Katharina Fink Explained

Katharina Fink
Country:Italy
Birth Date:2002 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy[1]
Residence:Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy[2]
Event:Women's singles & doubles
Highest Ranking:124 (WS 20 December 2022)
63 (WD with Yasmine Hamza 15 November 2022)
Bwf Id:CC9E0B53-DB56-4020-BFBC-3845BCD97CD5

Katharina Fink (born 14 November 2002) is an Italian badminton player affiliated with SSV Bozen. She won the National Championships title in 2018.[1] Fink clinched her first senior international title at the 2019 South Africa International in the women's doubles event partnered with Yasmine Hamza.[3] Together with Hamza, they won the silver medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games.[4]

Early life

Fink was born into a German-speaking region in Italy called South Tyrol. She is half Czech on her mother's side and quarter Swiss, quarter Italian on her father's.[5] Fink began to playing badminton at the age of ten.[2] In her junior career, she trained at the Südtirol Badminton School, and entered top 200 BWF World ranking in the women's doubles event in 2021.[6]

Achievements

Mediterranean Games

Women's doubles

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 6 runners-up)

Women's singles

Women's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2019Cyprus International Yasmine Hamza Daniella Gonda
Ágnes Kőrösi
12–21, 21–12, 19–21 Runner-up
2019South Africa International Yasmine Hamza Megan de Beer
Johanita Scholtz
16–21, 21–15, 21–16 Winner
2020Latvia International Yasmine Hamza Kati-Kreet Marran
Helina Rüütel
11–21, 12–21 Runner-up
2021Hellas International Yasmine Hamza Low Yeen Yuan
Valeree Siow
15–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2021Cyprus International Yasmine Hamza Polina Tkach
Tetyana Potapenko
21–10, 11–7 retired Winner
2021El Salvador International Yasmine Hamza Sania Lima
Tamires Santos
12–21, 21–13, 13–21 Runner-up
2023Iceland International Yasmine Hamza Abbygael Harris
Annie Lado
13–21, 18–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International

Girls' singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2018Irish Junior Open Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka8–21, 10–21 Runner-up
2019South Africa Junior International Yasmine Hamza8–21, 17–21 Runner-up
2020Portuguese Junior International Yasmine Hamza13–21, 19–21 Runner-up

Girls' doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2019Portuguese Junior International Yasmine Hamza Judith Mair
Chiara Passeri
21–16, 11–21, 17–21 Runner-up
2019South Africa Junior International Yasmine Hamza Amy Ackerman
Megan de Beer
21–11, 21–11 Winner
2020Lithuanian Junior International Yasmine Hamza Lucía Rodríguez
Ania Setién
21–19, 21–14 Winner
2020Portuguese Junior International Yasmine Hamza Ana Fernandes
Claudia Lourenço
21–6, 21–17 Winner

BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament

BWF Junior International Challenge tournament

BWF Junior International Series tournament

BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Katharina Fink . Federazione Italiana Badminton . 30 June 2022 . it . 30 June 2022 . https://archive.today/20220630155117/https://www.badmintonitalia.it/it/maglia-azzurra/schede-atleti/fiteam/48.html . live.
  2. Web site: Katharina Fink . Südtiroler Sporthilfe Alto Adige . 30 June 2022 . de . 30 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220630162728/https://www.sporthilfe.it/fink-katharina/ . live.
  3. Web site: Fink und Hamza schreiben Badmintongeschichte . RaiNews . 9 December 2019 . 30 June 2022 . de . 30 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220630160300/https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2019/12/tag-Badminton-Bozner-Katharina-Fink-Yasmine-Hamza-Suedafrika-99e078fc-ed2c-45a1-8022-1dba05a0fffd.html . live.
  4. Web site: Santangelo . Roberto . Badminton, Giochi del Mediterraneo 2022: argento per Katharina Fink e Yasmine Hamza, bronzo per Fabio Caponio e Giovanni Toti . OA Sport . 27 June 2022 . 29 June 2022 . it . 29 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220629080046/https://www.oasport.it/2022/06/badminton-giochi-del-mediterraneo-2022-argento-per-katharina-fink-e-yasmine-hamza-bronzo-per-fabio-caponio-e-giovanni-toti/ . live.
  5. Web site: Katharina Fink: I felt the desire burning inside me . Badminton Europe . 26 May 2020 . 30 June 2022 . 30 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220630162052/http://www.badmintoneurope.com/cms/default.aspx?clubid=4685&cmsid=239&pageid=5381&m=8347300 . live.
  6. Web site: Katharina Fink zählt jetzt zu den besten 200 der Welt . SportNews.bz . 14 December 2021 . 30 June 2022 . de . 30 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220630163614/https://www.sportnews.bz/artikel/badminton/katharina-fink-zaehlt-jetzt-zu-den-besten-200-der-welt . live.