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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 ...
Her four Olympic badminton medals are the most of any player. She has won titles at almost every top tier tournament in the world. Gao has earned four gold medals (among nine medals in total) at the BWF World Championships, three of them in women's doubles with Huang Sui (2001, 2003, and 2006) and one of them in mixed doubles with Zhang Jun .
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) Hall of Fame is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.It honours both players and other contributors to the sport of badminton.The BWF Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization with the goal to preserve, celebrate, and inspire the sport of badminton around the world.
Lists of badminton players (1 C, 4 P) M. Medalists in badminton (16 C) W. World No. 1 badminton players (204 P)
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] His world championship status was challenged numerous times, but Purcell remained unbeaten until his retirement in 1945. [1]
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 ...
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [120] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Since the Open era of badminton began in late 1979 [3] [4] with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Lin Dan (2004, 2006–2007, 2009, 2012, 2016) holds the record for the most Gentlemen's Singles titles with six.