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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