17 September, 2023
Jim Garrett stormed to double gold in a glittering outing on the Masters Senior World Badminton Championships in Jeonju, Korea.
The 75+ age class athlete clinched males’s doubles victory with accomplice Michael John Cox earlier than including a second title to his identify alongside Mary Jenner within the blended doubles.
However two golds weren’t sufficient for Garrett who had already sealed silver in his singles occasion on the Hwasan Indoor Stadium, narrowly dropping out 21-18, 21-19 to Finland’s Carl-Johan Nybergh.
Badminton England loved a raft of medals within the majority of age classes in Korea, with Garrett main the way in which for essentially the most accolades within the 75+ competitors.
There have been a complete of 4 World titles within the prime age vary as Jenner claimed her second title within the ladies’s singles while Linda Coombes and Jan Hewett took the ladies’s doubles by storm.
Hewett additionally walked away with silver alongside Ian Brothers within the blended doubles while Kenneth Tantum and Susie Awcock grabbed bronze.
Within the 70+ age class, Betty Bartlett swooped double gold for England.
Bartlett was made to work for her ladies’s singles title, falling 17-21 within the first recreation earlier than roaring again to take the victory 17-21, 21-11, 21-14.
She then went on to victory within the blended doubles alongside Peter Emptage who additionally loved a silver within the males’s doubles with accomplice Graham Holt.
Tremendous silvers got here flooding in for Cathy Alexander and Sylvia Gill within the ladies’s doubles and Alexander and Graham Michael Robinson within the blended doubles, while Sylvia Penn and Anna Bowskill teamed up for ladies’s doubles bronze to assist England prime the 70+ medal desk.
Carl Jennings clinched a flurry of medals within the 50+ age class, choosing up two silvers and a bronze in Korea.
The badminton star teamed up with Caroline Hale within the blended doubles however misplaced out on the World title in a tense remaining battle in opposition to fellow Badminton England teammate Julie Bradbury and her accomplice Carsten Lesch from Denmark.
A robust efficiency within the first recreation noticed it go 22-20 to Bradbury and Lesch earlier than they clinched the win within the second recreation.
Jennings added one other silver to his assortment within the males’s singles, earlier than grabbing bronze within the males’s doubles with Mark King.
Simon Gilhooly was additionally on the lads’s singles podium with bronze after reaching the semi-finals.
England had been prime of the medal desk within the 55+ class as Bradbury as soon as once more reached the rostrum.
With 50+ blended doubles gold to her identify, the shuttler added a ladies’s doubles bronze with Debora Miller, England’s Betty Blair additionally clinching bronze with accomplice Aileen Travers from Scotland.
Gold got here for Jon Austin and Rajeev Bagga within the males’s doubles, beating Taiwan’s Liu En-hung and Tu Tung-sheng 21-16, 19-21, 21-17 within the remaining.
Within the blended doubles, it was an excellent bronze sweep, with Austin and Miller and Bagga and Elizabeth Austin all making the semi-finals.
Within the 60+ age class, Launa Eyles and Kerry Mullen clinched silver within the ladies’s doubles.
The pair stood as prime seeds going into the competitors, however missed out 21-7, 21-11 to Eire’s Pamela Peard and Sian Williams within the remaining.
Eyles was on the rostrum twice in Korea, grabbing bronze with Gene Austin Joyner within the blended doubles.
Christine Crossley loved a shining silver competitors with second place finishes within the 65+ ladies’s singles and doubles.
Crossley took the primary video games 21-15 in her singles remaining in opposition to Germany’s Heidi Bender, however was quickly overcome and was made to accept silver 21-15, 18-21, 15-21.
However her revenge quickly got here within the type of ladies’s doubles, teaming up with Anne Bridge to down Bender and her accomplice Marie-Luise Schulta-Jansen of their semi-final earlier than clinching a second silver.
Within the 45+ age group, Rebecca Pantaney clinched ladies’s singles bronze after dropping out 23-21, 22-20, 21-18 to Sri Lanka’s Chandrika de Silva in her semi-final.
