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Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand finished with the women's doubles bronze at the BWF World Championships 2026 after losing the semifinal on 22 August 2026 to China's defending champions Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning, 21-18, 13-21, 8-21, in 71 minutes.
The unseeded Indian pair had sealed the medal a day earlier by beating China's fourth seeds Jia Yifan and Zhang Shuxian in the quarterfinal, in 69 minutes.
They are only the second Indian women's doubles pair to win a World Championships medal, after Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's bronze in 2011.
The result extends India's run of winning at least one medal at every edition of the championships since 2011 to 12 consecutive tournaments.
The 30th edition was held at the Indira Gandhi Arena in New Delhi from 17 to 23 August 2026 - India's first time hosting the event since 2009.
World governing body for badminton, recognised by the International Olympic Committee. It organises the World Championships, the Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup and the BWF World Tour. Founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation and renamed BWF in 2006.
P.V. Sindhu won India's first and so far only gold at the BWF World Championships, in 2019 at Basel.
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's 2011 bronze made them the first Indians to win a World Championships medal since Prakash Padukone's bronze in 1983.
Gayatri Gopichand is the daughter of Pullela Gopichand, the 2001 All England champion and long-serving national badminton coach.
Like most BWF events, the World Championships award two bronze medals to the beaten semifinalists, which is why reaching the semifinal secures a medal.
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The annual world badminton championship organised by the Badminton World Federation across five events; not held in Olympic years.
A pair or player not ranked among the tournament's protected entries in the draw, and therefore liable to meet a top seed early.
The indoor stadium in New Delhi that hosted the 2026 BWF World Championships.