BWF World Championships

BWF World Championships
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Current sports event 2015 BWF World Championships
Sport Badminton
Founded 1977
Country BWF member nations
Official logo until 2006

The BWF World Championships (formerly known as IBF World Championships, also known as the World Badminton Championships) is a badminton tournament sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament offers the most ranking points, together with Summer Olympic Games.[1] The winners will be crowned as the "World Champions" and awarded gold medals.[2] However, it does not offer any prize money.[3]

The tournament started in 1977 and was held once every three years until 1983. However, the IBF faced difficulty in hosting the first two events as the World Badminton Federation (which later merged with the IBF to form one badminton federation) hosted the same tournament a year after the IBF World Championships with the same goals. Started 1985, the tournament became bi-annual and played once every two years until 2005. Starting 2006, the tournament was changed to an annual event on the BWF calendar with the goal to give more chances for the players to be crowned as official "World Champions". However, the tournament will not be held once every four years to give way to the Summer Olympic Games.

Location of the World Championships

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the World Championships. The most recent games were held in Jakarta. The number in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country has hosted the championships. From 1989 to 2001 the world championships were held immediately after the Sudirman Cup at the same location.

Host country of the World Championships, these include 2014 event in Copenhagen, Denmark
Year No. Host City Country
1977 I Malmö (1)  Sweden (1)
1980 II Jakarta (1)  Indonesia (1)
1983 III Copenhagen (1)  Denmark (1)
1985 IV Calgary (1)  Canada (1)
1987 V Beijing (1)  China (1)
1989 VI Jakarta (2)  Indonesia (2)
1991 VII Copenhagen (2)  Denmark (2)
1993 VIII Birmingham (1)  England (1)
1995 IX Lausanne (1)   Switzerland (1)
1997 X Glasgow (1)  Scotland (1)
1999 XI Copenhagen (3)  Denmark (3)
2001 XII Seville (1)  Spain (1)
Year No. Host City Country
2003 XIII Birmingham (2)  England (2)
2005 XIV Anaheim (1)  United States (1)
2006 XV Madrid (1)  Spain (2)
2007 XVI Kuala Lumpur (1)  Malaysia (1)
2009 XVII Hyderabad (1)  India (1)
2010 XVIII Paris (1)  France (1)
2011 XIX London (1)  England (3)
2013 XX Guangzhou (1)  China (2)
2014 XXI Copenhagen (4)  Denmark (4)
2015 XXII Jakarta (3)  Indonesia (3)
2017 XXIII Glasgow (2)  Scotland (2)

Past winners

The map shown the countries which at least achieve a bronze medal during the tournament

So far, only 20 countries have achieved at least a bronze medal in the tournament: ten in Asia, eight in Europe, one in North America and one in Oceania. Africa is the only continent that has not won a medal.

At the age of 18, Ratchanok Inthanon became the youngest winner of a singles title at the Championships.[4] Ratchanok was less than 3 months older than Jang Hye-ock was when she won the women's doubles title at the 1995 Championships.[5]

Successful players & national teams

Successful players

Several players have won gold medals in more than one category in a World Championship; this includes:

From 1977 up to 2001, the medals were usually divided among five countries, namely China, Korea, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia. However, in 2003, the winners included seven countries and in 2005 the medal board contained a record high of ten countries.

Tony Gunawan also bears the distinction of winning a gold medal in Men's Doubles, representing two different countries, 2001 partnering with Halim Haryanto for Indonesia and in 2005 partnering with Howard Bach to give the United States its first medal in the competition.

The 2005 edition also brought new faces in the mixed doubles event which had been dominated by China and Korea since 1997. With the retirement of defending champions and two time winners Kim Dong-moon/Ra Kyung-min (Korea), Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir won Indonesia's first mixed doubles gold since 1980 when Christian Hadinata/Imelda Wiguna won it last for Indonesia.

Below is the list of the most successful players ever, with 3 or more gold medals.[6]

Rank Player MS WS MD WD XD Total
1 China Lin Dan 5 5
South Korea Park Joo-bong 2 3 5
China Zhao Yunlei 2 3 5
2 China Gao Ling 3 1 4
China Cai Yun 4 4
China Fu Haifeng 4 4
3 Indonesia Hendra Setiawan 3 3
Indonesia Lilyana Natsir 3 3
China Yu Yang 3 3
China Ge Fei 2 1 3
China Guan Weizhen 3 3
China Han Aiping 2 1 3
China Huang Sui 3 3
South Korea Kim Dong-moon 1 2 3
China Li Lingwei 2 1 3
China Zhang Nan 3 3
China Lin Ying 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 after the 2013 Championships. China has been the most successful in the World Championships ever since its inception in 1977. They were the only country ever to achieve a shutout of the medals which they did in 1987, 2010 and 2011.

