JAKARTA China's women's singles badminton player, He Bingjiao, has decided to retire after winning a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics which has just been completed.
Certainty regarding the hangup of the 27-year-old athlete was announced by the international badminton parent (BWF) on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, evening WIB.
"However, he will continue to play in domestic tournaments," BWF wrote in their official statement.
He Bingjiao played the women's singles final at the 2024 Paris Olympics against the first seed from South Korea, An Se-young. He lost two straight games in the duel.
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The silver medal he won from the 2024 Paris Olympics was the biggest achievement in his career in major tournaments.
He Bingjiao was first recognized after occupying the runner-up position under Japan's women's singles, Akane Yamaguchi, at the 2014 BWF Junior World Championships.
He then managed to beat the same opponent when they met in the Youth Olympic Games finals of the same year when China hosted.
After the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics were completed, He Bingjiao and his compatriots, Chen Yufei, also became the mainstay of China. These two names replaced their senior stars, such as Wang Yihan, Wang Shixian, and Li Xuerui, who retired.
In that year, He Bingjiao was recorded to have won the title at the Japan Open by defeating his compatriot, Sun Yu, and stopping Beiwen Zhang at the French Open.
The next titles pocketed by He Bingjiao are BWF World Tour, Denmark Open, and France Open 2022. In the last two tournaments, he defeated Chen Yufei and Spanish star Carolina Marin.
Marin and He Bingjiao met again in the semifinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. At that time, Marin had won the first game and was ahead in the second game, but then gave up due to injury.
He Bingjiao is part of the team that won the 2024 Uber Cup. Meanwhile, the biggest achievements at the individual level were the bronze medals for the 2018 and 2021 World Championships.
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