2017 Badminton Asia Championships
The 2017 Badminton Asia Championships was the 36th edition of the Badminton Asia Championships. It was held in Wuhan, China, from April 25 to April 30. Venue *This tournament was held at Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium. Medal summary Medalists Medal table Men's singles Seeds # Lee Chong Wei ''(semifinals)'' # Chen Long (champion) # Son Wan-ho ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lin Dan ''(final)'' # Tian Houwei ''(first round)'' # Shi Yuqi ''(semifinals)'' # Chou Tien-chen ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ng Ka Long Angus ''(quarterfinals)'' Top half Bottom half Finals Women's singles Seeds # Tai Tzu-ying (champion) # Akane Yamaguchi ''(final)'' # Sung Ji-hyun ''(second round)'' # P. V. Sindhu ''(quarterfinals)'' # Sun Yu ''(second round)'' # Ratchanok Intanon ''(quarterfinals)'' # Saina Nehwal ''(first round)'' # He Bingjiao ''(semifinals)'' Top half Bottom half Finals Men's doubles Seeds # Marcus Fernaldi Gideon / Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo ''(w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Badminton Asia Championships
The Badminton Asia Championships (formerly Asian Badminton Championships until 2006) is a tournament organized by governing body Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia. The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event became null since 1994. At the 2003 event however, there is a controversy when China decided to pull out from the tournament at the last minute. Head coach Li Yongbo said that the tournament did not award any ranking points for the 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give his players more time to rest. Some of the top players were also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low. Championships Individual championships The table below states all the host cities (and their countries) of the Asia Championships. The number of events at each has ranged from one to six, and is given in the right-mos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wang Yilu
Wang Yilyu (; ; born 8 November 1994), sometimes also transliterated as Wang Yilu, Wang Yilv or Wang Yilü, is a Chinese badminton player. He is the reigning mixed doubles Olympic Champion, and was two-time mixed doubles Asian Champion winning in 2018 and 2019. Career Wang competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics partnering with Huang Dongping as the second seeds. The duo won a gold medal after beating their compatriots Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong in the final in a close rubber game. Wang played at the 2021 Sudirman Cup in Vantaa, Finland, and was part of the China squad that lifted the Sudirman Cup trophy. Achievements Olympic Games ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Championships ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Games ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Championships '' Men's doubles '' ''Mixed doubles'' Summer Universiade ''Men's doubles'' BWF World Junior Championships '' Boys' doubles'' '' Mixed doubles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lu Kai (badminton)
Lu Kai (; born 4 October 1991) is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles. He won the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2009 Asian Junior Championships partnered with Bao Yixin, and later at the 2017 Asian Championships with Huang Yaqiong. Achievements Asian Championships ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Junior Championships ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Tour The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, 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 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Mixed doubles'' BWF Superseries The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Li Yinhui
Li Yinhui (; born 11 March 1997) is a Chinese retired badminton player. She won the silver medal at the 2014 Asian Junior Championships in the girls' doubles event partnered with Du Yue. She and Du Yue then made it to the gold medal 2015. Together they won a silver medal at the 2015 BWF World Junior Championships after earning a bronze the previous year. At the 2018 BWF World Championships, Li took a bronze medal in the mixed doubles together with Zhang Nan. Career Li competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Partnered with Du Yue, she finished in the quarter-finals after defeated by the eventual gold medalist Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu of Indonesia in rubber games. Li announced her retirement through her social media account. Chinese media reported that the women's doubles pair Li Yinhui and Du Yue world ranking were removed on 25 January 2022. Based on BWF interview, Li has a complication arising out of pneumonia, which, added to a genetic heart ailm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huang Dongping
Huang Dongping (; born 30 April 1995) is a Chinese badminton player. She is the reigning mixed doubles Olympic Champion, and was two-time mixed doubles Asian Champion winning in 2018 and 2019. Career Huang competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics partnering with Wang Yilyu as the second seeds. The duo won a gold medal after beating their compatriots Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong in the final in a close rubber game. Huang played at the 2021 Sudirman Cup in Vantaa, Finland, and was part of the China squad that lifted the Sudirman Cup trophy. Achievements Olympic Games ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Championships ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Games ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Championships ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Junior Championships ''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Tour (9 titles, 18 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lee So-hee
