Cynthia Mathez
Cynthia Mathez is a Swiss para-badminton player who competes in the WH1 category. Mathez is part of the Swiss national para-badminton team and won gold at the European Para Badminton Championships with her doubles partner Ilaria Renggli in Rotherdam in 2023. She competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and 2024 in Paris.
Career
Mathez was initially active as a judoka, rugby player and racing driver. In 2009, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and since 2015, she has been reliant on a wheelchair. She initially wanted to compete in wheelchair rugby, but her doctors expressed concerns. Then she turned to para-badminton.In 2017, Mathez first took part in a BWF Para-Badminton World Championships in Ulsan and reached the quarter-finals in doubles with Karin Suter-Erath. In mixed doubles, she was eliminated from the group stage with Christian Hamböck. In 2018, she was successful at the European Championships in Rodez and won gold in doubles with Karin Suter-Erath, while in singles, she was eliminated in the quarter-finals. At the 2019 World Championship in Basel, she was eliminated in the women's and mixed doubles in the group stage.
Mathez participated in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the Badminton at the 2020 [Summer Paralympics – Women's singles WH1|women's singles WH1] and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – [Women's doubles WH1–WH2|women's doubles WH1–WH2] events. At the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, she took part as the lead for the Swiss Wheelchair [curling at the 2022 Winter Paralympics|curling team].
Achievements
World Championships
Women's singles| Year | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan |  European ChampionshipsWomen's doubles
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