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Tetsu Joko/The Yomiuri Shimbun Nami Matsuyama, right, and Chiharu Shida pose for photo holding bronze medals in badminton women’s doubles award ceremony at Paris Olympics on Saturday.
The Japan News
23:08 JST, August 3, 2024
PARIS — Japan’s Chiharu Shida and Nami Matsuyama took bronze after defeating Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan 2-0 in the bronze medal match of women’s badminton doubles at Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Shida and Matsuyama took control of the match from the beginning, winning the first game 21-11, and continued to dominate the second game 21-11.
Japan’s women’s doubles team won silver at the 2012 London Games and gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games but no medals at the Tokyo Games.
