Badminton Asia Championships

Badminton Asia Championships

Current season, competition or edition: 2019 Badminton Asia Championships
Sport	Badminton
Founded	1962
Country	Badminton Asia Confederation member nations

The Badminton Asia Championships (formerly Asian Badminton Championships until 2006) is a tournament organized by the Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.

The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had been played rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event nulled since 1994.

At the 2003 event however, there is a controversy when China decided to pull out from the tournament at the last minute. Head coach Li Yongbo said that the tournament did not award any ranking points for 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give the players more time to rest. Some of the top players also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low.

Championships

Badminton Asia Championships

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the Asia Championships (1988 Asian Badminton Championships was unofficial).

Year Number Host City Country Events 1962 1 Kuala Lumpur Malaya 6 1965 2 Lucknow India 6 1969 3 Manila Philippines 5 1971 4 Jakarta Indonesia 6 1976 5 Hyderabad India 6 1983 6 Calcutta India 6 1985 7 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 1987 8 Semarang Indonesia 1 1988 - Bandar Lampung Indonesia 4 1989 9 Shanghai China 1 1991 10 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 1992 11 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 1993 12 Hong Kong Hong Kong 1 1994 13 Shanghai China 5 1995 14 Beijing China 5 1996 15 Surabaya Indonesia 5 1997 16 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 1998 17 Bangkok Thailand 5 1999 18 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 2000 19 Jakarta Indonesia 5 2001 20 Manila Philippines 5 2002 21 Bangkok Thailand 5 2003 22 Jakarta Indonesia 5 2004 23 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 5 2005 24 Hyderabad India 5

Year Number Host City Country Events 2006 25 Johor Bahru Malaysia 5 2007 26 Johor Bahru Malaysia 5 2008 27 Johor Bahru Malaysia 5 2009 28 Suwon South Korea 5 2010 29 New Delhi India 5 2011 30 Chengdu China 5 2012 31 Qingdao China 5 2013 32 Taipei Chinese Taipei 5 2014 33 Gimcheon South Korea 5 2015 34 Wuhan China 5 2016 35 Wuhan China 5 2017 36 Wuhan China 5 2018 37 Wuhan China 5 2019 38 Wuhan China 5 2020 39 Wuhan China 5

Team championships

Men's team competition started in 1962 and last played in 1993. In 2016, Badminton Asia decided to create a new men's and women's team championships which also serves as qualification tournament for the Thomas and Uber Cups Finals. Another new team tournament using mixed team format, named as Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships (also known as Tong Yun Kai Cup), was initiated in 2017. Both championships are biennial, thus following the same pattern as Thomas & Uber Cups finals and the Sudirman Cup.

Badminton Asia Team Championships

Year	Number	Host City	Country	Events
2016	1	Hyderabad	India	2
2018	2	Alor Setar	Malaysia	2
2020	3	TBD	Malaysia	2

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships

Year	Number	Host City	Country	Events
2017	1	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	1
2019	2	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	1
2021	3	TBD	TBD	1

All time medal table

Badminton Asia Championships

from 1994 to 2019 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton-Asienmeisterschaft).

Badminton Asia Championships

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	62	61	79	202
2	South Korea (KOR)	25	15	36	76
3	Indonesia (INA)	21	24	57	102
4	Japan (JPN)	7	11	21	39
5	Malaysia (MAS)	7	8	16	31
6	Hong Kong (HKG)	4	3	14	21
7	Thailand (THA)	2	5	14	21
8	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	3	11	16
9	India (IND)	0	0	8	8
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	3	3
11	Vietnam (VIE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 NOCs)		130	130	260	520

Badminton Asia Team Championships

from 2016 to 2018.

Badminton Asia Team Championships

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia (INA)	2	0	1	3
2	China (CHN)	1	2	0	3
	Japan (JPN)	1	2	0	3
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	4	4
5	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 NOCs)		4	4	8	16

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships

from 2017 to 2019.

