The 31-year-old former national player unfortunately died, and he was married for less than 2 months...
On the afternoon of December 11, the Red Star News reporter learned from the relevant person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Badminton Team that Yu Xiaoyu, the coach of the Anhui Provincial Team and the former national player of the Chinese badminton team, accidentally drowned at the age of 31. From last night to today, the news of Yu Xiaoyu's death has been circulating on the Internet, and the source of the information is "Friend Revealed".
The relevant person in charge of the Anhui badminton team confirmed the news of Coach Yu's death to reporters. He told reporters that Yu Xiaoyu was walking on the beach after dinner, slipped on a reef, and unfortunately fell into the sea and drowned. According to reports, Yu Xiaoyu just got married in October this year.
Yu Xiaoyu was born in 1992 and is a native of Anhui Province, and his father, Yu Binglong, is also a badminton player and served as the head coach of the Anhui badminton team.
Yu Xiaoyu began to contact badminton at the age of 9, and after entering the Beijing team, he became teammates with Zhang Nan and Qiao Bin, and the main event was men's doubles, and his teammate was Zhang Wen at that time. Yu Xiaoyu partnered with Xia Huan in 2015 to win the mixed doubles runner-up in the New Zealand Badminton Golden Grand Prix, losing to Zheng Siwei/Chen Qingchen in the final.
Yu Xiaoyu won the men's team championship in the 2017 13th National Games badminton men's team finals, and also won the mixed doubles runner-up of the New Zealand Badminton Golden Grand Prix.
He has competed with Olympic champion Lin Dan many times, and Lin Dan's first national team championship won with Yu Xiaoyu, and he also won a prize of 100,000 yuan at that time.
After Yu Xiaoyu retired from the national team, he served as the head coach of the Anhui badminton team.
Looking at Yu Xiaoyu's social accounts, most of them are videos of training players. His last public appearance was last month, when a player posted that Xiao Yu was training with his players at the training ground.
After learning the sad news of Yu Xiaoyu's death, every member of the team was heartbroken. I hope that Yu Xiaoyu in another world can continue to live happily and go all the way.
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Source: Comprehensive Red Star News, Sina Sports, Orange Persimmon Interactive, etc
Editor: Zang He
Editor-in-charge: Li Jinlei