Badminton Asia Championships Explained

Current Season:	2024 Badminton Asia Championships
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Founded:	1962
Website:	www.badmintonasia.org

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

The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event became null since 1994.^[1]

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 the 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give his players more time to rest.^[2] Some of the top players were also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low.

Editions

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the Asia Championships. The most recent games were held in Ningbo in 2024. The number in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country has hosted the championships. The number of events at each has ranged from one to six, and is given in the right-most column.

width=30 Year width=30 Edition width=240 Host City width=50 Events 1962 Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (1) 6 1965 Lucknow, India (1) 1969 Manila, Philippines (1) 5 1971 Jakarta, Indonesia (1) 6 1976 Hyderabad, India (1) 1983 Calcutta, India (1) 6 1985 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2) 5 1987 Semarang, Indonesia (1) 1 1989 Shanghai, China (1) 1 1991 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (3) 5 1992 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (4) 1993 Hong Kong (1) 1 1994 Shanghai, China (2) 5 1995 Beijing, China (1) 1996 Surabaya, Indonesia (1) 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (5) 1998 Bangkok, Thailand (1) 1999 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (6) 2000 Jakarta, Indonesia (2) 2001 Manila, Philippines (2) 2002 Bangkok, Thailand (2)

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width=30 Year width=30 Edition width=240 Host City width=50 Events 2003 Jakarta, Indonesia (3) 5 2004 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (7) 2005 Hyderabad, India (2) 2006 Johor Bahru, Malaysia (1) 2007 Johor Bahru, Malaysia (2) 2008 Johor Bahru, Malaysia (3) 2009 Suwon, South Korea (1) 2010 New Delhi, India (1) 2011 Chengdu, China (1) 2012 Qingdao, China (1) 2013 Taipei, Taiwan (1) 2014 Gimcheon, South Korea (1) 2015 Wuhan, China (1) 2016 Wuhan, China (2) 2017 Wuhan, China (3) 2018 Wuhan, China (4) 2019 Wuhan, China (5) 2022 Manila, Philippines (3) 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates (1) 2024 Ningbo, China (1) 2025 Ningbo, China (2)

All-time medal table

Individual medalists

• Accurate as of 2024 Badminton Asia Championships.

Men's team medalists (1962 – 1993)

Past winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1962	Teh Kew San	Minarni	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Happy Herowati Corry Kawilarang	Lim Say Hup Ng Mei Ling
1965	Dinesh Khanna	Angela Bairstow	Narong Bhornchima Chavalert Chumkum	Angela Bairstow Ursula Smith	Tan Yee Khan Angela Bairstow
1969	Muljadi	Pang Yuet Mui	Punch Gunalan Ng Boon Bee	Kang Young-sin Lee Young-soon	Not held
1971	Tan Aik Mong	Utami Kinard	Indra Gunawan Nara Sudjana	Retno Koestijah Intan Nurtjahja	Christian Hadinata Retno Koestijah
1976	Hou Jiachang	Liang Qiuxia	Ade Chandra Tjun Tjun	Regina Masli Theresia Widiastuti	Fang Kaixiang He Cuiling
1983	Chen Changjie	Yoo Sang-hee	He Shangquan Jiang Guoliang	Fan Ming Guan Weizhen	Park Joo-bong Kim Yun-ja
1985	Zhao Jianhua	Zheng Yuli	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong	Kim Yun-ja Yoo Sang-hee	Not held
1991	Rashid Sidek	Yuliani Sentosa	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong	Chung So-young Hwang Hye-young	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1992		Ye Zhaoying	Jalani Sidek Razif Sidek	Pan Li Wu Yuhong	Joko Mardianto Sri Untari
1994	Foo Kok Keong		Chen Hongyong Chen Kang	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Chen Xingdong Sun Man
1995	Park Sung-woo		Cheah Soon Kit Yap Kim Hock		Liu Jianjun Ge Fei
1996	Jeffer Rosobin	Gong Zhichao	Ade Sutrisna Candra Wijaya	Finarsih Eliza Nathanael	Tri Kusharjanto Lili Tampi
1997	Sun Jun	Yao Yan	Antonius Ariantho Denny Kantono	Huang Nanyan Liu Zhong	Zhang Jun Liu Lu
1998	Chen Gang	Ye Zhaoying	Ha Tae-kwon Kang Kyung-jin	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
1999	Chen Hong		Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon
2000	Taufik Hidayat	Xie Xingfang	Tony Gunawan Rexy Mainaky	Lee Hyo-jung Yim Kyung-jin	Bambang Suprianto Minarti Timur
2001	Xia Xuanze	Zhang Ning	Tri Kusharjanto Bambang Suprianto	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2002	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	Zhou Mi	Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Zhang Jun Gao Ling
2003		Wang Chen	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Lee Kyung-won Ra Kyung-min	Nova Widianto Vita Marissa
2004	Taufik Hidayat	Jun Jae-youn	Sigit Budiarto Tri Kusharjanto	Lee Hyo-jung Lee Kyung-won	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2005	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	Wang Chen	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan		Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam
2006	Lee Chong Wei		Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah	Du Jing Yu Yang	Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir
2007	Taufik Hidayat	Jiang Yanjiao		Yang Wei Zhao Tingting	He Hanbin Yu Yang
2008	Park Sung-hwan		Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Flandy Limpele Vita Marissa
2009	Bao Chunlai	Zhu Lin	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Lee Yong-dae Lee Hyo-jung
2010	Lin Dan	Li Xuerui	Cho Gun-woo Yoo Yeon-seong	Pan Pan Tian Qing	Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying
2011		Wang Yihan	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2012	Chen Jin	Li Xuerui	Kim Gi-jung Kim Sa-rang	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei
2013	Du Pengyu	Wang Yihan	Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Ko Sung-hyun Kim Ha-na
2014	Lin Dan	Sung Ji-hyun	Shin Baek-cheol Yoo Yeon-seong	Luo Ying Luo Yu	Lee Chun Hei Chau Hoi Wah
2015		Ratchanok Intanon	Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong	Ma Jin Tang Yuanting	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir
2016	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Yihan		Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2017	Chen Long	Tai Tzu-ying	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen		Lu Kai Huang Yaqiong
2018	Kento Momota			Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Wang Yilyu Huang Dongping
2019		Akane Yamaguchi	Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan
2020	Cancelled
2021	Cancelled
2022	Lee Zii Jia	Wang Zhiyi	Pramudya Kusumawardana Yeremia Rambitan	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2023	Anthony Sinisuka Ginting	Tai Tzu-ying	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin
2024	Jonatan Christie	Wang Zhiyi	Liang Weikeng Wang Chang	Baek Ha-na Lee So-hee	Feng Yanzhe Huang Dongping

