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1985 IBF World Championships – Men's Singles
The 1985 IBF World Championships (World Badminton Championships) were held in Calgary, Canada, from June 10 to June 16, 1985. Following the results of the men's singles. Men's top seed Zhao Jianhua Zhao Jianhua () (born 21 April 1965) is a Chinese former badminton player who competed internationally from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He was admired for his speed and power as well as for his deception and technique. Career Zhao won th ... of China withdrew from the tournament after suffering from pneumonia. Main stage Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Finals References * {{DEFAULTSORT:1985 IBF World Championships - Men's Singles 1985 IBF World Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotiabank Saddledome
Scotiabank Saddledome is a multi-use indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Stampede Park in the southeast end of downtown Calgary, the Saddledome was built in 1983 to replace the Stampede Corral as the home of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, and to host ice hockey and figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The facility also hosts concerts, conferences and other sporting championships, and events for the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. It underwent a major renovation in 1994–95 and sold its naming rights, during which its original name of Olympic Saddledome was changed to Canadian Airlines Saddledome. The facility was given the name Pengrowth Saddledome in 2000, after Pengrowth Management Ltd. signed a ten-year agreement. It adopted its current name in October 2010 as Scotiabank signed on as title sponsor. The Saddledome is owned by the City of Calgary, who leases it to the Saddledome Foundation, a non-profit organization, to oversee its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Qiqing
Ding may refer to: Bronze and ceramics * Ding (vessel), a bronze or ceramic cauldron used in ancient and early imperial China * Ding ware, ceramics produced in Dingzhou in medieval China People * Ding (surname) (丁), a Chinese surname and list of people with the name * Duke Ding of Jin (died 475 BC), ruler of Jin * Duke Ding of Qi, tenth century ruler of Qi * Empress Dowager Ding (died 402), empress dowager of the state of Later Yan * King Ding of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty in ancient China from 606 to 586 BC * Ding Darling (1876–1962), American cartoonist who signed his work "Ding" Arts and entertainment * "Ding" (song), by Seeed * Ding, the nickname of Domingo Chavez, a recurring character in Tom Clancy's novels and video games * ''Ding'', a webcomic by Scott Kurtz * D!NG, a spinoff web channel from Vsauce Places * Dingzhou, formerly Ding County and Ding Prefecture, China * Ding railway station, Haryana, India Other uses * (ding) or Gnus, a news reader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Nishiyami
is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi. Possible writings Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *浩, "meaning" *汎 *弘, *宏, *寛, *洋, *博, *博一, *博司, *博史, *弘詩, *大嗣, *博司, *博史, *弘詩, *大嗣, People with the name *, Japanese comedian * Hiroshi Abe (other), multiple people *, Japanese actor *, Japanese astronomer * Hiroshi Abe (war criminal) (born 1922), Japanese soldier *, Japanese screenwriter and film director *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese actor *, Japanese handball player * Hiroshi Hara (other), multiple people *Hiroshi Hashimoto (other), multiple people *Hiroshi Honda (other), multiple people *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese bobsledder *, Japanese film director *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese electrical engineer *, Japanese lepidopterist *, Japanese bryologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gan Rong-Yih
The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to: Places *Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden" China * Gan River (Jiangxi) * Gan River (Inner Mongolia), * Gan County, in Jiangxi province * Gansu, abbreviated ''Gān'' (甘), province of China * Jiangxi, abbreviated ''Gàn'' (赣), province of China Maldives * Gan (Addu Atoll) * Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll) * Gan (Huvadhu Atoll) * Gan (Laamu Atoll) Elsewhere * Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia * Gan Island, an island in the Addu Atoll in the Indian Ocean that used to be an RAF airbase * Gan, Norway, a village in Lillestrøm municipality, Norway * Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France Science and technology * GAN (gene) * Gan (Martian crater) * Gallium nitride, a popular III-V semiconductor * Generative adversarial network, a class of machine learning systems * Generic Access Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Johansson (badminton)
Ulf Johansson (born May 26, 1967) is a former Swedish biathlete. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, Johansson won a bronze medal in the 4 x 7.5 km relay with the Swedish team. His teammates were Mikael Löfgren, Tord Wiksten, and Leif Andersson. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union. Olympic Games ''1 medal (1 bronze)'' World Championships Individual victories ''1 victories (1 In)'' :''*Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships The first Biathlon World Championships (BWCH) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men. The number of events has grown significantly over the years. Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and fina ... and the Winter Olympic Games.'' ReferencesSports Reference 1967 births Living people Swedish male biathletes Biathletes at the 1992 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 1994 Wint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Hall (badminton)
