The badminton program at the Tokyo Olympics ends in an exciting and spectacular way with the assignment of the last two titles, for a total of six medals, on the agenda. Let’s see how things went in the men’s singles and women’s doubles tournaments.
MALE SINGULAR
The gold medal, for the first time in his career, is worn by the Danish Viktor Axelsen who with a peremptory 21-15, 21-12 crushes the Chinese rival Chen Long, in a practically one-way final since first few bars of the game. The Odense native, born in 1994, thus comes to fulfill the dream of a career by following up, moreover, the bronze obtained in Rio 2016.
The bronze instead went to the Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting who in the final 3-4th place claimed his highest level to regulate without too many problems (21-11, 21-13) the Guatemalan Kevin Cordon, true revelation of the tournament in but it was not enough to play a beautiful badminton to go home with a medal.
DOUBLE FEMALE
The Indonesian anthem plays at the Musashino Forest Plaza. The credit goes to Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu who signed their personal feat in the women’s doubles tournament by beating in the final, with the clear score of 21-19, 21-15, the very strong Chinese couple made up of Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan (seeded No. 2) to take the first Olympic medal of their career.
In third place of the competition, instead, in the all South Korean derby, Kim Soyeong and Kong Heeyong were placed, able to regulate the most accredited compatriots Lee Sohee and Shin Seungchan (seeded No. 4), with a score of 21-10, 21-17.
Photo: Lapresse
