FILE PHOTO: Badminton - Danisa Denmark Open 2019 - Men's Singles - Odense, Denmark - October 15, 2019. Kento Momota of Japan in action in his match against Wong Wing Ki Vincent of Hong Kong. Ritzau Scanpix/Claus Fisker/via REUTERS
TOKYO (Reuters) - World number one badminton player Kento Momota was discharged from hospital on Friday, his sponsor Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, said in a statement, after being treated for injuries sustained in a vehicle collision in Malaysia.
Momota was among four passengers in a van travelling to the airport on Monday when it crashed into the back of a 30-tonne truck, injuring them and killing the driver of the van.
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