The 1969 Uber Cup was the fifth edition of the

Uber Cup The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...

, the women's badminton team competition. The tournament took place in the 1968-1969 badminton season, 18 countries competed.

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won its second title in the Uber Cup, after beating the

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team in the Final Round in

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Teams

18 teams from 4 regions took part in the competition. As defending champion, Japan skipped the qualifications and played directly in the final round of the ''inter-zone'' ties (team matches), effectively the semifinals of the tournament. ;Australasian zone *' (exempt from qualifying rounds) * * ;Asian zone *' (exempt from qualifying rounds) * * * ;European zone * * * * * * * * ;Panamerican zone * * * From the qualifying rounds, four countries progressed to the inter-zone ties. From the Australasian zone,

advanced to the next round after beating

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7-0. From the Asian zone the

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team beat

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

5-2. In the European zone final

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defeated

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6-1. From the Pan American zone,

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advanced to the inter-zone ties after beating

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5-2 and getting a

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from

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Inter-zone playoffs

First round

Second round

Final round

won its second consecutive Uber Cup final, having won the tournament in

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. The Indonesian women won just one of seven matches. That winner was

Minarni Minarni (later Minarni Soedaryanto; 10 May 1944 in Pasuruan, East Java – 14 May 2003 in Pertamina Central Hospital, South Jakarta) was an Indonesian badminton player who won major titles around the world and who represented her country inte ...

who beat the reigning All England champion

Hiroe Yuki (15 November 1948 – 7 September 2011 in Tokyo) was a Japanese badminton player. She won numerous major international titles from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Career Yuki was among the most notable of a cadre of fine players who helped ...

Final round

External links

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*Herbert Scheele ed., The ''International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967'' (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1967) 82–87. *Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 122, 123. {{TUC

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