Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Badminton Indonesia

Badminton is the most popular sport in Indonesia, and the country has produced several great badminton players over the years and has been very successful at the international levels in badminton.

Indonesia's Badminton Success:

Indonesia has won gold medals in Badminton at all the Olympic games held since 1992 Barcelona Olympics when badminton was first introduced as an Olympic sport, till the latest 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Given below is the list of Olympics medal winners in badminton from Indonesia.


1992 Olympics (Barcelona Summer Olympic Games – held at Spain) - Badminton
Badminton Event
Badminton Player name
Country
Medal won
Women’s singles
Susi Susanti Haditono
Indonesia
Gold
Men’s Singles
Alan Budi Kusuma Wiratama
Indonesia
Gold
Ardy Wiranata
Indonesia
Silver
Hermanwan Susanto
Indonesia
Bronze
Men’s Doubles
Rudy Gunawan
Eddy Hartono
Indonesia
Silver
1996 Olympics (Atlanta Summer Olympic Games – held at United States) - Badminton
Badminton Event
Player name
Country
Medal won
Women’s Singles
Mia Audina
Indonesia
Silver
Susi Susanti
Indonesia
Bronze
Men’s Doubles
Rexy Mainaky
Ricky Subagja
Indonesia
Gold
2000 Olympics (Sydney Olympic Games – held at Australia) - Badminton
Badminton Event
Player name
Country
Medal won
Men’s Singles
Hendrawan
Indonesia
Silver
Men’s Doubles
Tony Gunawan
Candra Wijaya
Indonesia
Gold
Mixed Doubles
Tri Kusharyanto
Minarti Timur
Indonesia
Silver
2004 Olympics (Athens Olympic Games – held at Greece) - Badminton
Badminton Event
Player name
Country
Medal won
Men’s Singles
Taufik Hidayat
Indonesia
Gold
Soni Dwi Kuncoro
Indonesia
Bronze
Men’s Doubles
Eng Hian
Flandy Limpele
Indonesia
Bronze
2008 Olympics (Beijing Olympic Games - held at China) - Badminton
Badminton Event
Player name
Country
Medal won
Women’s Singles
Maria KristinYulianti
Indonesia
Bronze
Men’s Doubles
Markis Kido
Hendra Setiawan
Indonesia
Gold
Mixed Doubles
Nova Widianto
Liliyana
Indonesia
Silver



Success at International Badminton Events:

Apart from the Olympics, Indonesia badminton players have done very well over the years at several prestigious international badminton tournaments. Rudy Hartono, the legendary former badminton player from Indonesia, won the prestigious All England badminton championship title eight times.

Apart from Rudy Hartono, there were many other famous Indonesian badminton players in the earlier days such as Liem Swie King, Icuk Sugiarto and many others.

Indonesia has also done very well at the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup Badminton championships, which are men's and women's team events with National teams of several countries taking part. The Sudirman Cup, which is the prestigious mixed team badminton championships that takes place every 2 years, was named after Dick Sudirman, a former Indonesian badminton player, who was also the founder of the Badminton Association of Indonesia.

Top Badminton Players from Indonesia in current times:

29-year old Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia, a former world champion and Olympic Gold medallist is currently ranked no.3 in the world in the men's singles.

In the mixed doubles, the Indonesian pair of Tantowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir are currently ranked no.2 in the world.

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