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
2	China (CHN)	1	0	1	2
3	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 NOCs)		2	2	4	8

Past winners

See also: Medalists at the Badminton Asia Championships

Individual competition

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
2019	Kento Momota	Akane Yamaguchi	Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Wang Yilü Huang Dongping
2018		Tai Tzu-ying	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota
2017	Chen Long			Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Lu Kai Huang Yaqiong
2016	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Yihan	Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong		Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2015	Lin Dan	Ratchanok Intanon		Ma Jin Tang Yuanting	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir
2014		Sung Ji-hyun	Shin Baek-cheol Yoo Yeon-seong	Luo Ying Luo Yu	Lee Chun Hei Chau Hoi Wah
2013	Du Pengyu	Wang Yihan	Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Ko Sung-hyun Kim Ha-na
2012	Chen Jin	Li Xuerui	Kim Ki-jung Kim Sa-rang	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2011	Lin Dan	Wang Yihan	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang
2010		Li Xuerui	Cho Gun-woo Yoo Yeon-seong	Pan Pan Tian Qing	Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying
2009	Bao Chunlai	Zhu Lin	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Lee Yong-dae Lee Hyo-jung
2008	Park Sung-hwan	Jiang Yanjiao	Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Flandy Limpele Vita Marissa
2007	Taufik Hidayat		Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah	Yang Wei Zhao Tingting	He Hanbin Yu Yang
2006	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Chen		Yu Yang Du Jing	Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir
2005	Sony Dwi Kuncoro		Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Lee Hyo-jung Lee Kyung-won	Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam
2004	Taufik Hidayat	Jun Jae-youn	Sigit Budiarto Tri Kusharjanto		Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2003	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	Wang Chen	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won	Nova Widianto Vita Marissa
2002		Zhou Mi	Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon	Zhang Jiewen Yang Wei	Zhang Jun Gao Ling
2001	Xia Xuanze	Zhang Ning	Bambang Suprianto Tri Kusharjanto	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2000	Taufik Hidayat	Xie Xingfang	Rexy Mainaky Tony Gunawan	Lee Hyo-jung Yim Kyung-jin	Bambang Suprianto Minarti Timur
1999	Chen Hong	Ye Zhaoying	Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
1998	Chen Gang		Kang Kyung-jin Ha Tae-kwon	Ge Fei Gu Jun
1997	Sun Jun	Yao Yan	Denny Kantono Antonius Ariantho	Liu Zhong Huang Nanyan	Zhang Jun Liu Lu
1996	Jeffer Rosobin	Gong Zhichao	Ade Sutrisna Candra Wijaya	Eliza Nathanael Finarsih	Tri Kusharjanto Lili Tampi
1995	Park Sung-woo	Ye Zhaoying	Cheah Soon Kit Yap Kim Hock	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Liu Jianjun Ge Fei
1994	Foo Kok Keong		Chen Kang Chen Hongyong	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Chen Xingdong Sun Man
1992	Rashid Sidek		Razif Sidek Jalani Sidek	Wu Yuhong Pan Li	Joko Mardianto Sri Untari
1991		Yuliani Sentosa	Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo	Hwang Hye-young Chung So-young	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1988	Xiong Guobao	Tang Jiuhong	Zhang Qiang Zhou Jincan	Verawaty Fajrin Yanti Kusmiati	Not held
1987	Misbun Sidek	Elizabeth Latief	Liem Swie King Bobby Ertanto	Hwang Hye-young Chung Myung-hee	Not held
1985	Zhao Jianhua	Zheng Yuli	Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo	Kim Yun-ja Yoo Sang-hee	Not held
1983	Chen Changjie	Yoo Sang-hee	Jiang Guoliang He Shangquan	Guan Weizhen Fan Ming	Park Joo-bong Kim Yun-ja
1976	Hou Jiachang	Liang Qiuxia	Tjun Tjun Ade Chandra	Theresia Widiastuti Regina Masli	Fang Kaixiang He Cuiling
1971	Tan Aik Mong	Utami Kinard	Indra Gunawan Nara Sudjana	Retno Koestijah Intan	Christian Hadinata Retno Koestijah
1969	Muljadi	Pang Yuet Mui	Ng Boon Bee Punch Gunalan	Lee Young-soon Kang Young-sin	Not held
1965	Dinesh Khanna	Angela Bairstow	Narong Bhornchima Chavalert Chumkum	Ursula Smith Angela Bairstow	Tan Yee Khan Angela Bairstow
1962	Teh Kew San	Minarni	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Happy Herowati Corry Kawilarang	Lim Say Hup Ng Mei Ling

Team competition

Year	Winner
1993	Indonesia
1989	China
1987	China
1985	China
1983	China
1976	Indonesia
1971	Indonesia
1969	Indonesia
1965	Malaysia
1962	Malaya

Badminton Asia Team Championships

Year	Winner
	Men's team	Women's team
2020
2018	Indonesia	Japan
2016	Indonesia	China

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships

Year	Winner
2021
2019	China
2017	Japan

Successful players and national teams

Asian Champions who also became World Champions

List of players who have won Asia Championships and also won the BWF World Championships to become both the Asian Champion and World Champion.

