Celebrates Osleni Guerrero Badminton Victory : Escambray". En.escambray.cu. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
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External links

• Osleni Guerrero at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
• at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)