Indian National Badminton Championships Explained

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The Indian National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in India since 1934. Until the 1960s, foreign players could compete in the championships, which is why the winners' lists includes Malaysians and Danes (e.g. Erland Kops).

The championships are locally now referred to as the All Indian National Badminton Championships. The National titles in India are the following:

• Men's Singles: Vikas Topiwala Challenge Cup
• Women's Singles: Olympian Badminton Challenge Cup
• Men's Doubles: Calcutta Badminton Cup
• Women's Doubles: All India Badminton Association Cup
• Mixed Doubles: Burdwan Challenge Cup
• Men's Team: Ibrahim Rahimtoola Cup
• Women's Team: Gulab Rai Chadha Cup

List of winners

Year (Venue) !Men's singles!Women's singles!Men's doubles!Women's doubles!Mixed doubles

1st	1934	Vijay A. Madgavkar	no competition	D. Minas V. Minas	no competition	no competition
2nd	1935	T. Banerji	T. P. Boland	Vijay A. Madgavkar B. Roy	T. P. Boland Cameron
3rd	1936	George Lewis	Pearl Goss	Harmarain Hadait	Pearl Goss D. Shandley	N. Knight I. Brydges
4th	1937					George Lewis Novina George
5th	1938			George Lewis Kartar Singh	Pearl Goss K. Minos
6th	1939		Easdon	Harmarain Sahur Ahmed	Easdon Holloway	Kartar Singh Easdon
7th	1940	Chee Choon Keng	Pearl Goss	Dattu Mugwe M. G. Mugwe	P. Cook Catchik	Vijay A. Madgavkar Pearl Goss
	1941	no competition
8th	1942	Prakash Nath	Tara Deodhar	Ashok Nath Prakash Nath	Tara Deodhar Sunder Deodhar	Raja Patwardhan Sunder Deodhar
9th	1943	Devinder Mohan		George Lewis Devinder Mohan		V. N. Iyer Ravibala Chitale
10th	1944			Khandu Rangnekar Dattu Mugwe	Frenee Talyarkhan Mumtaj Chinoy	Prakash Nath Sunder Deodhar
11th	1945	Prakash Nath	Mumtaj Chinoy	George Lewis Devinder Mohan
12th	1946	Devinder Mohan	Sunder Deodhar	Ashok Nath Prakash Nath	Suman Deodhar Sunder Deodhar	Devinder Mohan Sunder Deodhar
13th	1947	S. A. Durai	Tonny Ahm	A. S. Samuel Chan Kon Leong		Tage Madsen Suman Deodhar
	1948	no competition
14th	1949	Devinder Mohan	Pearl Goss	Dattu Mugwe Bala V. Ullal	Acharya Tambe	George Lewis Novina George
15th	1950		Betty Farias	Henry Ferreira Devinder Mohan	Betty Farias Sindhu Phansalkar	Henry Ferreira Betty Farias
16th	1951	Amrit Lal Diwan	Suman Deodhar	Gajanan Hemmady Manoj Guha	Suman Deodhar Sunder Deodhar	Trilok Nath Seth D. H. Devid
17th	1952	Trilok Nath Seth	Sushila Rege	Henry Ferreira Devinder Mohan	Sushila Rege Shashi Bhatt	Henry Ferreira Sushila Rege
18th	1953	Nandu M. Natekar		Gajanan Hemmady Manoj Guha		Nandu M. Natekar Shashi Bhat
19th	1954		Sunder Deodhar		Suman Deodhar Sunder Patwardhan
20th	1955	Trilok Nath Seth	Prema Prashar	Nandu M. Natekar Ravindra. A. Dongre	Prema Prashar Sushila Kapadia	D. N. Dhongade Prama Prashar
21st	1956		Tara Dandige	Nandu M. Natekar R. D. Vimawala	J. Kour Meena Shah	D. N. Dhongade M. Gokhale
22nd	1957		Prema Prashar	D. N. Dhongade R. D. Vimawala	Prema Prashar Sushila Kapadia	Chandrakant Deoras Sushila Kapadia
23rd	1958	Nandu M. Natekar	Sushila Kapadia	Nandu M. Natekar M. K. Bopardikar		Amrit Lal Diwan Meena Shah
