Kiran Badloe
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| Born | 13 September 1994 Almere, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class(es) | RS:X, IQFOiL, Techno 293 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kiran Badloe (born 13 September 1994) is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the gold medal in the men's event at the RS:X World Championships in 2019, 2020 and 2021.[1][2]
In October 2020, he competed at the iQFoil International Games held at Campione, Lake Garda.[3]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, he won gold for the Netherlands in windsurfing.[4]
After his Olympic win, Badloe garnered media attention for the distinctive "blue colored arrow haircut" he sported during the competition.[5] The hairstyle was an homage to the cartoon character Aang from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Badloe explained the show's connection to his haircut ahead of his medal race:[6]
It's about a kid that controls the wind, and he needs to control all different kinds of elements of nature in order to do something great, and I'm doing the same here.
— Kiran Badloe
In March 2022, his portrait was added to a mural in the Schilderswijk neighbourhood of The Hague, Netherlands, alongside other Dutch competitors of the Summer or Winter Olympics and Paralympics held in 2021 and 2022.[7]
In 2024, he became the winner of the television show Expeditie Robinson.[8]
