Prakash Padukone is a former Indian badminton player. He was considered one of the finest shuttlers of his era. He played an important role in promoting the game of badminton in India. Prakash Padukone is the father of Indian actress Deepika Padukone. Let’s know more about Prakash Padukone’s age, height, wife, children, religion and more.
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Biography/Wiki
Prakash was born on 10 June 1955 in Bangalore, Mysore State, India, who once made India proud with his success through sports, is now proud of his daughter’s success in Bollywood as well as Hollywood. We do. His unstoppable successes in the 80s and 90s earned him titles like ‘The Silent Tiger’ and ‘The Undisputed Leader’.
Prakash Padukone playing badminton
He is proud to be the father of Deepika Padukone, one of the leading actresses of Bollywood. Prakash has been awarded India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 1982. He is also a recipient of the Arjuna Award. Even after his retirement, he continues to contribute by promoting Olympic sports in India through his foundation, Olympic Gold Quest.
Physical Appearance
Even at the age of 60, Prakash has an athletic body. He is 6’1 tall and weighs around 75 kg. He has black hair and black eyes. 
Family, Religion and Caste
Prakash was born in a Brahmin (Chitrapur Saraswat) family in Bangalore, India. Her father, Ramesh Padukone, was the secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association and her mother, Ahilya Padukone, was a housewife. He has a brother who lives in Mangalore, India. His parents arranged his marriage with Ujjala and the couple have two daughters, Deepika Padukone and Anisha Padukone.
Prakash Padukone with his wife and daughters
His elder 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 of India.
Prakash Padukone’s family photo
livelihood
At a very young age, Prakash became keenly interested in badminton as his father inspired him to focus on the sport. He was a right-handed shuttler who played his first match in the Karnataka State Junior Championship in the year 1962. In 1764, he won the national junior champion title and became the youngest player to win the national senior championship at the age of 20. 16. It may surprise many that he won the National Senior Championship title nine consecutive times from 1971 to 1979. Prakash won the “Evening of Champions” at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1979. In the 1980s, Prakash emerged as an unbeatable shuttler in India and became the first Indian to win the men’s singles title at the ‘All England Championships’ by defeating Indonesian shuttler Liem Swee King, after which he was ranked world No. 1.
In the same year, he also won the Danish and Swedish Opens. She won the Swedish Open by defeating her idol Ruby Hartono. It is said that from 1980 to 1985, Prakash had won 15 titles. 
In 1991, Prakash retired from competitive sports and served as the President of the Badminton Association of India for some time. 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) with Vimal Kumar and Vivek Kumar.
Prakash Padukone training a student at his academy
Prakash co-founded the organization Olympic Gold Quest in 2001, which aims to promote Olympic sports in India. Prakash was awarded the BAI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
achievements
World Championships 1983: 3rd place in singles event in Copenhagen, Denmark
Commonwealth Games 1978: Won first place in singles event in Edmonton, Canada
Asian Games 1974: Got third place in the team event in Tehran, Iran. 1986: Got third place in the team event in Seoul, South Korea.
World Cup 1981: Took first place in singles events in Kuala Lumpur
World Grand Prix 1979: Got first place in singles event at Denmark Open. 1980: Got first place in singles event at All England Open.
award
1972: Awarded with Arjuna Award
1982: Received Padma Shri by Government of India
2014: Outstanding Achievement Award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards
2018: Honored with BAI Lifetime Achievement Award
Prakash Padukone receives BAI Lifetime Achievement Award
fact
- Prakash Padukone neither smokes nor drinks alcohol.
- Prakash’s surname ‘Padukone’ was named after his village ‘Padukone’, located near Kundapura in Udupi district of Karnataka.
- He had many friends who were European players such as Morten Frost as he trained most of his international career in Denmark.
Prakash Padukone with Morten Frost
- Dev S Sukumar wrote a biography titled Touch Play based on the life of Prakash Padukone, becoming only the second biography written on a badminton player.
Prakash Padukone Biography, Touch Play
- In an interview, Prakash told that his daughter Deepika’s favorite film is Bajirao Mastani.
- Here is a video of Prakash Padukone interacting with Rajdeep along with his daughter Deepika.
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