Prakash Padukone is a former Indian badminton player. He is considered one of the best badminton players of his era. He played a vital role in promoting badminton in India. Prakash Padukone is the father of Indian actress Deepika Padukone. Let us know more about Prakash Padukone’s age, height, wife, children, religion, etc.
Biography/Wiki
Prakash was born on June 10, 1955 in Bangalore, Mysore state, India. He once brought a lot of glory to India through his success in sports and is now proud of his daughter’s success in Bollywood and Hollywood. He was invincible in the 1980s and 1990s, earning titles such as “Silent Tiger” and “Undisputed Leader.”
Prakash Padukone plays badminton
He is the proud father of one of the leading ladies of Bollywood, Deepika Padukone. Prakash was awarded India’s third highest civilian Padma Shri in 1982. He is also an Arjuna Award recipient. Even after retirement, he continued to contribute to the country by promoting the Olympic movement in India through his Olympic Gold Quest Foundation.
appearance
Even though he is over 60 years old, Prakash still has an athletic figure. He is 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighs about 75 kilograms. He has black hair and black eyes. 
family, religion and caste
Prakash was born into a Brahmin (Chitrapur Saraswat) family in Bangalore, India. His father Ramesh Padukone is the secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association and his mother Ahilya Padukone is a housewife. He has a brother who lives in Mangalore, India. His parents arranged for him to marry Ujjala and the couple had two daughters: Deepika Padukone and Anisha Padukone.
Prakash Padukone with wife and daughter
His eldest daughter Deepika is one of India’s highest-paid actresses, and his younger daughter Anisha is a professional golfer. His family is one of the respected and respected families in India.
Prakash Padukone family photos
Profession
At a very young age, Prakash developed a keen interest in badminton as his father often motivated him to focus on the sport. He was a right-handed badminton player who played his first tournament, the Karnataka Junior Championship, in 1962. In 1764 he won the National Junior Championship title and became the youngest player to win the National Senior Championship in 1764. 16. Amazingly, he won nine consecutive senior national championships from 1971 to 1979. Prakash won the Night of Champions in 1979 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In the 1980s, Prakash won the title. He became India’s unparalleled badminton player and became the first Indian to win the men’s singles title at the All England Championships after defeating Indonesian badminton player Lim Swee Kim, after which he was ranked No. 1 in the world.
In the same year, he also won the Danish Open and Swedish Open. He won the Swedish Open after defeating his idol Ruby Hartono. It is said that from 1980 to 1985, Prakash won 15 championships. 
In 1991, Prakash retired from competitive sports and served for a period as the president of the Badminton Association of India. He also served as the coach of the Indian national badminton team from 1993 to 1996. In 1994, Prakash founded the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA) along with Vimal Kumar and Vivek Kumar.
Prakash Padukone training a student at his institute
Prakash co-founded the ‘Olympic Gold Quest’ organization in 2001 to promote the Olympic movement in India. Prakash received the BAI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Achievement
1983 World Championships: Third place in singles in Copenhagen, Denmark
1978 Commonwealth Games: Won first place in singles in Edmonton, Canada
1974 Asian Games: Tehran, Iran, ranked third in the team competition 1986: Seoul, South Korea, ranked third in the team competition
1981 World Cup: Kuala Lumpur ranked first in each event
World Grand Prix 1979: Ranked No. 1 in singles at the Danish Open 1980: Ranked No. 1 in singles at the All England Open
Awards
1972: Won the Arjuna Award
1982: Awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India
2014: GQ Men of the Year Awards Outstanding Achievement Award
2018: Won the BAI Lifetime Achievement Award
Prakash Padukone receives BAI Lifetime Achievement Award
fact
- Prakash Padukone does not smoke or drink alcohol.
- Prakash’s surname “Padukone” is named after his village Padukone, located near Kundapura in Udupi district of Karnataka.
- He had many European player friends like Morten Frost as he played most of his international career in Denmark.
Prakash Padukone and Morten Frost
- Dev S. Sukumar wrote a biography titled Touch Play based on the life of Prakash Padukone, making it the only second biography on a badminton player.
Biography of Prakash Padukone, Touch Games
- In an interview, Prakash revealed that his favorite film of his daughter Deepika is Bajirao Mastani.
- This is a video of Prakash Padukone and his daughter Deepika talking to Rajdeep.
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