Youngest player in badminton 3 years ago now world’s No. 1 First gold medal challenge in singles in 28 years since Bang Soo-hyun Knee pain is the key

An Se-young looks like she’s holding a gold medal

‘Badminton Queen’ Ahn Se-young (22, Samsung Life Insurance) will return to the Olympic court with a completely different status in three years.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, An Se-young was the youngest badminton player at 19 years old.

An Se-young, who had not yet reached her full potential, lost to the tournament’s number 1 seed, Chen Yufei (China), and was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

An Se-young, who could not hold back her tears, said, “I prepared without regrets and got this level of results. I have to prepare harder.“

Three years have passed since then. Ahn Se-young’s status ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics is completely different from then.

An Se-young won 10 international competitions and was runner-up three times last year, and was awarded the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Female Player of the Year award. 슬롯사이트

Each and every step left a big mark on the history of Korean badminton.

Last March, she won the women’s singles gold medal for the first time in 27 years at the All England Open, the most prestigious badminton tournament, and in July, she defeated Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) to rise to world number one.

At the World Individual Championships in August, she made history by becoming the first Korean singles player to win, and about a month later, at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, she won two gold medals in the women’s singles and women’s team events.

Both gold medals were a feat that was achieved for the first time in 29 years since the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games.

However, that does not mean that Ahn Se-young’s race in preparation for her second Olympics was smooth.

The knee injury she suffered during the gold medal final at the Hangzhou Asian Games has been bothering An Se-young ever since.

Initially, it was thought that he had avoided major injury after receiving a short two-week rehabilitation diagnosis, but a re-examination resulted in the diagnosis that he would have to compete in the Olympics with pain.

Ahn Se-young, who suffered from chronic pain and had a period of rehabilitation where her physical strength declined, showed ups and downs like riding a roller coaster this year.

After winning the Malaysian Open in January, she withdrew from the quarterfinals of the Indian Open the following week due to a thigh muscle injury, and in March, after winning the French Open, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the All England Open due to poor physical condition. 토토사이트