Spaniard Pablo Abián and Turkey's Neslihan Yiğit secured gold medals in the men's and women's badminton singles competitions, respectively, at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games.

Spain and Portugal both made dominant starts to qualifying for the 2021 European Mixed Team Championships.

Double Pan American Games champion Kevin Cordon marched into the semi-finals of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) US Open but European Games gold medallist Pablo Abian was dumped out on quarter-finals day in Los Angeles.

Danish gold in the European Games badminton event grew to three here today as Line Kjaersfeldt, the self-styled “queen” of the sport in her country, produced a suitably regal performance to claim the women’s singles title, shortly before Sara Thygesen and Niclas Nohr earned the mixed doubles gold to add to the one won in the previous night’s men’s doubles.