Badminton

All the Olympic highlights from Japan, set to the national anthem.

Rio 2016 | Olympic Games

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National anthem: The best of Japan in Rio

Japan's Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi take badminton gold at Rio 2016 in a final against Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl.

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Matsutomo and Takahashi triumph in doubles final

Badminton gold medallist Misaki Matsumoto and Ayaka Takahashi talk dogs and emojis.

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Badminton medallists find out how well they know each other off the podium

Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi (JPN) 2 - 1 Christinna Pedersen/Kamilla R. Juhl (DEN)

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Badminton: Women's Doubles Gold Match | Rio 2016 Replays

Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi win gold for Japan in the women's doubles final at Rio 2016.

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Japanese badminton duo clinch gold

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Sweden

Armand

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Mikaela

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Ilia

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China lived up to their billing as the giants of badminton with a 3-1 over Japan to retain the Sudriman Cup in Vantaa, Finland on Sunday (3 October).
Women's doubles Olympic silver medallists Jia Yi Fan and Chen Qing Chen delivered the winning point that allowed their nation to lift

China's Shi Yuqi beats Japan's Momota Kento in the 2021 Sudirman Cup final

Badminton Olympic medallists Jia and Chen deliver a twelth Sudirman Cup for China 

Team Japan have withdrawn all their badminton players from the opening BWF World Tour events of 2021 after Momota Kento, tested positive for Covid-19.
The two-time world champion tested positive during a mandatory PCR test at Narita Airport in Tokyo, as the team were assembling to fly to Thailand on

Japan’s Kento Momota looked in complete control of this tie as he beat B Sai Praneeth in straight games. 

Japan pull players out of BWF World Tour Thailand events as Momota tests positive for Covid

After 11 months out due to injuries sustained in a car crash, Momota Kento claimed his third consecutive All Japan badminton title in Tokyo on Sunday (27 December).
The two-time reigning world champion admitted he was "too cautious" at the start of his final against world no.11 Tsuneyama Kanta, but

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Momota Kento claims third All Japan title on comeback

Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Sayaka have had enough of playing second fiddle.
For the past three years, the Japanese women's double pair have finished runners-up at the Badminton World Federation World Championships.
While some players might be content with three silver medals, the 2018 Asian Champions shared with Olympic Channel

Tokyo 2020 | Olympic Games

Japanese women's doubles pair Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Sayaka

Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Sayaka: Mission gold at Tokyo 2020

Japan's best hope of retaining badminton women's doubles gold is likely to be with Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara. The two-time world champions had been set to battle defending champions Matsutomo Misaki and Takahashi Ayaka for qualification to Tokyo 2020, before the Rio 2016 winning "Takamatsu" pairing was ended when Takahashi announced her retirement from the event. Hear how Matsumoto and Nagahara are approaching the year ahead.

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Japan duo Matsumoto and Nagahara target retiring Takahashi's Olympic gold

Reigning Olympic women's doubles champion Takahashi Ayaka will not defend her title at the Tokyo Games after announcing her retirement, aged 30.
She and Matsutomo Misaki, her partner from when they played together at high school, won Japan's first ever Olympic badminton gold at Rio 2016 to end a long

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Rio 2016 doubles champ Takahashi Ayaka announces retirement

PV Sindhu suffered a shock defeat at the China Open on Thursday.
The newly-crowned world champion lost in three games to Thailand's Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-12, 13-21, 19-21.
There was no joy either for India's men's doubles pair or mixed doubles team, as they also bowed out of the tournament.
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_Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recently won the 2019 Thailand Open_

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recently won the 2019 Thailand Open

PV Sindhu dumped out of China Open

It was a good day for India as the 2019 China Open Super 1000 event got underway in Changzhou on Tuesday, as both the mixed doubles pair as well as the men’s doubles pair advanced through to the next round.
Stunning victory
The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and

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Indians impress on opening day of badminton's China Open

Three defended titles, a maiden world champion, and an undefeated pair.
The 2019 BWF World Championships did not disappoint.
With the best players in the world gathered in Basel, we were treated to a spectacular week of badminton, which threw up a few upsets along the way.
With 247 matches

BWF World Championships - Basel

The BWF World Championships 2019 Women's Singles final match at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland

Badminton PV Sindu and Nozomi Okuhara

Recap the outcome of the Badminton World Championships ahead of Tokyo 2020

Mixed fortunes for Japan as Nozomi Okuhara won her World Championship semi-final but their Rio 2016 women's doubles champions went out.

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National anthem: The best of Japan in Rio

Matsutomo and Takahashi triumph in doubles final

Badminton medallists find out how well they know each other off the podium

Misaki MATSUTOMO
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Olympic Results

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National anthem: The best of Japan in Rio

Matsutomo and Takahashi triumph in doubles final

Badminton medallists find out how well they know each other off the podium

Misaki MATSUTOMO Replays

Olympic Results

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