Lin Dan is a Chinese badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist,five-time World champion,two-time World Cup champion,two-time Asian games gold medalist,four-time Asian Champion,as well as a six-time All England champion. Widely regarded as the greatest badminton player of all time,by the age of 28 Lin had completed the "Super Grand Slam",having won the full set of all nine major titles in the badminton world of his time:Olympic Games,World Championships,World Cup,Thomas Cup,Sudirman Cup,Year-end Finals,Asian Games,and Asian Championships,becoming the third player to achieve this feat after Ge Fei and Gu Jun.
Wong Choong Hann is a Malaysian former badminton player. He was the first Malaysian to win a medal in the men's singles event at the BWF World Championships. He resigned as the coaching director for the Malaysia national badminton team in June 2023.
Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian retired badminton player who is the current Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport of Indonesia. He is a former World,Olympic,two time Asian Games,and three time Asian champion,and the youngest world number one in the men's singles. Hidayat has won the Indonesia Open six times. He is considered one of the great men's single players in badminton history and has earned the nickname "Mr. Backhand".
Zhang Ning is a former Chinese badminton player. She won the Olympic gold medal twice for women's singles in both 2004 and 2008. She has played badminton on the world scene since the mid-1990s and has been particularly successful since 2002 while in her late twenties and early thirties,relatively late for singles at the highest level,and especially for top players in the Chinese system who are developed very early. She is known for her consistency of shot,deception and constant pressure,dictating the pace of rallies and working her opponents in all four corners of the court. She is the only female player to win consecutive Olympic singles gold medals. She also became World champion in 2003 and has a total of five medals of all colours in the competition.
Zhou Mi is a Chinese badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China,but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010,she received a 2-year ban,for failing a drugs test.
Tri Kusharjanto is a badminton player from Indonesia. His name also appears variously as Tri Kusharyanto,Trikus Harjanto,Trikus Heryanto,and Trikus Haryanto.
Zhang Jun is a former male badminton player from the People's Republic of China. He is now a coach with the Chinese national team following his retirement as an international player.
Gong Zhichao is a former badminton player from the People's Republic of China.
Peter Rasmussen is a Danish badminton player. He is a former World Champion and European Champion.
Yang Yang is a former Chinese badminton player.
Hendrawan is an Indonesian badminton coach and former player.
Joko Suprianto is an Indonesian former badminton player who was one of the world's leading men's singles players in the early and mid-1990s,a period during which Indonesia was especially deep in top tier singles players,winning many of the world's major events.
Zhao Jianhua is a Chinese former badminton player who competed internationally from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He was admired for his speed and power as well as for his deception and technique.
Han Aiping was a Chinese badminton player in the 1980s who ranks among the greats of the woman's game. Noted for her superb overhead strokes,she and her teammate,rival,and sometimes doubles partner Li Lingwei dominated international singles play for most of the decade,each winning the IBF World Championships twice,and led Chinese teams to victory in Uber Cup competitions.
Li Yongbo is a retired Chinese male badminton player and the former head coach of Chinese National Badminton Team.
Tian Bingyi is a former badminton star from China. Though he played some singles internationally early in his career,he soon specialised in men's doubles.
Minarti Timur is a former Indonesian badminton player who is affiliated with PB Djarum since 1987.
Iie Sumirat is a former badminton player from Indonesia.
Liang Chun-sheng,known in Indonesia as Tjun Tjun,is a retired Chinese-Indonesian badminton player.
Tang Xianhu is a Indonesia-born Chinese former badminton player and coach. In the early days of his career,Tang was unable to participate in international competitions due to political factors,but he defeated the world's top players many times during overseas visits and exchanges,and was known as the "Uncrowned King" in badminton. He won the Asian Games men's team gold in 1974 and mixed doubles gold in 1978. After retiring,he started coaching in China and Indonesia. Many of the players he coached had won the World Championships and/or Olympic gold medals such as Lin Ying,Wu Dixi,Li Lingwei,Han Aiping,Ji Xinpeng,Xia Xuanze,Sun Jun,Lin Dan,Cai Yun,Fu Haifeng,Alan Budikusuma and Hendrawan. In 2002,he was inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame.
