Jorrit de Ruiter

Jorrit de Ruiter
Jorrit de Ruiter
	Jorrit de Ruiter (left) at the 2015 BWF World Championships
Personal information
Country	Netherlands
Born	28 November 1986 (age 37); Amsterdam, Netherlands
Highest ranking	16 (XD 18 June 2015)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing Netherlands
European Championships
	BWF profile

Jorrit de Ruiter (born 28 November 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who, until September 2015, was member of the Dutch national team. After he had played in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta he decided to put an end to his international career.

De Ruiter was a doubles specialist. Until April 2013 he played the men's doubles together with Dave Khodabux (highest achieved world ranking 32). From that moment on he only played the mixed doubles with Samantha Barning who was 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. His highest achieved ranking in the mixed doubles was 16.

De Ruiter trained full-time at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal. He was chairman of the athletes council of the Dutch Badminton Association and he has a bachelor's 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 singles). 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 played in the German premier league as club member of 1. BV Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2016 he committed himself to BC Duinwijck again where he plays in the Dutch premier league. In March 2018 his team won the national championship in the premier league which is the 25th championship for the club. A year later de Ruiter is present again when his club also wins the final of the premier league season 2018-2019.

Achievements

European Championships

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia	Samantha Barning	Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen	12–21, 8–21	Bronze

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Canada Open	Samantha Barning	Lee Chun Hei Chau Hoi Wah	13–21, 10–21	Runner-up
2014	Canada Open	Samantha Barning	Max Schwenger Carla Nelte	18–21, 21–23	Runner-up
2014	Dutch Open	Samantha Barning	Riky Widianto Richi Puspita Dili	10–11, 11–10, 11–9, 8–11, 1–11	Runner-up

BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Slovak Open	Dave Khodabux	Łukasz Moreń Wojciech Szkudlarczyk	21–10, 22–20	Winner
2012	Estonian International	Dave Khodabux	Laurent Constantin Sébastien Vincent	17–21, 21–19, 15–21	Runner-up
2012	Swedish Masters	Dave Khodabux	Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov	16–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2012	Dutch International	Dave Khodabux	Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi	21–19, 13–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2012	Spanish International	Dave Khodabux	Jacco Arends Jelle Maas	21–16, 21–23, 21–13	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Welsh International	Ilse Vaessen	Adam Cwalina Malgorzata Kurdelska	16–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2008	Welsh International	Ilse Vaessen	Watson Briggs Jillie Cooper	19–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2011	Belgian International	Selena Piek	Chayut Triyachart Yao Lei	25–23, 16–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2012	Estonian International	Samantha Barning	Dave Khodabux Selena Piek	7–21, 12–21	Runner-up
2012	Norwegian International	Samantha Barning	Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels	16–21, 23–21, 21–19	Winner
2012	Irish International	Samantha Barning	Jacco Arends Ilse Vaessen	22–20, 21–17	Winner