An Se-young
An Se-young (; born 5 February 2002) is a South Korean
badminton player from
Gwangju, who won the gold medal at the
2024 Summer Olympics in the
women's singles event. She was named 2019’s Most Promising Player of the Year and 2023's Female Player of the Year by the
BWF. She won the gold medal at the
2023 World Championships, making history as the first Korean women's singles player to win the World Championships title. She then clinched the women's singles gold medal at the
2022 Asian Games. An was also a part of South Korea’s gold medal winning teams at the
2022 Uber Cup and at the
2022 Asian Games.
In 2018, An was selected to join the national team and became the first junior high school student on the South Korean national team. She was part of the national junior team that won the mixed team title at the
2017 Asian Junior Championships. An later represented her country at the
2018 Uber Cup in Bangkok and
Asian Games in Jakarta, helping the team win a bronze medal in the former event. In 2019, she clinched her first BWF World Tour title at the Super 300
New Zealand Open, beating the 2012 Olympic gold medalist
Li Xuerui in the final.
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