Tournament details | |||
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Dates | 4–8 December | ||
Edition | 14 | ||
Total prize money | US$350,000 | ||
Location | Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia | ||
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The 1996 World Badminton Grand Prix was the 14th edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix finals. It was held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, from December 4 to December 8, 1996. The prize money was US$ 350,000.
Category | Winners | Runners-up | Score |
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Men's singles | Fung Permadi | Sun Jun | 15–12, 15–8 |
Women's singles | Susi Susanti | Ye Zhaoying | 11–4, 11–1 |
Men's doubles | Ricky Subagja & Rexy Mainaky | Cheah Soon Kit & Yap Kim Hock | 15–4, 15–9 |
Women's doubles | Ge Fei & Gu Jun | Eliza Nathanael & Resiana Zelin | 15–4, 15–4 |
Mixed doubles | Michael Søgaard & Rikke Olsen | Trikus Heryanto & Minarti Timur | 15–10, 15–11 |
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
1 | Ge Fei Gu Jun | 15 | 10 | 15 | |||||||||
3 | Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen Marlene Thomsen | 8 | 15 | 7 | |||||||||
1 | Ge Fei Gu Jun | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
2 | Eliza Nathanael Zelin Resiana | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
4 | Qin Yiyuan Tang Yongshu | 6 | 11 | ||||||||||
2 | Eliza Nathanael Zelin Resiana | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Susi Susanti | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
Camilla Martin | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Susi Susanti | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
Ye Zhaoying | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
Gong Zhichao | 8 | 3 | |||||||||||
Ye Zhaoying | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
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