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Lin Dan is the first player in mens single to win consecutive golds in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Gao Ling won a total of 4 olympic medals in badminton, with 2 being consecutive gold in Mix double in the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Indonesia is the second most successful country in Badminton sports after China at the Olympics event. China and Indonesia are the only countries that have ever won gold medals in every badminton discipline. Bolded numbers below indicate a country as the overall winner of Olympic badminton of that year. As of the 2024 Olympics
The men's singles badminton tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 24 July to 2 August 2021 at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza at Tokyo. A total of 41 players from 36 nations actually competed at the tournament. Viktor Axelsen of Denmark won his first Olympic gold, defeating defending Olympic champion Chen Long from China.
Taiwan's first gold medal Sunday at the 2024 Paris Olympics promptly reignited the geopolitical fervor over ... Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin from Taiwan won first place in badminton men's doubles ...
An Se-young (Korean: 안세영; Hanja: 安洗瑩; born 5 February 2002) is a South Korean badminton player from Gwangju, who won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. [1] She was named 2019’s Most Promising Player of the Year and 2023's Female Player of the Year by the BWF.
In 2018, short track speed skater and two-time Olympic gold medalist Shim Suk-hee spoke out about allegedly being repeatedly raped by her former coach; a 22-year-old triathlete died by suicide in ...
Despite Vitidsarn's impressive performance leading up to the final, Axelsen secured a commanding victory with scores of 21-11, 21-11, thereby successfully defending his Olympics gold medal. [ 9 ] [ 66 ] This achievement made Axelsen the only non-Asian badminton player in history and the only men's singles player after Lin Dan to win two Olympic ...
Lee Yang (Chinese: 李洋; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng; born 12 August 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player. [1] [2] He is the Olympic men's doubles champion in 2020 and 2024, becoming the first unseeded men's doubles pair ever in Olympics history to win consecutive gold medals. [3]