Badminton: Eighth All-African Junior Championship-Three bronze medals for Seychelles |29 August 2007

The Seychelles team made up of Alisen Camille, Kevin Ghislain, Richie Course, Cynthia Course, Alan Low, Danielle Jupiter and Joel Dubel won the bronze medal of the team event after losing to South Africa in the semifinal.

The South African team eventually won the gold medal following their 3-1 final win over Egypt who beat Mauritius in the other semifinal.

In the ladies’ singles event, Cynthia Course’s march towards the gold medal was stopped in the semifinal and she had to settle for the bronze. South African Shereen Matthews was the ladies’ singles gold medallist.

Seychelles’ third bronze medal was won by the ladies’ doubles pair. Again Course was involved and her partner was Alisen Camille.

It was another South African pair - Jennifer Fry and Candice Mann – who won the ladies’ doubles gold medal.
In fact, South Africa almost made a clean sweep of all the titles in the individual events as Jacob Malielkal won the men's singles title and Reinard Louw teamed up with Jennifer Fry to win the mixed doubles gold.

Jacob Malielkal and Candice Mann settled for the silver medal in the men’s doubles.
The championships were held at the St Joseph College in Gaborone, Botswana.

G. G.