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The only player to have won at least one title in every season of the circuit is Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who is also the all-time record holder of number of Super Series titles won at 46. The record for the most number of tournaments won in a single calendar year is held by Kento Momota of Japan who won an unprecedented ten titles in the ...
The mixed doubles badminton tournament started in the 1996 Summer Olympics. [2] The Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings are used to determine the qualification of the players for the tournament. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles if both are ranked in the world's top 16; otherwise, one quota ...
P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the gold medal at the World Championships and also became the only other woman singles player along with China's Zhang Ning to have won five World Championship medals. [6] Japanese Kento Momota, and the duo Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara retained their titles from the previous edition.
Event and World Ranking MS WS MD WD XD Australia: Chen Hsuan-yu 1 June 1993 (aged 28) 65: Setyana Mapasa 15 August 1995 (aged 25) 23: Gronya Somerville 10 May 1995 (aged 26) 23: 48 Simon Leung 24 November 1996 (aged 24) 48 Austria: Luka Wraber 7 September 1990 (aged 30) 81 Azerbaijan: Ade Resky Dwicahyo
This is a table of all gold medalists in the Badminton World Championships. Since 1983, the event has been held every two years, with it changing to an annual event since 2005 but taking a break during Olympic years.
List of badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics; L. List of Badminton World Cup medalists; S. List of badminton players with the most Superseries, Grand Prix ...
Widely regarded as the greatest badminton player of all time, [3] [4] [5] by the age of 28 Lin had completed the "Super Grand Slam", having won the full set of all nine major titles in the badminton world of his time: Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Thomas Cup, Sudirman Cup, Year-end Finals, Asian Games, and Asian Championships ...
Nehwal also became the first Indian to win two singles gold medals (2010 and 2018) at the Commonwealth Games. Considered one of India's most successful badminton players, Nehwal is credited for increasing the popularity of badminton in India. [14] In 2016, she was conferred the Padma Bhushan – India's third highest civilian award. [15]