Ville Lång
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| Country | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 February 1985 Lahti, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 31 January 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 21 (March 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ville Lång (born 14 February 1985) is a badminton player from Finland. He won ten consecutive Finland's National Championship men's singles titles in 2005–2014, and 3 men's doubles title in 2010, 2011, and 2017. In 2003, he won bronze at the European Junior Championships. Lång competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He announced his retirement on 31 January 2016, and received a meritorious service award from BWF. After retiring from the international competition, Lång started his coaching career first in Paris where he coached the league team Aulnay-sous-Bois after which he has been the head coach of one local club in Sweden. In 2019, he was elected as vice chairman of the BWF Athletes' Commission to represent the needs and views of athletes to the BWF council and committees.