Top seed Chen Long proved unstoppable as he retained the singles crown at the badminton world championships on Sunday, with Lee Chong Wei suffering an agonising fourth straight defeat.
There were back-to-back championship victories in the women's singles too, with world No.1 Carolina Marin of Spain beating India's Saina Nehwal to defend her title.
Lee entered the final hungrier than ever for his elusive world title but could not unsettle the Chinese world No.1, who stormed to a 21-14 21-17 victory in just over an hour.
Earlier top-seeded Marin charged to a 21-16 21-19 win over Nehwal to take home her second successive gold medal.
History was made earlier in the day as defending champions Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei became the first pair ever to win three gold medals in the mixed doubles, with a routine victory over Chinese teammates Liu Cheng and Bao Yixin 21-17 21-11.
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