2024 Paris Olympics: Korean Badminton Team Confirmed with 12 Players

Enlarge photo Ahn Se-young. AP Yonhap News

The list of Korean national badminton players who will wear the Taegeuk symbol and participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics has been confirmed.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced the list of badminton players (173 players) for the Paris Olympics on the 14th (Korean time). A total of 12 Korean players were named. In the singles event, if two or more players are ranked in the top 16 in the world rankings, and in the doubles event, if two or more players are ranked in the top 8, they will receive two tickets for that event.

In women’s singles, world No. 1 Ahn Se-young and 13th-ranked Kim Ga-eun (Samsung Life Insurance) confirmed their trip to Paris. In women’s doubles and mixed doubles, two Taegeuk Warriors teams will each compete on the Olympic stage. In women’s doubles, world No. 2 Baek Hana (MG Saemaeul Geumgo) and Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) and No. 6 Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport) and Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) will participate. In mixed doubles, world No. 4 Seung-jae Seo (Samsung Life Insurance) and Chae Yu-jeong (Incheon International Airport) and No. 7 Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance) and Jeong Na-eun (Hwasun County Office) will play together. In the men’s doubles, Seo Seung-jae ranked second in the world with Kang Min-hyuk (Samsung Life Insurance) and won the right to participate in two events. Jeon Hyeok-jin (Yonex) will compete in the men’s singles event.

The Korean national team, which won one gold medal (women’s singles), two silver medals (men’s doubles, women’s doubles), and two bronze medals (women’s doubles, mixed doubles) at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, is determined to continue its upward trend at the Paris Olympics. At the previous 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Korea won one bronze medal in women’s doubles.

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2024-05-14 10:07:31
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