Cynthia Mathez
 Cynthia Mathez in 2021 | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 October 1985 Switzerland | |||||||||||||
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| Country |  Switzerland | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Para badminton, wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||
| Disability class | WH1 | |||||||||||||
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Cynthia Mathez (born 10 October 1985) is a Swiss para-badminton player and curler 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 Karin Suter-Erath in Rodez in 2018. She competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.[1]
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 dependent on a wheelchair. She initially wanted to compete in wheelchair rugby, but her doctors expressed concerns. Then she turned to parabadminton.[1][2]
Mathez first took part in a BWF Para-Badminton World Championships in Ulsan in 2017 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 women's singles WH1 and women's doubles WH1–WH2 events.[1][3] At the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, she took part as the lead for the Swiss curling team.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Cynthia Mathez, Para Badminton". swissparalympic.ch. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ Franz Beidler (2018-12-05). "Die Unaufhaltbare". . Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ "Your sport statistics, one place". bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ "Results". Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Swiss female badminton players
- Swiss para-badminton players
- Swiss female curlers
- Swiss wheelchair curlers
- Paralympic badminton players of Switzerland
- Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- People with multiple sclerosis