Badminton: Pan Am Juniors – 8 medals for Jamaica

Jamaica will contest five finals today plus they won three bronze medals yesterday to equal their last year’s eight medal haul in the individual events of the Pan American Junior Badminton Championships, currently being played in Guatemala City.

Eight year old Shane Wilson will lead the way for Jamaica as he contests the three Under 11 finals. His boys’ doubles partner will be Vinson Chiu of the USA who is also his singles opponent and for mixed doubles he will be partnered by Bianca Hall where he will again oppose Chiu.

Last year’s Under 11 Triple Crown winner Sean Wilson, brother of Shane, had to settle for bronze in the Under 13 singles and mixed doubles where he teamed with Jahvaine Henry but he and Samuel Ricketts will go for gold in the boys doubles final.

The other finalists are Gareth Henry and Chadwick Parsons who will contest the Under 19 boys doubles event. These two won the Under 17 doubles gold in 2006. The other medal going to Jamaica was from the pair of Delsang Lue-Taim and Jordan Roberts who won a bronze in the Under 17 boys doubles.

Over 300 players from fourteen countries are entered for this year’s individual events. The countries represented are: Brasil, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and the USA.

Below is a list of the abovementioned Jamaican medal winners:

UNDER 19

Boys Doubles: Gareth Henry & Chadwick Parsons – through to final.

UNDER 17

Boys Doubles: Delsang Lue-Taim & Jordan Roberts – bronze.

UNDER 13

Boys Singles: Sean Wilson #1 seed – bronze;

Boys Doubles: Sean Wilson & Samuel Ricketts – through to final;

Mixed Doubles: Sean Wilson & Jahvaine Henry – bronze.

UNDER 11

Boys Singles: Shane Wilson #1 seed – through to final;

Boys Doubles: Shane Wilson & Vinson Chiu (USA) – through to final;

Mixed Doubles: Shane Wilson & Bianca Hall #2 seed – through to final.

For individual match results go to: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=23083