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BWF Worlds: France's Lanier, Korea's An Se Young claim singles crowns in Delhi

Tridib Baparnash
New Delhi, Aug 23 (UNI) The final day of the BWF World Championships 2026 produced a series of new records as France's Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue won the country's first gold medal in the mixed doubles, before Alex Lanier added the men's singles title. Korea's An Se Young also reclaimed the women's singles crown at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here.
Gicquel and Delrue, bronze medallists at the last edition, went two steps further by upsetting top seeds Feng Yan She and Huang Dong Ping of China 22-20, 19-21, 21-15 in an hour and 18 minutes. France then became only the second European nation to win more than one gold medal in a single edition when Lanier defeated Japan's Kodai Naraoka 21-11, 21-11 in just 50 minutes.
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