Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Badminton World Champions

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Listed below are the former badminton world champions, who have been the gold medal winners at the BWF world championship title events held since 1970.

Some of these badminton players listed below such as Xie Xingfang and more recently Lin Dan, have won the world championship title multiple times.

The current reigning badminton world champions are: Chen Jin of China in the men's singles, and Wang Lin in the women's singles.

List of Former Badminton World Champions - Men players - Men' Singles event.


Badminton World Champions
Country
Chen Jin
China
Lin Dan
China
Taufik Hidayat
Indonesia
Xia Xuanze
China
Hendrawan
Indonesia
Sun Jun
China
Peter Rasmussen
Denmark
Heryanto Arbi
Indonesia
Joko Suprianto
Indonesia
Zhao Jianhua
China
Yang Yang
China
Han Jian
China
Icuk Sugiarto
Indonesia
Rudy Hartono
Indonesia
Flemming Delfs
Denmark



List of Previous Badminton World Champions - Women players - Women's Singles events


Badminton World Champions
Country
Wang Lin
China
Lu Lan
China
Zhu Lin
China
Xie Xingfang
China
Zhang Ning
China
Gong Ruina
China
Camilla Martin
Denmark
Ye Zhaoying
China
Susi Susanti
Indonesia
Tang Jiuhong
China
Li Lingwei
China
Han Aiping
China
Verawaty Wiharjo
Indonesia
Lene Køppen
Denmark
 



The last BWF world championships were held in 2010, and the next ones will be played from 8-Aug-2011 to 14-Aug-2011 at the Wembley Arena in London, England.

Here's a list of the current badminton world champions in the doubles sections.

Men's Doubles: Cai Yun & Fu Haifeng of China.
Women's Doubles: Du Jing & Yu Yang of China.
Mixed Doubles: Zheng Bo & Ma Jin of China.

The past history of badminton by and large has been in the form of the domination of the game from the Chinese players, with Indonesia, Denmark and Malaysia being the tough contenders. However in recent years other Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand have also produced some good players to make the competition even stiffer. This has made

Since 2005, the badminton world championships have become an annual event played once in every year, and a break is taken only during the Olympic years, when the Olympic badminton champion is largerly considered as equivalent to being the world badminton champion.

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