26 February, 2024
Dan Bethell roared to his first world medal since 2019 with silver on the BWF Para Badminton World Championships in Thailand.
The present males’s SL3 world primary was eying up his maiden world title however got here brief after falling 14-21, 21-15, 21-14 to India’s Pramod Baghat within the closing.
Bethell cruised by way of his group matches in Pattaya earlier than a dominating 21-1 21-5 efficiency in opposition to Australia’ Kenneth Adlawan within the spherical of 16.
Into excessive depth knockout badminton, Bethell’s hardest battle of the championships up to now got here in his semi-final in opposition to India’s Kumar Nitesh.
After profitable the primary sport, the Paralympic silver medallist was pressured into a 3rd however in the end got here out on high, taking the spoils 21-18 20-22 21-14.
🥈 It’s a silver medal for Dan Bethell as he loses out to Pramod Bhagat 🇮🇳 in an extremely shut match 💔 💪 👏
➡️ All concentrate on Paris 2024 🔥 🔥 #ParaWorldChampionships pic.twitter.com/5DTJQa5BUg
— Badminton England (@BadmintonEnglnd) February 25, 2024
Semi-final victory arrange a battle for the ages as Bethell confronted Bhagat in an actual replay of the 2019 Worlds and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic closing.
The Englishman began off sturdy, profitable the primary sport 21-14 however the tide quickly turned and Bhagat soared to the title, profitable the ultimate two video games 21-15 21-14.
Silver marked Bethell’s third singles world championship medal, after silver in 2019 and bronze in 2015.
Elsewhere, Krysten Coombs and Rachel Choong put up fights within the quarterfinals of the boys’s and girls’s SH6 singles.
Coombs was trailing after his opening sport in opposition to France’s Charles Noakes however pressured a 3rd within the tight contest.
The Paralympic bronze medallist finally fell to a 21-13 20-22 21-13 defeat.
While Choong stormed by way of her spherical of 16 match earlier than shedding out on a spot within the semifinals to China’s Feng-mei Li.
Owen Kilburn and Gobi Ranganathan clinched group stage victory over the Czech Republic’s Lukas Kyncl and Kamil Snadjar within the males’s WH1-WH2 doubles.
Ranganathan additionally linked up with Heidi Manninen within the combined doubles group levels while Sharon Jones-Barnes took half within the ladies’s WH1 singles and doubles.
