Han Aiping

Han Aiping
Personal information
Country	China
Born	(1962-04-22) April 22, 1962

Han Aiping (Chinese: 韩爱萍, born April 22, 1962) is a former Chinese badminton player in the 1980s who ranks among the greats of the woman's game. Noted for her superb overhead strokes, she and her teammate, rival, and sometimes doubles partner Li Lingwei dominated international singles play for most of the decade, each winning the IBF World Championships twice, and led Chinese teams to victory in Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions.

She is one of the most successful players at the World Championships, with three gold medals, two of them in singles and another in women's doubles, plus a silver medal in both singles and doubles. At seventeen Han also won the short-lived World Badminton Federation's version of the World Championships in 1979, before China became a member of the International Badminton Federation.

Han retired in 1990 and was inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1998.

Major achievements

Rank	Event	Date	Venue
World Championships
1 1	Singles Women's doubles	1985	Calgary, CAN
1	Singles	1987	Beijing, CHN
2	Singles	1983	Copenhagen, DEN
2	Women's doubles	1987	Beijing, CHN
Asian Games
1	Singles	1986	Seoul, KOR
World Grand Prix
1	Singles	1984, 1988	World Grand Prix finals
Other International Championships
1	Singles	1983, 1988	Japan Open
1 1	Singles Women's Doubles	1983, 1988 1983, 1986, 1987	Badminton World Cup
1	Singles	1984	Dutch Masters
1	Singles	1984	Scananavian Cup
1 1	Singles Women's doubles	1985, 1987 1985, 1986	Hong Kong Open
1	Singles	1985	All England Open
	Doubles	1985
2	Singles	1984	All England Open
1	Singles	1985, 1988, 1989	Malaysia Open
1	Women's doubles	1985	Indonesia Open
1	Singles	1986	China Open
1	Singles	1985, 1988	Swedish Open
1	Singles	1988	German Open