Type	Player	Asian Champion (Year)	World Champion (Year)
Mixed Doubles	Christian Hadinata	1971	1980
Men's Doubles	Tjun Tjun	1976	1977
Men's Doubles	Ade Chandra	1976	1980
Women's Doubles	Guan Weizhen	1983	1987, 1989, 1991
Mixed Doubles	Park Joo-bong	1983, 1991	1985, 1989, 1991
Men's Singles	Zhao Jianhua	1985	1991
Men's Doubles	Park Joo-bong	1985, 1991	1985, 1991
Men's Doubles	Kim Moon-soo	1985, 1991	1985, 1991
Women's Singles	Tang Jiuhong	1988	1991
Mixed Doubles	Chung Myung-hee	1991	1989, 1991
Women's Singles	Ye Zhaoying	1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999	1995, 1997
Women's Doubles	Ge Fei	1994, 1995, 1998, 1999	1997, 1999
Women's Doubles	Gu Jun	1994, 1995, 1998, 1999	1997, 1999
Mixed Doubles	Ge Fei	1995	1997
Men's Doubles	Candra Wijaya	1996	1997
Men's Singles	Sun Jun	1997	1999
Mixed Doubles	Zhang Jun	1997, 2002	2001
Men's Doubles	Ha Tae-kwon	1998, 1999, 2002	1999
Mixed Doubles	Kim Dong-moon	1998, 1999, 2001, 2004	1999, 2003
Mixed Doubles	Ra Kyung-min	1998, 1999, 2001, 2004	1999, 2003
Men's Singles	Taufik Hidayat	2000, 2004, 2007	2005
Women's Singles	Xie Xingfang	2000	2005, 2006
Men's Doubles	Rexy Mainaky	2000	1995
Men's Doubles	/ Tony Gunawan	2000	2001, 2005
Men's Singles	Xia Xuanze	2001	2003
Women's Singles	Zhang Ning	2001	2003
Women's Doubles	Gao Ling	2001	2001, 2003, 2006
Mixed Doubles	Gao Ling	2002	2001
Mixed Doubles	Nova Widianto	2003, 2006	2005, 2007
Men's Doubles	Sigit Budiarto	2004	1997
Men's Doubles	Markis Kido	2005, 2009	2007
Men's Doubles	Hendra Setiawan	2005, 2009	2007, 2013, 2015
Women's Doubles	Du Jing	2006	2010
Women's Doubles	Yu Yang	2006, 2011, 2013	2010, 2011, 2013
Mixed Doubles	Liliyana Natsir	2006, 2015	2005, 2007, 2013, 2017
Women's Doubles	Yang Wei	2007, 2008	2005, 2007
Women's Doubles	Zhao Tingting	2007	2009
Women's Doubles	Zhang Jiewen	2008	2005, 2007
Women's Singles	Zhu Lin	2009	2007
Women's Doubles	Wang Xiaoli	2009, 2011, 2013	2011, 2013
Men's singles	Lin Dan	2010, 2011, 2014, 2015	2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
Women's Doubles	Tian Qing	2010, 2012	2014, 2015
Women's Singles	Wang Yihan	2011, 2013, 2016	2011
Men's Doubles	Fu Haifeng	2011	2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Men's Doubles	Cai Yun	2011	2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Mixed Doubles	Zhang Nan	2011, 2012, 2016	2011, 2014, 2015
Mixed Doubles	Zhao Yunlei	2011, 2012, 2016	2011, 2014, 2015
Men's Singles	Chen Jin	2012	2010
Women's Doubles	Zhao Yunlei	2012	2014, 2015
Men's Doubles	Ko Sung-hyun	2013	2014
Men's Doubles	Shin Baek-cheol	2014	2014
Women's Singles	Ratchanok Intanon	2015	2013
Mixed Doubles	Tontowi Ahmad	2015	2013, 2017
Men's Singles	Chen Long	2017	2014, 2015
Men's Doubles	Li Junhui	2017, 2018	2018
Men's Doubles	Liu Yuchen	2017, 2018	2018
Mixed Doubles	Huang Yaqiong	2017	2018
Men's Singles	Kento Momota	2018	2018

Successful players

Below is the list of the most ever successful players in the Badminton Asia Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.

