Stuart Brehaut

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Stuart Brehaut (born September 24, 1978) is a badminton player from Australia.

Brehaut played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing comprehensively in the first round to Lee Hyun-il of Korea 15-3 15-2. He is currently coaching the top tier of athletes at UB WestVic Academy of Sport in Ballarat, Australia.

Today he is best known as one of Australia's top men's singles players and dominated the sport within his home country up until his retirement. Perhaps his biggest legacy was defeating the Icelandic junior singles champion 15-1 15-0 in Indonesia after only doing net spins in his 20 minute warm up. Other highlights of his career include winning the Fiji International and some close first round exits in the German, China, Hong Kong, Japan and All England majors. He also reached the round of 16 of the Chinese Tapei Open in 2005.