Dan battled back from a game down to win 15-21, 21-10, 21-19 to become the first men’s singles player to win the Olympic title twice.

Shortly afterwards, Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng won the men’s doubles final 21-16, 21-15 against Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen, clinching the fifth and last badminton title for China.