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List of famous badminton players with their biographies that include trivia, interesting facts, timeline and life history.
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Zhang Ning is a Chinese retired professional badminton...
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- Female Badminton Players
- Lin Dan. Date of Birth: October 14th, 1983. Age: 40 Years Old. Years Active: 2000 to 2020. Career Records: 662 wins, 131 losses. Handedness: Left. When we talk about the most significant player in Badminton, the name “Lin Dan” is automatically included in the conversation.
- Lee Chong Wei. Date of Birth: October 21st, 1982, Age: 41 Years Old. Years Active: 2000 to 2019. Career Records: 741 wins, 146 losses. Handedness: Right. Born in Malaysia, Datuk Lee Chong Wei is the only Malaysian badminton player with the World no. 1 ranking for more than a year, including a 199-week streak from August 21st, 2008, to June 12th, 2012.
- Gao Ling. Date of Birth: March 14th, 1979. Age: 44 Years Old. Years Active: 1993 to 2009. Career Records: 611 wins, 128 losses. Handedness: Right. Gao Ling is one of the greatest YONEX All-England Champions in the modern era and one of the most successful doubles players in the history of China and women’s Badminton naming four medals to her name, the most by any player.
- Taufik Hidayat. Date of Birth: August 10th, 1981. Age: 42 Years Old. Years Active: 1996 to 2014. Career Records: 413 wins, 138 losses. Handedness: Right. Taufik Hidayat, the Indonesian badminton player, holds the record for the fastest smash (305 km/hr) in the 2006 World Champion.
Mar 22, 2024 · Learn about the legends who shuttle beyond the ordinary in badminton, from Lin Dan to Carolina Marín. Discover their career highlights, playing styles, and contributions to the sport.
Sep 11, 2024 · There are many famous badminton players in India. Listed below are the top 10 among them: 1. P.V. Sindhu. Career Highlights: One of the very famous Indian badminton players among women, P.V. Sindhu, was born on September 5, 1995, in Hyderabad. She has had a career with a great number of appreciable records.
- Lee Chong Wei
- Lin Dan
- Chen Long
- Viktor Axelsen
- Carolina Marin
- Wang Yihan
- Li Xuerui
- Taufik Hidayat
- Ratchanok Intanon
- Tai Tzu-Ying
Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei can lay a claim to being the best badminton player of all time having spent 349 weeks as the top-ranked player in the world. This included a near-four year streak starting in August 2008 which win a stack of titles. Interestingly, Lee won three Olympics silver medals and a further three silvers at the World Championships bu...
While Lin Dan’s career title count at the Super Series, Grand Prix, and World Tour competitions stands at 33 at the moment – and can be expected to swell up as a result, where he scores over Lee Chong Wei is at the big events. This includes gold medals in the men’s singles competitions at the Olympics (in 2008 and 2012 where he beat Lee in the fina...
Another former world number one, Chen Long has waltzed his way into this list and would be one of the best too because of his record across different competitions. Chen Long started playing badminton at just eight and has made a sterling career doing just that. Having won gold medals at the Asian Games in 2010, there was no looking back for Chen wh...
At 1.94 meters (or 6 feet 4 inches), Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen is the tallest badminton player in the world. He is also one of the rare non-Asian player who makes this list of the greatest badminton players of all time. Axelsen has a fair few years to go in his career yet but he has already won the Thomas Cup gold, and another first prize at the 201...
A series of solid showing at the European Championships propelled Spaniard Carolina Marin to fame. When she won women’s singles gold medal at the 2014 and 2015 World Championships, it rocketed her to the number one spot on the BWF Rankings in mid-2015. She went into the 2016 Olympics as the top seed and sure enough, Marin lived up to that billing b...
China’s Wang Yihan makes it to this list of the best table tennis player on account of her string of gold medals in the Uber Cup and Sudirman Cup. However, her best showing at the highest level came at the 2011 London World Championships where she defeated Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Shao-chieh in the final to clinch the gold medal. Wang had earlier won...
It’s interesting to see Li Xuerui did not win as many gold medals at either the Sudirman Cup or Uber Cup and never won the World Cup or World Championships gold either (twice finishing runner-up at the latter). And yet she makes this list on the back of her gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics where she defeated her friend Wang Yihan in the final...
Indonesia’s Taufik Hidayat is an absolute legend of the game, having won singles gold medals at both, the World Championships and Olympics. Having won the Thomas Cup gold in 2000 and 2002, Hidayat made it to his first and only semifinal and made it one better when he was assured of a medal when he won that match. In the title-decider, Hidayat defea...
Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon is one of the most nimble-footed badminton players in the women’s world leading to commentators calling her balletic. While Intanon has never won an Olympics medal, losing in the quarterfinal and round of 16 at the 2012 and 2016 games respectively, she shot to fame with her medals at the 2010 Asian Games and 2012 Uber C...
Taiwan’s Tai Tzu-Ying is on her way to becoming one of the best in the badminton world (that’s if she’s not there already). Now, while she hasn’t won a single medal at the World Championships or Olympics – losing in the round of 16 at both, the 2012 and 2016 Olympics – Tai Tzu-Ying still climbed up to the women’s number one spot in 2016. But that’s...
Lin Dan (Chinese : 林丹; born 14 October 1983) [ 1 ] is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time World champion, two-time World Cup champion, two-time Asian games gold medalist, four-time Asian Champion, as well as a six-time All England champion.
Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan are the greatest mixed doubles badminton team of all time. Their list of accomplishments include the 2012 London Olympic gold, 2016 Rio Olympic bronze, 3 World Championship golds, and 27 Super Series titles as a team.
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