Mike Beres
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Mike Beres (born May 13, 1973) is a male badminton player from Canada.<ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games. He was born in Brantford, Ontario.
In 2001 and 2007, he won the Boston Badminton Open. Beres competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Jody Patrick. They lost to Fredrik Bergström and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 32.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He would later win gold medals in singles and doubles at the 2007 Pan American Games, as well as a silver in mixed Badminton with Valerie Loker. Beres has won 8 Canadian National Championships between 1998 and 2007, two of them in men's singles, four in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles.
Beres has also competed in the 2000 Olympics and qualified for the August 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for mixed doubles. Beres was coached by Edith Hayman, a former Ottawa District Badminton Association (ODBA) champion.
Mike Beres currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario where he occasionally frequents at the RA Centre, a badminton training/playing facility, which is an affiliated member of the ODBA. However, he has officially retired after playing badminton for Canada in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Badminton players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Canadian male badminton players
- Olympic badminton players for Canada
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Sportspeople from Brantford
- Sportspeople from Ottawa
- Badminton players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Badminton players at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in badminton
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada in badminton
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada in badminton
- Commonwealth Games badminton players for Canada
- Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games