Nantong Jianer Shi Yuqi: Breaking the 10-year "gold medal drought" of national badminton men s singles

After 10 years, it broke the men's singles gold medal drought in the National Badminton World Championships; after 34 years, Nantong Jianer once again took the podium for the men's singles championship of the World Badminton World Championships. At around 0:30 on September 1, Nantong star Shi Yuqi defeated the last champion Kunlavut 2:1 in the men's singles final of the 2025 World Badminton Championships, and made the podium for the singles world championship for the first time in his sports career. The number of world championships in his individual sports career rose to 7.

This is Shi Yuqi's fifth time participating in the World Championships. His best result was to win the men's singles runner-up in 2018. Shi Yuqi participated in this World Championships as the No. 1 seed. Since the start of the competition, he has fully demonstrated his top seed style, defeated six good players all the way, and made it to the podium of the singles world championship as he wished.

The Olympics and the World Championships are two top events in the international badminton world. Previously, Shi Yuqi won the world championships of the Thoms Cup and the Sudiman Cup six times, and now he successfully won the singles championship in the World Championships, marking a new breakthrough in his sports career.

At the 1991 World Championships, Nantong celebrity Zhao Jianhua won the men's singles championship. After 34 years, his fellow villager Shi Yuqi copied the show and continued to write about the new glory of Nantong badminton and even the "cradle of the world champions" Nantong.