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German badminton stars celebrate a strong ninth place at the FISU Games!
Mülheim an der Ruhr is hosting the FISU Universiade 2025, where the German badminton team achieved ninth place.
German badminton stars celebrate a strong ninth place at the FISU Games!
The FISU World University Games 2025 in Mülheim an der Ruhr have come to a successful conclusion with exciting badminton competitions. On the last day of competition, July 20, 2025, the German badminton team secured ninth place in the team competition and impressed as the strongest European team. After a previously disappointing round of 16 exit, the athletes found their way back to winning ways with a strong team performance and positive spirit. That's the tenor of badminton.de.
In the first duel on Sunday, the German players prevailed in the decisive match against Canada. In the mixed doubles, Malik Bourakkadi and Leona Michalski won 13:15, 15:8, 15:13 in a thrilling match. Afterwards, Matthias Kicklitz suffered a narrow defeat against Victor Lai in the men's singles, which resulted in the score being 1-1. But the strength of the men's doubles was evident: Bourakkadi and David Eckerlin won clearly 15:11, 15:5 and put Germany in the lead again. Finally, Miranda Wilson secured the overall victory of 3-1 and the first points for Germany with her victory in the women's singles.
The way to ninth place
Another win against Spain followed later in the day. Here Bourakkadi and Michalski shone again in the mixed doubles with a 15:12, 15:13 success. Kian Yu-Oei contributed a clear victory in the men's singles, while in the men's doubles Simon Krax and Jonathan Dresp won an exciting match in three rounds. With a convincing 3-0 win against Spain, ninth place was secured, which was just to the liking of national coach Johanna Käpplein. She expressed herself very satisfied with her team's performance and is looking forward to the upcoming individual tournament with positive thoughts.
The FISU World University Games 2025, which hosted the mixed team events from July 17th to 20th and the individual competitions from July 22nd to 26th in the Innogy sports hall with a spectator capacity of 4,000, once again demonstrated the growing popularity of badminton. Badminton has been an integral part of the FISU World Games since 2021, after first appearing as an optional discipline in the 2007 Universiade. Further proof of this is that over the years, badminton has attracted numerous Asian countries and the first World University Championship was held in Nicosia, Cyprus as early as 1990 fisu.net reported.
Badminton fans can not only look forward to an exciting team performance, but also to the upcoming individual competitions that are on the program in the next few days. Six medal competitions are on the agenda, including the men's and women's singles as well as the double disciplines and the mixed doubles. An unexpected hit is in the offing, as players from other nations will also do everything in their power to demonstrate their skills.
The mood in the German team and the shared feeling of success could be the decisive advantages for the coming challenges. Preparations for the individual tournaments are beginning and we are excited to see how the German athletes will present themselves in the coming days. There is a lot to win in badminton!