Darren James Hall (born 25 October 1965) is an English retired badminton player who is generally rated as one of the best men's singles players that England has produced and holds the record of 10 National singles titles. Career Hall won a record ten English national singles titles from 1986 until 1999. During the 1993 championships he broke the existing record of five, set in 1981 by his cousin Ray Stevens. He is the only Englishman since the 1930s to win the prestigious Danish Open (1992) in the men's singles. He won the singles gold medal at the 1988 European Badminton Championships, defeating Morten Frost in the final. Hall represented England in a demonstration of badminton at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He then competed in 1992 Summer Olympics in the men's singles. He lost in the second round to Zhao Jianhua, of China, 6–15, 9–15. In 1996, he played in the singles and doubles event. In the singles, he lost to Lee Gwang-jin of South Korea in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Rüsseler
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. An alternative but less common variation of ''Rolf'' in Norway is ''Rolv''. The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is an inscription from the 11th century on a runestone in Forsheda, Småland. The name also appears twice in the Orkneyinga sagas, where a scion of the jarls of Orkney, Gånge-Rolf, is said to be identical to the Viking Rollo who captured Normandy in 911. This Saga of the Norse begins with the abduction of Gói daughter by a certain Hrolf of Berg, (the Mountain). She is the daughter of Thorri, a Jotun of Gandvik, and sister of Gór and Nór. The latter is regarded as a first king and eponymous anchestor of Nórway. After a fierce duell (Holmgang) where none is able to overcome the other, Hrolf and Nór b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sung Han-kook
Sung Han-kook (born November 19, 1963) is a former badminton player and coach from South Korea. Career Sung won the men's singles title at the 1986 U.S. Open Badminton Championships, U.S. Open and earlier that year, he won bronze at the Badminton at the 1986 Asian Games – Men's singles, 1986 Asian Games as well as Badminton at the 1986 Asian Games – Men's team, men's team gold. He was also a part of the team that finished as runner-up at the inaugural Sudirman Cup in 1989 Sudirman Cup, 1989. In 1989, Sung married two-time All England Open Badminton Championships, All England winner Kim Yun-ja. Sung and Kim's daughter Sung Ji-hyun is also a badminton player. After retiring, Sung had a long career as a coach, both for Korean professional teams and for the national team. He became the head coach of the national team in December 2010 and held the post until he was dismissed in August 2012 following a match-throwing scandal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London Olympics. Achiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Díaz González
Roy Díaz González (born 1953) is a former world-class badminton player from Mexico. Something of a child prodigy in the sport, González began touring internationally at fourteen, the age at which he captured the first of his many Mexican national singles titles. He won the Belgian International men's doubles title at fifteen and the Swiss Open men's singles title at sixteen. By his late teens, in the early 1970s, González was competitive with the world's best players, but he never developed the penetrating power, or the deceptive wizardry, which might have allowed him to break through in badminton's biggest events. Nevertheless, he remained a respected and dangerous opponent on the world scene for over a decade, admired for his footwork, stamina, and touch. In 1977 he won men's singles at the first ever Pan-American Badminton Championships."The first Pan-American Championships," ''World Badminton'', July–August 1977, 11. González played in five Thomas Cup The Thomas Cup, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Salazar
Gustavo is the Latinate form of a Germanic male given name with respective prevalence in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. It has been a common name for Swedish monarchs since the reign of Gustav Vasa. It is derived from Gustav /ˈɡʊstɑːv/, also spelled Gustaf, of Old Swedish origin, meaning “staff of the Gods/Goths” or “great royal staff” or "staff of the Geats", derived from the Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ... elements Gautr ("Geat") and stafr ("staff"). Other Swedish variants/derivatives: Gösta, Göstav, Gustafsson, Gustavsson. Such a name is also etymologically indicative of a Slavonic origin (through Swedish) from "Gostislav", a compound word from Old Slavic "Gost'" ("guest") and "slava" ("glory"). Other Slavonic variants/derivatives: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Trapper (badminton)
Chris Trapper (born March 31, 1971, in Buffalo, New York) is an American songwriter and musician, best known as the singer and guitarist of the band The Push Stars. His song “This Time” appeared in '' August Rush''. Early life He is the youngest of 6 children in a working-class family from Buffalo, NY. Trapper relocated to Boston after college. Career He formed The Push Stars with Dan McLoughlin and Ryan MacMillan in Boston. In 1999, the band released their Capitol Records debut “After The Party” and subsequently released two more records before going on hiatus in 2005. Trapper embarked on a successful solo career, touring the globe and releasing nine full-length albums to date. Trapper's songs can be heard in other films including '' There’s Something About Mary'', '' The Devil Wears Prada'', ''Some Kind Of Beautiful''. His songs have appeared on television shows such as '' Pepper Dennis'', ''ER'', and ''Malcolm in the Middle''. In 2018, The Push Stars releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Travers
Dan Travers (also known as Daniel Travers; born 16 June 1956) is a former British badminton player and National coach. About Travers was a bronze medalist at the 1981 World Games, losing out to Swedish pair in semifinals. Travers competed in three commonwealth games in 1978, 1986 & 1990. He is a former Commonwealth games champion of 1986 in men's doubles with Gilliland, first ever player(s) in history of Scottish badminton to be a gold medalist. Until now, they remain only gold medalist from their country. They also reached career high of World no. 2 after their stellar display at the All England in 1982. In 1986 along with Billy Gilliland, they were awarded with BBC Scotland Sportsperson of the year. He became National coach of Scotland in 1997 and later president of BadmintonScotland Badminton Scotland is the governing body for the sport of badminton in Scotland. It aims to govern, encourage and develop the sport for all throughout the country. Established in 1911 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
