Badminton Pan America

Athletes from Canada, United States and Peru took the Pan Am Junior 2019 podiums.

From July 16 to 20, the Individual Event of the XXVIII Pan Am Junior Championships 2019, was held in Moncton, Canada, with participation of the best Pan Am Junior Players from Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, United States and host Canada.

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Canada led the medals table with 15 gold, 12 silver and 27 bronze. United States got 10 gold, 13 silver and 18 bronze and Peru won 4 bronze medals.

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Canada	15	12	27	54
United States	10	13	18	41
Peru	0	0	4	4

Both Canada and United States exceeded the number of medals obtained in the previous edition, 24 and 38 respectively. Unfortunately, Peru won 9 medals less than in the previous edition (13) and Brazil could not get on the podium in this tournament.

Junior Champions

Brian Yang (CAN), who missed the 2018 edition by and injury, shined in his last Pan Am Junior Championships winning 2 gold and 1 silver in U19 category. Natalie Chi (USA) surprised in Women Singles reaching the podium top, after overcome youth olympic player Fernanda Saponara (PER) in Semifinals.

Crystal Lai and Jonathan Shou-Zheng won 2 golds, 1 together and the other in Doubles with Wendy Zhang and Brian Yang respectly.

U19	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gold	Brian Yang – CAN	Natalie Chi – USA	Brian Yang & Jonathan Shou-Zheng – CAN	Crystal Lai & Wendy Zhang – CAN	Jonathan Shou-Zheng & Crystal Lai – CAN
Silver	Kevin Wang – CAN	Jacqueline Cheung – CAN	Clayton Cayen & Ryan Zheng – USA	Sharon Au & Jacqueline Cheung – CAN	Brian Yang & Catherine Choi – CAN
Bronze	Yunzhi Chen – CAN	Fernanda Saponara – PER	Yunzhi Chen & Colin Jia – CAN	Emily Chan & Johnna Rymes – CAN	Yunzhi Chen & Eliana Zhang – CAN
Bronze	William Hu – USA	Eliana Zhang – CAN	William Hu & Joshua Yuan – USA	Nicole Ju & Tammy Xie – USA	Colin Ji & Jacqueline Cheung – CAN

Canadians Victor Lai and Jeslyn Chow got the Singles U17 titles. Also Lai won gold in Mixed Doubles with Jessica Cheng and bronze in Doubles with Win Liao. While, Jeslyn took the podium top in Women’s Doubles and won bronze in Mixed Doubles with Jadon Tsang.

U17	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gold	Victor Lai – CAN	Jeslyn Chow – CAN	Henry Tang & Joshua Yang – USA	Rachel Chan & Jeslyn Chow – CAN	Victor Lai & Jessica Cheng – CAN
Silver	Andrew S Wang – USA	Bhaavya Manikonda – USA	Ivan Li & Jadon Tsang – CAN	Bhaavya Manikonda & Rachel Ye – USA	Ivan Li & Rachel Chan – CAN
Bronze	Joshua Yang – USA	Netra Shetty – USA	Victor Lai & Win Liao – CAN	Jessica Cheng & Alayna Walia – CAN	Henry Tang & Kodi Tang Lee – CAN
Bronze	San Yuan – CAN	Kalea Sheung – USA	Imanhol Navarro & Remo Blondet – PER	Kodi Tang Lee & Stella Tran – USA	Jadon Tsang & Jeslyn Chow – CAN

In U15, USA got 4 titles with young promises Francesca Corbett and Allison Lee who won 2 golds.

U15	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gold	Josh Nguyen – CAN	Francesca Corbett – USA	Arthur Lee & Jerry Yuan – USA	Francesca Corbett & Allison Lee – USA	Aaron Bai & Allison Lee – USA
Silver	Ryan Ma – USA	Veronica Yang – USA	Julian Lau & Daniel Zhou – CAN	Chloe Ho & Ella Lin – USA	Adam Tay & Chloe Ho – USA
Bronze	Aaron Bai – USA	Ella Lin – USA	Jeffrey Chang & Kyle Wang – USA	Ally Chia & Natalie Nakatsui – CAN	Robert Shekthman & Joline Siu – USA
Bronze	Daniel Zhou – CAN	Alena Yu – CAN	Daniel Leung & Harold Tan – CAN	Fernanda Munar & Rafaela Munar – PER	Jerry Yuan & Olivia Chen – USA

USA also dominated U13 category with 4 titles and 5 silver medals. Linden Wang and Vera Lin won the golds in Singles.

U13	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gold	Linden Wang – USA	Vera Lin – USA	Liam Zhang & Rongpeng Zhou – CAN	Jasmine La & Jasmine Yeung – USA	Garret Tan & Carryssa Caryn – USA
Silver	Anderson Lin – USA	Angie Liu – USA	Ben Tirtohaldi & Linden Wang – USA	Mia Hundley & Emma Wei – USA	Anderson Lin & Sahasra Chada – USA
Bronze	Scott Lin – USA	Emma Wei – USA	Oliver Chen & Ricky Tao – CAN	Katie Lau & Lyric Su – CAN	Scott Lin & Vera Lin – USA
Bronze	Rongpeng Zhou – CAN	Jasmine Yeung – USA	Bosco Lai & Matthew Yu – CAN	Chloe Mak & Helen Pham – CAN	Linden Wang & Alice Wang – USA

Canada showed superiority in U11 category, winning almost all the medals in dispute. Sussana Wang won 2 golds and 1 silver, Ethan Yuen, 2 golds and 1 bronze, John Fu, 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze and Solomong Tong with 1 gold and 2 bronze medals.

U11	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gold	Solomon Tong – CAN	Sussana Wang – CAN	John Fu & Ethan Yuen – CAN	Kelly Liu & Susanna Wang – CAN	Ethan Yuen & Rosey Yin – CAN
Silver	John Fu – CAN	Olivia Yu – CAN	Aayush Saha & Kevin Yang – CAN	Adréa Beaulieu & Olivia Gao – CAN	Kevin Yang & Sussana Wang – CAN
Bronze	Anson Chen – CAN	Adréa Beaulieu – CAN	Solomon Tong & Alan Zhang – CAN	Francesca Carozzi & Ariana Munar – PER	John Fu & Kelly Liu – CAN
Bronze	Ethan Yuen – CAN	Deborah Nian – CAN	–	Rosey Yin & Olivia Yu – CAN	Solomon Tong & Deborah Nian – CAN

The Award Ceremony of the XXVIII Pan Am Junior Championships 2019 was led by Mr. Anil Kaul, president of Badminton Canada and Deputy President of Badminton Pan Am, accompanied by Mr Darryl from LOC, and Mr. Joe Morriset, Badminton Canada Executive Director.

Once again, our athletes showed their best game. We congratulate all the participants who are the future of the Pan-American badminton.

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