1978 All England Open Badminton Championships Explained

1978 All England Championships
Dates:	–
Number Edition:	68th
Venue:	Wembley Arena
Location:	London
Previous:	< 1977
Next:	1979 >

The 1978 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 15–18 March 1978. The event was sponsored by John Player.^{[1] [2]}

Final results

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Liem Swie King	Rudy Hartono	15–10, 15–3
Women's singles	Gillian Gilks	Saori Kondo	11–1, 11–9
Men's doubles	Tjun Tjun & Johan Wahjudi	Christian Hadinata & Ade Chandra	15–12, 15–8
Women's doubles	Atsuko Tokuda & Mikiko Takada	Emiko Ueno & Yoshiko Yonekura	18-16, 15-6
Mixed doubles	Mike Tredgett & Nora Perry	Steen Skovgaard & Lene Køppen	15-7, 15–4

Men's singles

Seeds

1-2 Rudy Hartono
1-2 Svend Pri
3-4 Flemming Delfs
3-4 Thomas Kihlström
5-8 Morten Frost Hansen
5-8 Liem Swie King

Section 2

Women's singles

Seeds

1-2 Gillian Gilks
1-2 Lene Køppen

Section 2

Notes and References

1. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS152011375&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 The Times (London)
2. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/ The Straits Times (Singapore)