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  China 2 3 5 4 3 1 1 3 21 3 3 22 4 3 4 5 5 23 3 3 61
2  Indonesia 1 4 1 3 2 1 2 22 2 2 1 21
3  Denmark 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10
 South Korea 2 1 2 1 21 1 1 10
5  England 1 1 1 3
6  Sweden 1 1 2
 Spain 1 1 2
8  Japan 1 1
 Thailand 1 1
 United States 1 1

BOLD means overall winner of that World Championships

^1 China and Korea are tied with two gold medals. However, Korea won two silver medals and China won none, thus Korea became the overall winner.
^2 China won on superior of silver medal of four silver medals to Indonesia one, thus, China became overall winner.
^3 China won on superior of silver medal of two silver medals to none, thus, China became overall winner.

Men's singles

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  China X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 14
2  Indonesia X X X X X X 6
3  Denmark X X 2

Women's singles

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  China X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 15
2  Denmark X X 2
 Indonesia X X 2
 Spain X X 2
4  Thailand X 1

Men's doubles

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  Indonesia X X X X X X X X X 9
2  China X X X X X X 6
3  South Korea X X X X 4
4  Denmark X X 2
5  United States X 1

Women's doubles

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  China X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 19
2  England X 1
 Japan X 1
 South Korea X 1

Mixed doubles

Rank Country 77 80 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 06 07 09 10 11 13 14 15 Total
1  China X X X X X X X 7
2  South Korea X X X X X 5
3  Denmark X X X X 4
 Indonesia X X X X 4
5  England X X 2
 Sweden X X 2

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 614264167
2 Indonesia 21173371
3 Denmark 10133760
4 South Korea 10132952
5 England 391224
6 Sweden 2259
7 Spain 2002
8 Japan 101112
9 Thailand 1023
10 United States 1001
11 Malaysia 081119
12 Chinese Taipei 0235
13 India 0145
14 Netherlands 0112
 Scotland 0112
16 Hong Kong 0101
17 Germany 0044
18 France 0011
 New Zealand 0011
 Vietnam 0011
Total 112 110 220 442

Medal distribution

Men's singles

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 1441129
2 Indonesia 671326
3 Denmark 241218
4 Malaysia 0415
5 South Korea 0134
6 Chinese Taipei 0101
7 Japan 0011
 Sweden 0011
 India 0011
 Vietnam 0011
Total 22 21 44 87

Women's singles

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 15151949
2 Indonesia 2259
3 Denmark 2035
4 Spain 2002
5 Thailand 1001
6 South Korea 0145
7 England 0123
 India 0123
8 Chinese Taipei 0112
9 Hong Kong 0101
10 Germany 0044
11 Japan 0022
12 Netherlands 0011
 France 0011
Total 22 22 44 88

Men's doubles

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Indonesia 94720
2 China 63716
3 South Korea 46818
4 Denmark 23611
5 United States 1001
6 Malaysia 041014
7 England 0224
8 Japan 0022
 Sweden 0022
Total 22 22 44 88

Women's doubles

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 19131446
2 South Korea 131014
3 England 1135
4 Japan 1067
5 Indonesia 0224
6 Denmark 0167
7 Sweden 0112
8 Netherlands 0101
9 India 0011
 Chinese Taipei 0011
Total 22 22 44 88

Mixed doubles

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 771327
2 South Korea 52411
3 Denmark 451019
4 Indonesia 42511
5 England 25512
6 Sweden 2114
7 Scotland 0112
8 Thailand 0022
9 Chinese Taipei 0011
 New Zealand 0011
 Malaysia 0011
Total 24 23 44 91

References

  1. "World Ranking System". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  2. "Regulations for World Championships". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. "Chin Chai hopes BWF will offer prize money for world meet". The Star. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  4. "World champion Ratchanok Inthanon also a 'devoted' kid". The Indian Express. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  5. Hearn, Don (11 August 2013). "WORLDS Finals – Ratchanok youngest ever singles World Champion". Badzine. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  6. Die Individualweltmeisterschaften im Überblick, Badminton.de

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