Stanislav Pukhov

Stanislav Yevgenyevich Pukhov (Russian: Станислав Евгеньевич Пухов; born 28 June 1977 in Moscow) is a Russian badminton player.

[1] He is a five-time national champion in the men's singles (1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007), and also, defeated France's Arif Rasidi for the championship title and a consolation prize of $10,000 in the same division at the 2005 French Open in Paris.

[2] Pukhov qualified for the men's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after he was ranked sixtieth in the world by the Badminton World Federation.

He received a bye for the second preliminary round before losing out to Lithuania's Kęstutis Navickas, with a score of 12–21 and 17–21.

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.