Men's team (1962–1993)

Year	Winners
1962	Malaya
1965
1969
1971
1976
1983
1985
1987
1989
1993

Performances by nation

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1		15	22	6	21	15	79
2		10	3	10	4	8	35
3		2	3	13	8	8	34
4		8		6		2.5	16.5
5		2	1	1	4		8
6			4			1	5
7			3				3
			1	1		1	3
8			1		1	0.5	2.5
9		1		1			2
Total		38	38	38	38	36	188

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			1980
Men's Doubles			1977
Men's Doubles			1980
Women's Doubles			1987, 1989, 1991
Mixed Doubles			1985, 1989, 1991
Men's Singles			1991
Men's Doubles			1985, 1991
Men's Doubles			1985, 1991
Mixed Doubles			1989, 1991
Women's Singles			1995, 1997
Women's Doubles			1997, 1999
Women's Doubles			1997, 1999
Mixed Doubles			1997
Men's Doubles			1997
Men's Singles			1999
Mixed Doubles			2001
Men's Doubles			1999
Men's Doubles			1999
Mixed Doubles			1999, 2003
Mixed Doubles			1999, 2003
Men's Singles			2005
Women's Singles			2005, 2006
Men's Doubles			1995
Men's Doubles			2001, 2005
Men's Singles			2003
Women's Singles			2003
Women's Doubles			2001, 2003, 2006
Mixed Doubles			2001
Mixed Doubles			2005, 2007
Men's Doubles			1997
Men's Doubles			2007
Men's Doubles			2007, 2013, 2015, 2019
Women's Doubles			2010
Women's Doubles			2010, 2011, 2013
Mixed Doubles			2005, 2007, 2013, 2017
Women's Doubles			2005, 2007
Women's Doubles			2009
Women's Doubles			2005, 2007
Women's Singles			2007
Women's Doubles			2011, 2013
Men's singles			2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
Women's Doubles			2014, 2015
Women's Singles			2011
Men's Doubles			2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Men's Doubles			2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Mixed Doubles			2011, 2014, 2015
Mixed Doubles			2011, 2014, 2015
Men's Singles			2010
Women's Doubles			2014, 2015
Men's Doubles			2014
Men's Doubles			2014
Women's Singles			2013
Mixed Doubles			2013, 2017
Men's Singles			2014, 2015
Men's Doubles			2018
Men's Doubles			2018
Mixed Doubles			2018, 2019, 2022
Men's Singles			2018, 2019
Women's Singles			2021, 2022
Women's Doubles			2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
Women's Doubles			2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
Mixed Doubles			2018, 2019, 2022

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				2		4	6
2					4	1	5
			5				5
				4		1	5
					1	4	5
6					4		4
		4					4
					3	1	4
					1	3	4
				2		2	4
					3	1	4
				4			4
13					3		3
			3				3
					3		3
						3	3
			1		1	1	3
			3				3
		3					3
		3					3
				2		1	3
				3			3
					3		3
			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 are the gold medal teams, shown by year as against by country. China has been the most successful and the only country to achieve a full slate of golds which they did in 2011.

