Badminton
Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match
13:50pm (AUS)
Sunday 15 April
Badminton
Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match
12:50pm (AUS)
Sunday 15 April
At Birmingham 2022 Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith made it through to their second consecutive Commonwealth Mixed Doubles Final finishing with a silver against Singapore. It was no time to rest for Lauren Smith who then headed back onto the court for the Women’s Doubles on the final afternoon of action bringing home another silver alongside Chloe Birch.
Sean Vendy (on his Commonwealth debut) and Ben Lane beat the number one seeds Malaysia to reach the Men’s Doubles gold medal match and went home with a silver.
Plaudits also go to Freya Redfearn who made it to the Women’s Singles round of 16 on her Commonwealth debut. Elsewhere, Callum Hemming and Jess Pugh made it through to the quarter-finals of the Mixed Doubles and Toby Penty made it to the Men’s Singles quarter-finals.
Chris and Gabby Adcock, retained their title despite competing against fellow Team England competitors, Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith who gave the defending champions the hardest match yet, 67 minutes later a title was claimed with Team England taking gold and silver.
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Team England competed in six medal events; singles and doubles for men and women, mixed doubles and the mixed team event.
Team England placed second on the medal table, just narrowly falling behind India with both winning a total of six medals but India grasping one more silver. Team England won two gold, two silver and two bronze.
The speed and intensity of this game makes this the most competitive and compelling racquet sport in the world, which is going to be exhibited at the NEC in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Where everything counts.
Mark is an experienced strategic director with extensive experience (spanning over 25 years) of managing projects, programmes, facilities, people and resources in and with national governing bodies of sport, Sport England/UK Sport, local authorities and the commercial sector.
His proven track record of developing high-performance systems and talent pathways has been invaluable to the Badminton players he leads.
In addition to his Commonwealth Games Team leader role, he has also been a Paralympic Team Leader and deputy Olympic Team Leader.
Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match
Sunday 15 April
Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match
Sunday 15 April