Huang Hua (badminton)
| Huang Hua | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Country |  China |
| Born | November 16, 1969 Guangxi, China |
| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Women's singles | |
| Highest ranking | 1 |
Huang Hua (Chinese: 黄华; born November 16, 1969) is a Chinese female badminton player who won major international titles in the early 1990s.
Career
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's Badminton | ||
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1992 Barcelona | Singles |
Huang and her contemporary Tang Jiuhong were the leading Chinese singles players between the era of Han Aiping and Li Lingwei (most of the 1980s) and the era of Ye Zhaoying (mid to late 1990s. She played on Chinese Uber Cup (women's international) teams that won world team championships in 1990 and 1992. Her singles titles included the Swedish (1990), Thailand (1990), Malaysia (1990, 1992), Korea (1991), Singapore (1991), Japan (1990, 1991), and China (1991) Opens. She was a runner-up in the 1989 World Championships[1] and in the prestigious All-England Championships in 1990.[2] Huang won the 1991 Badminton World Cup[3] held in Macau and was a bronze medalist in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, losing in the semifinal to the eventual winner, Indonesia's formidable Susi Susanti. She became a citizen of Indonesia after marrying the Indonesian businessman Tjandra Budi in 1993 and lived in Klaten, Central Java.
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- Badminton players from Guangxi
- Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic badminton players of China
- Olympic bronze medalists for China
- Olympic medalists in badminton
- Asian Games medalists in badminton
- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Hechi
- Chinese female badminton players
- Badminton players at the 1990 Asian Games
- Chinese emigrants to Indonesia
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics