Michelle Li won the Women’s Singles gold medal at XVIII Pan Am Games 2019, held in Lima, Peru, adding her third consecutive gold medal at Pan Am Games.
Defending champion was able to overcome Rachel Honderich (CAN) in two tough games (21-11, 21-19) but with the experience needed to got the crown one more time.
Li reached the final after defeating Bermary Polanco (DOM) and Lauren Villalobos (CRC) in preliminary rounds, Haramara Gaitan(MEX) in Quarterfinals and olympian Iris Wang (USA) in Semifinals.
Rachel Honderich got her fourth Pan Am Games medal (1 silver and 1 bronze at Toronto 2015, and the WD gold at Lima 2019).
Iris Wang (USA) reached the Pan Am Games semifinales one more time and got her second bronze medal (1 bronze at Toronto 2015).
Nikte Sotomayor (GUA) won her first Pan Am Games medal after good victory in Quarterfinals against Fabiana Silva (BRA).
Our Pan Am Athletes added importants points for the Road to Tokyo 2020 Ranking and are more close to the big dream: the Olympic Games.
Congratulations!!