24th	1959	Erland Kops	Meena Shah	Erland Kops R. D. Vimawala	Cecilia Samuel Tan Gaik Bee	Erland Kops Tan Gaik Bee
25th	1960	Nandu M. Natekar		Nandu M. Natekar Chandrakant Deoras	Prema Prashar Manda Kelkar	Chandrakant Deoras Prema Prashar
26th	1961					Nandu M. Natekar Manda Kelkar
27th	1962	Suresh Goel		A. I. Sheikh P. J. Banphot	Sarojini Apte Sunila Apte	Chandrakant Deoras Manda Kelkar
28th	1963			Nandu M. Natekar Chandrakant Deoras	Sushila Kapadia Manda Kelkar	Satiash Bhatia Surinder Pannu
29th	1964			Dipu Ghosh Raman Ghosh	Meena Shah Sunila Apte	Chandrakant Deoras Meena Shah
30th	1965	Nandu M. Natekar		Suresh Goel Chandrakant Deoras	Meena Shah Sarojini Apte	A. I. Sheikh Shobha Moorthy
31st	1966	Dinesh Khanna	Sarojini Gogte	Khor Cheng Chye Lee Guan Choong	Shobha Moorthy Manda Kelkar	Nandu M. Natekar Manda Kelkar
32nd	1967	Suresh Goel		Dipu Ghosh Raman Ghosh	Sarojini Gogte Sunila Apte	Dipu Ghosh Sushila Gogte
33rd	1968	Satish Bhatia	Damayanti Tambay	Raman Ghosh Chandrakant Deoras	Damayanti Tambay Joe Phillips	Raman Ghosh Malati Tambe Vaidya
34th	1969	Dipu Ghosh		Dipu Ghosh Raman Ghosh	Shobha Moorthy Morin Mathias	Asif Parpia Rafia Latif
35th	1970	Suresh Goel				Nandu M. Natekar Shobha Moorthy
36th	1971	Prakash Padukone	Shobha Moorthy	Dipu Ghosh Suresh Goel		Asif Parpia Morin Mathias
37th	1972		Rafia Latif	Asif Parpia Anil Pradhan		Satish Bhatia Rafia Latif
38th	1973		Ami M. Ghia	Prakash Padukone Leroy D'Sa	Morin Mathias Vatsala Ramamoorthy	Asif Parpia Morin Mathias
39th	1974			Raman Ghosh Davinder Ahuja	Ami M. Ghia Morin Mathias	Suresh Goel Morin Mathias
40th	1975			Suresh Goel Leroy D'Sa
41st	1976			Prakash Padukone Leroy D'Sa	Ami M. Ghia Morin D'Souza	Suresh Goel Morin D'Souza
42nd	1977		Kanwal Thakur Singh		Latha Kailash Noreen Padua	P. G. Chengappa Uma Moorthy
43rd	1978			Pradeep S. Gandhe Sanjay Sharma	Kanwal Thakur Singh Ami M. Ghia	Satish Bhatia Latha Kailash
44th	1979		Ami M. Ghia	Prakash Padukone Kiran Kaushik	Ami M. Ghia Morin D'Souza	Parthasarathy B. Raman
45th	1980	Syed Modi		Partho Ganguli P. G. Chengappa	Radhika Bose Ami M. Ghia	Leroy D'sa Ami M. Ghia
46th	1981		Madhumita Bisht	Partho Ganguli Vikam Singh	Kanwal Thakur Singh Sunita	Sanat Misra Madhumita Goswami
47th	1982		Radhika Bose	Uday Pawar Pradeep S. Gandhe	Radhika Bose Ami M. Ghia	Partho Ganguli Ami M. Ghia
48th	1983		Ami M. Ghia	Leroy D'Sa Sanat Misra		P. G. Chengappa Radhika Bose
49th	1984		Madhumita Bisht		Ami M. Ghia Deepti Thanekar	Pradeep S. Gandhe Ami M. Ghia
50th	1985			Partho Ganguli Vikram Singh	Madhumita Bisht Mallika Barua
51st	1986			Leroy D'Sa Sanat Misra	Madhumita Bisht Ami M. Ghia	Sanat Misra Madhumita Bisht
52nd	1987			Uday Pawar Ravi Kunte	Madhumita Bisht Ami M. Ghia
53rd	1988	U. Vimal Kumar		Prakash Padukone Vinod Kumar
54th	1989			Partho Ganguli Vikam Singh		Harjeet Singh Madhumita Bisht
55th	1990	George Thomas		Uday Pawar Vinod Kumar	Madhumita Bisht Sudha Padmanabhan
56th	1991	Rajeev Bagga	Manjusha Pawangadkar		Manjusha Pawangadkar Archana Deodhar	Harjeet Singh Sindhu Gulati
57th	1992			George Thomas Jaseel P. Ismail
58th	1993	Dipankar Bhattacharjee		Vinod Kumar Bhushan Akut	Nancy Keith Sindhu Gulati	Anil Nair Archana Deodhar
