Alan Budikusuma
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Birth name | Alexander Alan Budikusuma Wiratama | ||||||||
Country | Indonesia | ||||||||
Born | Surabaya, Indonesia | March 29, 1968||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||
Handedness | Right | ||||||||
Event | Men's singles | ||||||||
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Alan Budikusuma (born March 29, 1968 as Goei Djien Phang; Chinese: 魏仁芳) is a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player who excelled at the world level from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
In 1991 he was runner-up to China's Zhao Jianhua at the IBF World Championships in Copenhagen. He won the 1992 Olympic men's singles gold medal at Barcelona, defeating fellow countryman Ardy Wiranata in the final. Among his titles, all in singles, are the Thailand Open (1989, 1991), China Open (1991), German Open (1992), Indonesian Open (1993), World Cup (1993), and Malaysian Open(1995). Budikusuma was a member of world champion Indonesian Thomas Cup teams in 1994 and 1996.
Personal life
He is married to Susi Susanti (王蓮香), a women's badminton Olympic gold medalist (also in 1992) and one of the most accomplished women's players in the history of the sport. He has a younger brother name Yohan Hadikusuma who is also a badminton player but representing Hong Kong.
References
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/alan-budikusuma-1.html
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Indonesian Roman Catholics
- Indonesian people of Chinese descent
- Indonesian badminton players
- Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic badminton players of Indonesia
- Olympic gold medalists for Indonesia
- People from Surabaya
- Olympic medalists in badminton
- Asian Games medalists in badminton
- Indonesian badminton biography stubs
- Indonesian sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs