2005 IBF World Championships

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2005 IBF World Championships
Tournament details
Dates15–21 August
Edition14th
LevelInternational
Venue Arrowhead Pond
Location Anaheim, United States
← 2003 Birmingham 2006 Madrid →

The 2005 IBF World Championships (14th World Badminton Championships) was held in Anaheim, southern California, United States, from August 15 to August 21, 2005.

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2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's singles over China's Lin Dan, while Peter Gade of Denmark and Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia received bronze medals.

In the women's singles category, Xie Xingfang won the gold medal beating compatriot 2004 Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ning. Germany's Xu Huaiwen and Chinese Taipei's Cheng Shao-chieh won bronze medals. Cheng Shao-chieh also created some surprise results in the tournament.

Women's doubles was almost an all-China show. 2004 Olympic gold medalists Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen repeated their 2004 Olympic performance with victory over silver medalists Gao Ling/Huang Sui.

In the mixed doubles, number 1 seeds Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms of England backed out before commencement of the tournament due to an injury to Robertson. This paved the way for several pairs to contest the medals. Indonesia's Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir secured the gold over China's up and coming Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen. Zhang Yawen also become the only double medalist in this games winning the silver in mixed doubles and bronze in the women's doubles.

The biggest surprise in the tournament came in men's doubles. Though former Indonesian star Tony Gunawan had long been recognized as one of the premier men's doubles players in the game, he and his American partner Howard Bach were only the 13th seeded team in the competition. However, from the round of 16 through the semifinal they routinely defeated higher seeded pairs to reach the final. There, before a surprisingly large "hometown crowd", they overcame the second seeded Indonesian team of Sigit Budiarto and Candra Wijaya in three close games to become the first American winners of any event since the IBF first held an official World Championships in 1977.

Host city selection

Anaheim (United States) and Aarhus [1] (Denmark) were the candidates for the host of the championships. Singapore withdrew its bid before the council meeting which later awarded the event to Anaheim. [2]

Venue

The championships were held at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, now known as Honda Center.

Medalists

China had an excellent tournament, winning seven medals in total, including the gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles, as well as four of the five silvers. Indonesia won both the men's singles and mixed doubles. The men's doubles tournament was won by the 13th seeds, Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach, winning the United States's first ever gold at the World Championships.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2417
2Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 2114
3Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States*1001
4Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia 0022
5Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 0011
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 0011
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0011
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 0011
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 0011
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 0011
Totals (10 entries)551020

Events

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's singles Flag of Indonesia.svg Taufik Hidayat Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lin Dan Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Gade
Flag of Malaysia.svg Lee Chong Wei
Women's Singles Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xie Xingfang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Ning Flag of Germany.svg Xu Huaiwen
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Cheng Shao-chieh
Men's Doubles Flag of the United States.svg Howard Bach
Flag of the United States.svg Tony Gunawan 		Flag of Indonesia.svg Sigit Budiarto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Candra Wijaya 		Flag of Indonesia.svg Luluk Hadiyanto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Alvent Yulianto
Flag of Malaysia.svg Chan Chong Ming
Flag of Malaysia.svg Koo Kien Keat
Women's Doubles Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yang Wei
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Jiewen 		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gao Ling
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Huang Sui 		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Dan
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Yawen
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Hyo-jung
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Kyung-won
Mixed Doubles Flag of Indonesia.svg Nova Widianto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Liliyana Natsir 		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xie Zhongbo
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Yawen 		Flag of New Zealand.svg Daniel Shirley
Flag of New Zealand.svg Sara Runesten-Petersen
Flag of Thailand.svg Sudket Prapakamol
Flag of Thailand.svg Saralee Thungthongkam

Participating nations

A total of 50 nations entered players at the 2005 IBF World Championships. The number of competitors is indicated in parentheses.

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  2. ↑ "Arrowhead Pond Awarded 2005 Badminton World Championships" (PDF). lasports.org. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
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