Silver Medal for Adcock and Bankier at World Badminton Championships 2011
Last week England's Chris Adcock and Scotland's Imogen Bankier won silver in the mixed doubles competition at the Yonex BWF World Badminton Championships 2011. The championships were held 8th - 14th August at Wembley Arena, the venue for next year's Olympic Games. Chris and Imogen had an amazing week beating the 2nd, 4th, 8th and 15th seeds to reach the final against the chinese 1st seeds. An amazing accomplishment, well done.
If you missed the action you can check out all of their matches online through BadmintonWorld.tv:
- R64: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. Toby Ng/Grace Gao
- R32: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. S.Anugritayawon/K.Voravichitchaikul [8]
- R16: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. Shintaro Ikeda/Reiko Shiota [15]
- QF: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. Jiaming Tao/Tian Qing [4]
- SF: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. Tantowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir [2]
- FINAL: Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier vs. Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei [1]