Lee So-hee (Hangul: 이소희; ; born 14 June 1994) is a South Korean badminton player. She won the women's doubles title at the 2017 All England Open tournament. She also helped the Korean national team to win the world team championships at the 2017 Sudirman Cup. She reached a career high of world no. 2 in the women's doubles in November 2017 partnered with Chang Ye-na. For her achievements in 2017, Lee who affiliated with the Incheon International Airport team, was awarded as the best player of the year by the Badminton Korea Association. As a junior player, Lee was a gold medalists at the 2012 Asian, 2011 and 2012 World Junior Championships in the girls' doubles event. She represented Konkuk University and competed at the Summer Universiade, helped the Korean team clinching the gold medal in the team event in 2013 and 2015, and also won the gold in women's doubles with partner Shin Seung-chan in 2015. Achievements BWF World Championships ''Women's doubles'' As ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chang Ye-na
Chang Ye-na (; ; born 13 December 1989) is a South Korean badminton player who specializes in doubles. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won gold medals at the 2013 Kazan Universiade in the mixed team and women's doubles event partnered with Kim So-yeong. She also won silver medal at the 2013 BWF World Championships with Eom Hye-won. In 2017, she helped the Korean national team to win the world team championships at the Sudirman Cup. Achievements BWF World Championships ''Women's doubles'' Asian Championships ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' Summer Universiade ''Women's doubles'' BWF World Tour (2 titles, 3 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, 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 30 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoo Hae-won
Yoo Chae-ran (born 7 November 1992 as Yoo Hae-won Hangul: 유해원) is a South Korean badminton player who joined the South Korea national badminton team in 2011. At the Asian Championships, she won women's doubles bronze medal in 2013 and silver medal in 2017. Achievements Asia Championships ''Women's doubles'' Summer Universiade ''Women's doubles'' BWF Grand Prix (1 title, 3 runners-up) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 1 runner-up) ''Women's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kim Hye-rin (badminton)
Kim Hye-rin ( Hangul: 김혜린; born 19 May 1995) is a South Korean badminton player. In 2013, she won the mixed doubles title at the Romanian International tournament partnered with Choi Sol-gyu. In 2017, she won the silver medal at the Asia Championships in the women's doubles event. Achievements Asian Championships ''Women's doubles'' BWF World Tour (1 title, 3 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, 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. ''Women's doubles'' BWF Superseries (1 runner-up) The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ayaka Takahashi
is a retired Japanese badminton player who was affiliated with Unisys badminton team. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, two-time Asian Champion, two-time Asian Games silver medalist, and World Championship bronze medalist. Playing for the Unisys team with her regular partner Misaki Matsutomo in the women's doubles, she won five National Championships titles. In the international event, Takahashi and Matsutomo were ranked world number ones in October 2014. They won numerous international titles, including the year-end tournament finals in 2014 and 2018; the historical All England Open in 2016; the Olympic Games in 2016; and also the Asian Championships in 2016 and 2017. The duo won the Badminton World Federation's Female Player of the Year award in 2016. Takahashi was also a member of the victorious Japanese team at the 2017 Asia Mixed Team Championships and of the victorious women's team at the 2018 Asia Team Championships, 2018 Asian Games, and the 2018 Uber Cup. C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Misaki Matsutomo
is a Japanese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympic women's doubles alongside Ayaka Takahashi. Despite playing doubles, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in Mexico. Career overview In 2016, she won the women's doubles gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She and her women's doubles partner Ayaka Takahashi were also honoured with the Female Player of the Year award. They have been playing together for more than ten years, ever since they were schoolmates. Matsutomo and Takahashi became the first pair from outside China to win the women's Olympic doubles title since the 1996 Atlanta Games, giving Japan its second medal in the event after Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa took silver at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Achievements Olympic Games ''Women's doubles'' BWF World Championships ''Women's doubles'' Asian Games ''Women's doubles'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hong Wei
Hong Wei (; born 4 October 1989) is a Chinese professional badminton player. He competed at the 2016 Rio in the men's doubles event, and placed fourth after losing the bronze medal match to Great Britain pair Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis. Achievements BWF World Championships ''Men's doubles'' Asian Championships ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF Superseries The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels are Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consists of twelve tournaments around the world that have been introduced since 2011. Successful players are invited to the Superseries Finals, which are held at the end of each year. ''Men's doubles'' : BWF Superseries Finals tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament : BWF Superseries tournament BWF Grand Prix The BWF G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |