Badminton Asia Championships


The Badminton Asia Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.
The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had been played rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event nulled since 1994.
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 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give the players more time to rest. Some of the top players also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low.

Championships

Individual championships

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the Asia Championships.

Team championships

Men's team competition started in 1962 and last played in 1993. In 2016, Badminton Asia decided to create a new men's and women's team championships which also serves as qualification tournament for the Thomas and Uber Cups Finals. Another new team tournament using mixed team format, named as Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship, was initiated in 2017. Both championships are biennial, thus following the same pattern as Thomas & Uber Cups finals and the Sudirman Cup.

Badminton Asia Team Championships

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship

All time medal table

Individual Championships

from 1988 to present.

Team Championships

from 2016 to present.

Men's Team

Women's Team

Overall (men's and women's team)

Mixed Team

from 2017 to present.

Past winners

Individual competition

Team competition

YearWinner
1993
1989
1987
1985
1983
1976
1971
1969
1965
1962 Malaya

Badminton Asia Team Championships

;Men's Team
;Women's Team

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships

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.
TypePlayerAsian Champion World Champion
Mixed Doubles Christian Hadinata19711980
Men's Doubles Tjun Tjun19761977
Men's Doubles Ade Chandra19761980
Women's Doubles Guan Weizhen19831987, 1989, 1991
Mixed Doubles Park Joo-bong1983, 19911985, 1989, 1991
Men's Singles Zhao Jianhua19851991
Men's Doubles Park Joo-bong1985, 19911985, 1991
Men's Doubles Kim Moon-soo1985, 19911985, 1991
Women's Singles Tang Jiuhong19881991
Mixed Doubles Chung Myung-hee19911989, 1991
Women's Singles Ye Zhaoying1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 19991995, 1997
Women's Doubles Ge Fei1994, 1995, 1998, 19991997, 1999
Women's Doubles Gu Jun1994, 1995, 1998, 19991997, 1999
Mixed Doubles Ge Fei19951997
Men's Doubles Candra Wijaya19961997
Men's Singles Sun Jun19971999
Mixed Doubles Zhang Jun1997, 20022001
Men's Doubles Ha Tae-kwon1998, 1999, 20021999
Mixed Doubles Kim Dong-moon1998, 1999, 2001, 20041999, 2003
Mixed Doubles Ra Kyung-min1998, 1999, 2001, 20041999, 2003
Men's Singles Taufik Hidayat2000, 2004, 20072005
Women's Singles Xie Xingfang20002005, 2006
Men's Doubles Rexy Mainaky20001995
Men's Doubles/ Tony Gunawan20002001, 2005
Men's Singles Xia Xuanze20012003
Women's Singles Zhang Ning20012003
Women's Doubles Gao Ling20012001, 2003, 2006
Mixed Doubles Gao Ling20022001
Mixed Doubles Nova Widianto2003, 20062005, 2007
Men's Doubles Sigit Budiarto20041997
Men's Doubles Markis Kido2005, 20092007
Men's Doubles Hendra Setiawan2005, 20092007, 2013, 2015, 2019
Women's Doubles Du Jing20062010
Women's Doubles Yu Yang2006, 2011, 20132010, 2011, 2013
Mixed Doubles Liliyana Natsir2006, 20152005, 2007, 2013, 2017
Women's Doubles Yang Wei2007, 20082005, 2007
Women's Doubles Zhao Tingting20072009
Women's Doubles Zhang Jiewen20082005, 2007
Women's Singles Zhu Lin20092007
Women's Doubles Wang Xiaoli2009, 2011, 20132011, 2013
Men's singles Lin Dan2010, 2011, 2014, 20152006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
Women's Doubles Tian Qing2010, 20122014, 2015
Women's Singles Wang Yihan2011, 2013, 20162011
Men's Doubles Fu Haifeng20112006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Men's Doubles Cai Yun20112006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Mixed Doubles Zhang Nan2011, 2012, 20162011, 2014, 2015
Mixed Doubles Zhao Yunlei2011, 2012, 20162011, 2014, 2015
Men's Singles Chen Jin20122010
Women's Doubles Zhao Yunlei20122014, 2015
Men's Doubles Ko Sung-hyun20132014
Men's Doubles Shin Baek-cheol20142014
Women's Singles Ratchanok Intanon20152013
Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmad20152013, 2017
Men's Singles Chen Long20172014, 2015
Men's Doubles Li Junhui2017, 20182018
Men's Doubles Liu Yuchen2017, 20182018
Mixed Doubles Huang Yaqiong20172018, 2019
Men's Singles Kento Momota2018, 20192018, 2019

Successful players

Below is the list of the most ever successful players in the Badminton Asia Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.
RankPlayersMSWSMDWDXDTotal
1 Ge Fei415
1 Ye Zhaoying55
1 Kim Dong-moon145
1 Lee Yong-dae415
1 Ra Kyung-min145
6 Gu Jun44
6 Lin Dan44
6 Yu Yang314
6 Zhao Yunlei134
6 Kim Dong-moon44
6 Park Joo-bong224
6 Ra Kyung-min44
13 Huang Yaqiong33
13 Wang Xiaoli33
13 Wang Yihan33
13 Yang Wei33
13 Zhang Nan33
13 Angela Bairstow1113
13 Wang Chen33
13 Taufik Hidayat33
13 Tri Kusharjanto213
13 Ha Tae-kwon33
13 Lee Kyung-won33

MS: Men's singles; WS: Women's singles; MD: Men's doubles; WD: Women's doubles; XD: Mixed doubles

Successful national teams

Below is the gold medalists shown based by category and countries. China has been the most successful in the Asia Championships. They were the only country ever to achieve a shutout of the medals which they did in 2011.
RankCountry62656971768385878891929495969798990001020304050607080910111213141516171819Total
1332324314331331323354322232275
221422111413112221111135
3122131221112312111221134
430.51111211211116.5
511237
6111115
71113
82.52.5
9112
1011

BOLD means overall winner of that Asia Championships

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

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