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Gunawan was born on 18 June 2004 in Hong Kong, [4] to Chinese-Indonesian parents. [5] His father played for the provincial badminton team when he was in Indonesia. [6] He became interested in badminton and started learning the sport at four years old after watching the Lee-Lin rivalry during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [6]
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Adam Dong (Chinese: 董星宇; pinyin: Dǒng Xīngyǔ; born 14 February 1994) is a Chinese-born Canadian badminton player. [2] He captured the men's doubles gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games and at the 2023 Pan Am Championships. [3] [4]
The Canadian Badminton Association claimed that his Toronto Star articles made him a paid professional. [1] As a professional badminton player, however, Purcell beat all the leading players in the world by 1932. He was declared world champion in 1933 based on his beating the top Canadian, American and British badminton players. [1]
Lu Guangzu (Chinese: 陆光祖; pinyin: Lù Guāngzǔ; born on 19 October 1996) is a Chinese badminton player. [1] In 2018, Lu made into his first final at the Lingshui China Masters. Since then, he both won Australian Open and Canada Open's titles.
This is a list of notable Malaysian sportspeople of Indian origin, including original immigrants who obtained Malaysian citizenship and their Malaysian descendants.. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and define themselves either full or partial Indian origin, whose ethnic ...
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [3] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. [4] Women's singles
Wang and Chen also wrote the first badminton textbook in China, which was published in 1957. [7] During the 1st National Games of China in 1959, they won the men's doubles gold medal. [ 9 ] He won a number of other national championships between 1956 and 1959, but retired as a player in the 1960s owing to injury.