64-year previous shuttler turns into oldest participant to win match at BWF Worlds
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Some say age is only a quantity. Properly, Israel's 64- 12 months previous badminton participant Svetlana Zilberman has confirmed that by successful within the blended doubles occasion in spherical of 64 on the ongoing Badminton World Championships 2022. With the outstanding victory, she turned the oldest participant ever to win a match on the BWF World Championships.
Svetlana, paired along with her son Misha Zilberman, entered the annals of sports activities historical past with a win over Egyptian World No. 51 pair of Doha Hany and Adham Hatem Elgamal, within the first spherical of Badminton World Championships 2022.
The mother-son duo received 16-21, 21-18, 21-11 in opposition to their opponents to achieve the pre-quarterfinals of the event. After shedding the primary sport, the Zilberman pair made a sensational comeback to win the following two video games and progress to the following spherical of Badminton's biggest occasion.
Badminton World Federation(BWF) acknowledged her extraordinary feat and posted on twitter, "#MondayMotivation, At 64 years previous, Svetlana Zilberman has received her first #BWFWorldChampionships opening spherical match. She made her competitors debut in 2009".
Earlier than Svetlana, the report of being the oldest participant to win at BWF World Championships, was held by America's Mathew Fogharty who had received a match within the males's doubles division of the well-known worldwide competitors in 2003.
Curiously, Svetlana has been enjoying badminton for 41 years now as she had taken half in All England Open, manner again in 1981. She had clinched the bronze medal within the girls's singles occasion on the 1986 European Badminton Championships. In her dwelling nation, she is a well-known title in badminton having received the blended doubles occasion 21 instances within the Israeli Nationwide Badminton Championships. Pairing along with her 33-year-old son Misha, she participated in blended double occasions from 2005 to 2017 within the Israeli Nationwide Badminton Championships and received 12 blended double occasions in a row.
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