Lu Lan (born 2 May 1987) is a
badminton
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 pe ...
player from
China
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.
Career
In 2004, she won the
Polish Open. In 2006, she won the
Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking.
In 2007, she won the
Denmark Super Series, and was a bronze medalist at the
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
in
Kuala Lumpur
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, losing to the eventual champion
Zhu Lin in the semifinals.
In
2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she lost to
Xie Xingfang
Xie Xingfang (born January 8, 1981) is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former defending two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1.
Her first big title was in girl ...
21–7, 10–21, 12–21 in the semi-finals and was then upset by
Maria Kristin Yulianti
Maria Kristin Yulianti (born 25 June 1985) is an Indonesian badminton player. She is a bronze medalist in Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, women's singles at the 2008 Olympics.
Career 2004
Yulianti played in some s ...
from Indonesia 21–11, 13–21, 15–21 in the bronze medal match. Earlier in 2008 she had reached the final of the prestigious
All-England Championships where she lost a very close match to
Denmark
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's
Tine Rasmussen
Tine Baun (née Rasmussen; born 21 July 1979) is a Danish former badminton player. Most notably, she won the All England Open Badminton Championships women's singles title three times in 2008, 2010, and 2013 – the last of these being her final ...
.
In 2009, she achieved her greatest success to date when she won the
2009 BWF World Championship Women's Singles title in Hyderabad, India. The match was against compatriot, and two times winner of the event (2005 and 2006),
Xie Xingfang
Xie Xingfang (born January 8, 1981) is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former defending two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1.
Her first big title was in girl ...
; winning in two straight games 23–21, 21–12.
After retiring from the tournament in 2013, she continued her education at the
Beijing Sport University
Beijing Sport University (BSU) (), formerly known as "Central Institute of Physical Education" () and "Beijing Institute of Physical Education" (), is a nation-level public university located in Beijing, China. It is one of the National Key Univ ...
. She married Peng Yu in September 2013, and lived in
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
. She then became an official umpire on the
BWF World Tour
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). The competi ...
, the first renowned player who successfully transitioned to an officiating job in the sport.
Achievements
BWF World Championships
''Women's singles''
World Cup
''Women's singles''
Asian Championships
''Women's singles''
World Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
Asian Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in
2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by
Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two levels:
Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
''Women's singles''
:
BWF Superseries Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
tournament
:
BWF Superseries Premier tournament
:
BWF Superseries
The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007.
Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, ...
tournament
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the
Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation since 1983.
''Women's singles''
:
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
:
BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament
IBF International
''Women's singles''
Record against selected opponents
Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.
References
External links
BWF profile*
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1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Changzhou
Badminton players from Jiangsu
Chinese female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of China
Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
World No. 1 badminton players