59th	1994		P.V.V. Lakshmi			Vinod Kumar Madhumita Bisht
60th	1995			Jaseel P. Ismail Vijaydeep Singh	P.V.V. Lakshmi P. V. Sharada
61st	1996	Pullela Gopichand	Manjusha Pawangadkar	Jaseel P. Ismail Vijaydeep Singh	Manjusha Kanwar Archana Deodhar
62nd	1997		Aparna Popat	Rajeev Bagga Vinod Kumar	Madhumita Bisht Sindhu Gulati
63rd^[1]	1998			Jaseel P. Ismail Vincent Lobo	Manjusha Kanwar Archana Deodhar	Vincent Lobo Archana Deodhar
64th^[2]	1999			Markose Bristow Vijaydeep Singh	Madhumita Bisht P. V. V. Lakshmi	Jaseel P. Ismail Manjusha Kanwar
65th^[3]	2000			Vincent Lobo Jaseel P. Ismail	Jwala Gutta Shruti Kurien	Vincent Lobo Madhumita Bisht
66th^[4]	2001	Abhinn Shyam Gupta		Sanave Thomas Valiyaveetil Diju	Neelima Chowdary D. Swetha	Markose Bristow Madhumita Bisht
67th^[5]	2002			Markose Bristow Rupesh Kumar	Jwala Gutta Shruti Kurien	Jaseel P. Ismail Manjusha Kanwar
68th^[6]	2003	Chetan Anand				Pullela Gopichand Jwala Gutta
69th^[7]	2004	Anup Sridhar		Rupesh Kumar Sanave Thomas		Markose Bristow B. R. Meenakshi
70th^[8]	2005					Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta
71st^[9]	2006	Chetan Anand	Saina Nehwal			Valiyaveetil Diju Aparna Balan
72nd^[10]	2007					Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta
73rd^[11]	2008	Arvind Bhat	Sayali Gokhale
74th^[12] ^[13]	2009	Chetan Anand	Trupti Murgunde		Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa
75th^[14] ^[15]	2010	Arvind Bhat	Aditi Mutatkar		Aparna Balan Prajakta Sawant	Pranav Chopra Prajakta Sawant
76th^[16] ^[17]	2011	Sourabh Verma	P. V. Sindhu	Tarun Kona Arun Vishnu	Prajakta Sawant Pradnya Gadre	Arun Vishnu Aparna Balan
77th^[18] ^[19]	2012	Parupalli Kashyap	Sayali Gokhale	Manu Attri Sumeeth Reddy B	Aparna Balan N. Sikki Reddy
78th^[20]	2013	Srikanth Kidambi	P. V. Sindhu	Pranav Chopra Akshay Dewalkar	Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa
79th^[21] ^[22]	2014	B. Sai Praneeth	Ruthvika Shivani	Manu Attri B. Sumeeth Reddy	Pradnya Gadre N. Sikki Reddy
80th^[23] ^[24]	2015	Sameer Verma	P. C. Thulasi	Pranav Chopra Akshay Dewalkar
81st^[25] ^[26]	2016	Sourabh Verma	Rituparna Das	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Aparna Balan Prajakta Sawant	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy K. Maneesha
82nd^[27]	2017	H. S. Prannoy	Saina Nehwal	Manu Attri B. Sumeeth Reddy	Ashwini Ponnappa N. Sikki Reddy	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Ashwini Ponnappa
83rd^[28] ^[29]	2018	Sourabh Verma		Pranav Chopra Chirag Shetty	Shikha Gautam Ashwini Bhat K	Manu Attri K. Maneesha
84th^[30]	2023	Mithun Manjunath	Anupama Upadhyaya	Kushal Raj S. Prakash Raj S.	Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand	T. Hemanagendra Babu Kanika Kanwal
85th^[31]	2023	Chirag Sen	Anmol Kharb	K. Pruthvi Roy Suraj Goala	Shruti Mishra Priya Devi Konjengbam	Dhruv Kapila Tanisha Crasto

See also

• Badminton in India
• Badminton Association of India
• India national badminton team

External links

• Badminton Association of India: National Winners

Notes and References

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