Rank	Country									89		92																												22	23	24	Total
1	<	--1962-->					3	3	2				2		4	3	1	4	3	3	1	3	3				1	3	2	3	3	5	4	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	1	3	79
2	<	--1962-->	2		1	4	2					1	1				4	1			3	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1						1					1	1	1	35
3	<	--1962-->			1			2	2			3				1			2	2	1	1	1	2	3	1			2	1	1		1	2	2	1	1						1	34
4	<	--1962-->	3	0.5	1	1						1	2		1	1											2	1			1						1				1			16.5
5	<	--1962-->																																			1	1	2	3		1		8
6	<	--1962-->			1																			1		1	1								1									5
7	<	--1962-->																																				1	1			1		3
	<	--1962-->		1																						1										1								3
9	<	--1962-->		2.5																																								2.5
10	<	--1962-->		1																																						1		2

BOLD highlights the overall winner therefore at that Asia Team Championships

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

China won on superior of silver medal of one silver medal to Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, and Japan none, thus, China became overall winner.

Men's singles

Rank	width=150	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	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	22	23	24	Total
1						X	X	X						X	X	X		X								X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X						15
2				X									X				X		X	X	X	X		X														X	X	10
3		X			X				X	X	X												X										X				X			8
4												X													X															2
																																			X	X				2
6			X																																					1

Women's singles

Rank	width=150	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	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	22	23	Total
1						X		X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X					X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X				X		21
2				X																X		X	X																4
3		X			X				X																														3
							X														X										X								3
																																		X	X			X	3
6			X																																				1
																																X							1
																																				X			1

Men's doubles

Rank	width=150	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	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	22	23	24	Total
1								X	X						X	X			X	X					X		X		X	X	X	X	X							13
2					X	X							X	X			X	X			X	X				X											X			10
3		X		X						X		X											X	X																6
							X				X																	X						X	X				X	6
4			X																																					1
																																				X				1
																																						X		1

Women's doubles

Rank	width=150	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	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	22	23	Total
1							X			X	X	X		X	X	X		X	X				X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X				X	X		21
2				X				X	X								X			X	X	X																	7
3		X			X	X							X																										4
																																	X	X	X			X	4
5			X																																				1

Mixed doubles

Rank	width=150	Country	62	65	69	71	76	83	85	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	22	23	Total
1						X					X	X		X					X					X				X	X				X	X	X	X	X	X	14
2					X					X			X				X			X			X		X							X							8
							X		X						X	X		X			X					X				X									8
3		X	\																								X												2.5
4																															X								1
																						X																	1
6			\																																				0.5

Unofficial Asian Badminton Championships

• In addition to official championships, a few invitational Asian championships were also conducted.

width=30	Year	width=30	Number	width=240	Host City	width=50	Events
align=center	1976		Bangkok, Thailand	4
align=center	1977	align=center		Hong Kong
align=center	1978		Peking, China
align=center	1980		Bangkok, Thailand
1988		Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1976 (I)	Iie Sumirat	Liang Qiuxia	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Sylvia Ng Rosalind Singha Ang	Not held
1977	Yu Yaodong		Tjun Tjun Johan Wahjudi	Liang Qiuxia Liu Xia
1978		Liu Xia	Lin Shiquan Tang Xianhu	Sirisriro Patama Kingmanee Thongkam
1980	Han Jian	Song Youping	Li Zhifeng Yang Kesen	Li Lingwei San Yanqin
1988	Xiong Guobao	Tang Jiuhong	Zhang Qiang Zhou Jincan	Verawaty Fajrin Yanti Kusmiati

See also

• Badminton Asia Junior Championships
• Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships
• Badminton Asia Team Championships

External links

• Historical Results of Asia Championships

Notes and References

1. Web site: Event Overview of the Asian Badminton Championships. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20010710221455/http://www.jvc-abc.com/html/background.html. 10 July 2001.
2. http://www.sportsonline.com.cn/GB/channel12/125/20031015/181694.html 亚洲羽锦赛今日开打　中国队因故退出