Mixed Doubles - Women's Singles - Women's Doubles - Men's Doubles Challenge
Win all 4 gold medals for a '5' all-time record
The badminton team will begin their quest for gold in four events at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Saturday. Having already won gold in the women's team event, a gold medal in all four events would be the best Asian Games result ever.
The team will compete in four consecutive semifinals at Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China. There will be mixed doubles, women's singles, women's doubles and men's doubles.
World No. 4 Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yu-jung will take on No. 1 Zheng Tse-wei and Huang Ya-chung (CHN) in the morning mixed doubles.
In women's singles, World No. 1 Ahn Se-young will take on No. 5 He Bingjiao (CHN), and in women's doubles, World No. 3 Kim So-young-Gong Hee-yong will face No. 1 Chen Qing-tian-Zhai-fan (CHN).
In men's doubles, world No. 15 Choi Sol-gyu-Kim Won-ho will face No. 12 Li Yang-Wang Qilin. Women's doubles world No. 2 Lee Sohee-Baek Ha-Na will face No. 4 Yuki Fukushima-Sayaka Hirota (JPN) at 8 p.m. ET.
A gold medal in all four events would give Korean badminton its best Asian Games performance ever with five gold medals, including the women's team gold.
The previous best result at the Asian Games was four gold medals in 1986, 1994, and 2002.
According to the Korea Badminton Association, 카지노사이트랭크 Korea swept the men's and women's team events in Seoul in 1986, with Park Joo-bong and Kim Moon-soo winning gold in the men's doubles and Park Joo-bong and Jung Myung-hee in the mixed doubles.
In 1994, Hiroshima won the women's team event, followed by Soo-hyun Woo in the women's singles, Jang Hye-ok and Shim Eun-jung in the women's doubles, and Yoo Yoo-sung and Jung So-young in the mixed doubles.
At the 2002 Busan Games, Lee Dong-soo and Yoo Yong-sung won gold in the men's team event, Ra Kyung-min and Lee Kyung-won in the women's doubles, and Kim Dong-moon and Ra Kyung-min in the mixed doubles.
Since then, Korean badminton has suffered its worst-ever medal performance at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, and it will be interesting to see if the sport can make a dramatic turnaround with its best-ever performance at the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games. 고스톱