Badminton Pan America

Pan Am Para Badminton Athletes participated at 5th Turkish Para Badminton International ENESCUP 2019, tournament held in Antalya city, Turkey, from March 25 to 30.

See full results here.

Pan Am SS6 Champion, Vitor Tavares, won first place in Mixed Doubles along with Oliwia Szmigiel (POL) after beating Wyatt Lightfoot (CAN)/Irina Borisova (RUS) in semifinals (21-12 and 21-15) and Nagar Krishna (IND)/Maria Bartsuz (POL) in the finals. Wyatt reach third place in this modality.

Colleen Giofreda and Jayci Simon (USA) won second place in Women’s Doubles SS6 after won against Irina Borisova/Uliana Podpalnaya (RUS) and Daria Bujnicka (POL)/Nina Kozlova (UKR) but lose against Maria Bartsuz/Oliwia Szmigiel (POL).

Also, Pan Am athletes from Brazil, Canada, Peru, USA and Venezuela had an outstanding participation in this tournament, securing the qualification to Para Pan Am Games Lima 2019.

Now our players will participate at Dubai Para Badminton International this week, continue adding points in the World Ranking looking for the qualification to Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

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