Rank	Players	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Ge Fei				4	1	5
	Kim Dong-moon			2		3	5
	Ra Kyung-min				1	4	5
	Ye Zhaoying		5				5
5	Gu Jun			4			4
	Lee Hyo-jung				3	1	4
	Lee Yong-dae			3		1	4
	Lin Dan	4					4
	Park Joo-bong			2		2	4
	Ra Kyung-min				1	3	4
	Zhao Yunlei				1	3	4
11	Angela Bairstow		1		1	1	3
	Ha Tae-kwon			3			3
	Lee Kyung-won				3		3
	Taufik Hidayat	3					3
	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	3					3
	Wang Chen		3				3
	Wang Xiaoli				3		3
	Yang Wei				3		3
	Yoo Yeon-seong			3			3
	Yu Yang				2	1	3
	Wang Yihan		3				3

MS: Men's singles; WS: Women's singles; MD: Men's doubles; WD: Women's doubles; XD: Mixed doubles

Successful national teams

Below is the gold medalists shown based by category and countries. China has been the most successful in the Asia Championships. They were the only country ever to achieve a shutout of the medals which they did in 2011.

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	91	92	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	China					3	3	2		3		2	4	3	1	4	3	3	1	3	3				1	3	2	3	3	5	4	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	75
2	Indonesia	2		1	4	2			2	1	1	1			4	1			3	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1						1					35
3	South Korea			1			2	2	1		3			1			2	2	1	1	1	2	3	1			2	1	1		1	2	2	1	1				34
4	Malaysia	3	0.5	1	1				1		1	2	1	1											2	1			1						1				16.5
5	Japan																																		1	1	2	3	7
6	Hong Kong			1																		1		1	1								1						5
7	Thailand		1																					1										1					3
8	England		2.5																																				2.5
9	Chinese Taipei																																			1	1		2
10	India		1																																				1

BOLD means overall winner of that Asia Championships

^1 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.

^2 China won on superior of silver medal to Korea, thus, China became overall winner.

^3 China won on superior of silver medal of three silver medals to Malaysia none, thus, China became overall winner.

^4 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal of four silver medals to South Korea one, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.

^5 China won on superior of silver medal of two silver medals to South Korea none, thus, China became overall winner.

^6 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to South Korea one, thus, China became overall winner.

^7 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to Japan none, thus, China became overall winner.

Men's singles

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	89	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	China					X	X	X		X								X	X	X		X								X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X			16
2	Indonesia			X													X				X		X	X	X	X		X													8
3	Malaysia	X			X				X			X	X		X												X										X				8
4	South Korea															X													X												2
	Japan																																						X	X	2
6	India		X																																						1

Women's singles

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	89	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	China					X		X		X			X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X					X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X				21
2	Hong Kong			X																				X		X	X														4
	Indonesia	X			X				X			X																													4
4	South Korea						X																		X										X						3
5	Chinese Taipei																																					X	X		2
6	England		X																																						1
	Thailand																																			X					1
	Japan																																							X	1

Men's doubles

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	89	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	South Korea							X				X							X	X			X	X					X		X		X	X	X	X	X				13
2	Indonesia				X	X			X								X	X			X	X			X	X				X											10
3	Malaysia	X		X									X			X											X	X													6
	China						X			X					X																	X						X	X		6
5	Thailand		X																																						1
	Japan																																							X	1

Women's doubles

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	89	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	China						X						X		X	X		X	X	X		X	X				X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X				X	20
2	South Korea			X				X	X			X									X			X	X	X															8
3	Indonesia	X			X	X				X							X																								5
4	Japan																																				X	X	X		3

Mixed doubles

Rank	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	87	88	89	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	China					X									X	X		X					X					X				X	X				X	X	X	X	12
2	Indonesia				X								X				X				X			X			X		X							X					8
	South Korea						X					X							X	X		X			X					X				X							8
3	Malaysia	X	X																												X										3
4	England		X																																						1
	Hong Kong																																		X						1
	Thailand																									X															1

See also

• Asian Junior Badminton Championships

External links

• Historical Results of Asia Championships
• All Details Results