Korea Badminton, World Championship 3 Gold, 1 Bronze… Best score ever
Ahn Se-young, Korea’s first gold medal in singles history…
Seo Seung-jae
Suh Seung-jae and Chae Yoo-jeong won the mixed doubles surprise victory
Seo Seung-jae, who also won the men’s doubles, is the third Korean multi-winner… Women’s doubles 3 years in a row
Korean badminton won three out of five events at the 2023 World Individual Championships.
Badminton Team
The badminton team won the women’s singles, mixed doubles, and men’s doubles events
at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark on the 28th (Korean time) and finished the women’s doubles in third place.
The victory in three events is the best ever achieved by Korean badminton at the World Championships, which celebrated its 28th this year.
Previous records were won in two events, held in 1985, 1991 and 1999.
Gold medals were won in men’s doubles and mixed doubles at all three events.
In addition, winning in four events is also a tie record for the most winnings in history. 카지노사이트
Korean singles
Previously, 1991 (women’s singles/doubles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles),
1995 (women’s singles/doubles, men’s singles/doubles), 2013 (women’s singles/doubles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles) There was an event prize.
The World Individual Championships are the most prestigious international competitions
in which five individual events (men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles) are held in a tournament format.
Ahn Se-young
Ahn Se-young (21, Samsung Life Insurance) won the women’s singles final by defeating world number 6 Carolina Marine (30, Spain) 2-0 (21-12 21-10).
It was Ahn Se-young, who was repeatedly blocked by her ‘rival’ Yamaguchi Akane (Japan) in the quarterfinals the year before last and the semifinals last year, has risen to the top spot this year.
Ahn Se-young is the first Korean player to win the singles event at the world championships, both men and women.
Korean singles have been runner-up twice and third place nine times in 46 years.
In the women’s singles, Bang Soo-hyeon advanced to the final for the first time in 1993 and won the silver medal, and in 1995, Park Seong-woo was the runner-up in the men’s singles.
Ahn Se-young collected her eighth gold medal of the year with this win.
This year
Ahn Se-young recorded seven championships, three runners-up,
one third place until last month, and she rose to No. 1 in the world rankings in August.
After the awards ceremony, Ahn Se-young expressed her feelings in English, “Today I am the champion.
I am very happy to win the match.”
She continued, in Korean, she said, “I think I’m doing well because I enjoy it,” she said.
Mixed Doubles
In the mixed doubles, Seo Seung-jae (Samsung Life Insurance) and Chae Yoo-jeong (Incheon International Airport) won the championship by defeating world No.
It is the first splendid achievement in 20 years since Kim Dong-moon and Ra Gyeong-min won the championship in 2003.
In the Korean mixed doubles, since Kim Dong-moon and Ra Kyung-min, they have not made it to the final even once, and had to be satisfied with only three bronze medals.
Lee Yong-dae and Lee Hyo-jeong, gold medalists at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won the bronze medal in 2009, while Ko Seong-hyeon-Ha Jung-eun and Shin Baek-cheol-Eom Hye-won finished third in the 2010 and 2013 games, respectively.
After that, they didn’t even advance to the quarterfinals.
Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yoo-jung had never defeated Jeong Si-wei and Huang Ya-chung before this day and suffered 9 defeats, but won a valuable first win on the way to winning the world championship.
Men’s Doubles
In the men’s doubles, Seo Seung-jae and Kang Min-hyeok (above Samsung Life Insurance) beat Kim Astrup and Anders Skarup Rasmussen (Denmark) dramatically 2-1 (14-21 21-15 21-17).
The opponent took the first set thanks to the one-sided support of the home fans, but Seo Seung-jae and Kang Min-hyuk did not waver and won the second and third sets to come from behind.
The men’s doubles championship is the first in nine years since Go Seong-hyun, Shin Baek-cheol and Yoo Yeon-soo-Lee Yong-dae shared the men’s doubles gold and silver medals in the 2014 event.
Seo Seung-jae doubled his joy by adding a gold medal following the mixed doubles event.
Multiple World Championships
Seo Seung-jae became the third Korean player to win multiple world championships in one year,
following Park Ju-bong (1985 men’s doubles/mixed doubles, 1991 men’s doubles/mixed doubles) and Kim Dong-moon (1999 men’s doubles/mixed doubles).
In the women’s doubles, Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport) and Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) were defeated by Afryani Rahayu and City Padia Silva Ramadhanti (Indonesia) 0-2 (9-21 20-22) in the semifinals.
Finished the tournament in 3rd place.
Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong won third place in 2021
won the prize for the third consecutive year following last year’s runner-up.