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Susi Susanti
Personal information
Birth nameLucia Francisca Susi Susanti
Country Indonesia
Born (1971-02-11) 11 February 1971 (age 53)
Tasikmalaya, Indonesia
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
HandednessRight
Women's singles
Highest ranking1
Olympic medal record
Women's Badminton
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta Singles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Birmingham Women's Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Lausanne Women's Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Copenhagen Women's Singles
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 1994 Hiroshima Team
Silver medal – second place 1990 Beijing Team
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Hiroshima Women's Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Beijing Women's Singles
Badminton World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1989 Guangzhou Women's Singles
Gold medal – first place 1993 New Delhi Women's Singles
Gold medal – first place 1994 Ho Chi Minh Women's Singles
Gold medal – first place 1996 Jakarta Women's Singles
Gold medal – first place 1997 Yogyakarta Women's Singles
Uber Cup
Gold medal – first place 1996 Hong Kong Team
Gold medal – first place 1994 Jakarta Team
Silver medal – second place 1998 Hong Kong Team
Sudirman Cup
Gold medal – first place 1989 Jakarta Team
Silver medal – second place 1991 Copenhagen Team
Silver medal – second place 1993 Birmingham Team
Silver medal – second place 1995 Lausanne Team

Lucia Francisca Susi Susanti (Chinese: 王蓮香, born in Tasikmalaya, West Java on 11 February 1971[1]) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. Relatively small of stature, she combined quick and graceful movement with elegant shotmaking technique, and rates among the most successful players in the history of the women's game. Sometimes her name is also spelled Susy Susanti.

Career

She won the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain and the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States. She retired from the world badminton circuit not long after her marriage to Alan Budikusuma (who had also won a badminton singles gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics) in February 1997. Susanti was the most dominant women's singles player in the first half of the 1990s, winning the All-England in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, the World Badminton Grand Prix finale five times consecutively from 1990 to 1994 as well as in 1996, and the IBF World Championships in 1993. She is the only female player to hold the Olympic, World Championship, and All-England singles titles simultaneously. She won the Japan Open three times and the Indonesian Open five times. She also won numerous Badminton Grand Prix Series events and five Badminton World Cups. She led the Indonesian team to victory over perennial champion China in the 1994 and 1996 Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions. All of this came during a relatively strong period in women's international badminton. Her chief competitors early in her prime years were the Chinese players Tang Jiuhong and Huang Hua, and, later, China's Ye Zhaoying and the Korean star Bang Soo-hyun.

Susanti was inducted into the International Badminton Federation (IBF, currently BWF) Hall of Fame in May 2004, and received the Herbert Scheele Trophy in 2002.

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