Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is managed by the Badminton Association of India. Indian shuttlers Prakash Padukone, Srikanth Kidambi, Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, H. S. Prannoy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have all been ranked in the top ten.
| Badminton in India | |
|---|---|
| Country |  India |
| Governing body | Badminton Association of India |
| National team(s) | India national badminton team |
National competitions | |
National Championships (1934–present) | |
Club competitions | |
Premier Badminton League (2016–present) | |
International competitions | |
Olympic Games  x1  x2Paralympic Games  x3  x3  x3World Championships  x1  x4  x9 Asian Games  x1  x2  x10Asian Para Games x8 x8 x21South Asian Games x34 x21 x3 | |
Prakash Padukone was the first player from India to achieve the world no. 1 spot in the game, after which Srikanth Kidambi became the second male player to make it to the top spot in April 2018.[1] Saina Nehwal is the first female player from India to achieve the world no. 1 spot, which she did in April 2015, and the first Indian badminton player to win a medal at the Olympic Games.[2][3]
P. V. Sindhu is the first Indian to become the badminton World Champion, which she achieved in 2019, and the only badminton player from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.[4][5] The most successful doubles player from India is Jwala Gutta, who is the only Indian to have been ranked in the Top-10 of two categories. She peaked at no. 6 with Valiyaveetil Diju in mixed doubles and at no. 10 with Ashwini Ponnappa in women's doubles.[6]
Other successful players include Pullela Gopichand, Aparna Popat, Syed Modi, Nandu Natekar, Chetan Anand, Parupalli Kashyap, B. Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma and N. Sikki Reddy.
History
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Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand both won the All England Open in 1980 and 2001 respectively, making them the only Indians to win the prestigious title.
Saina Nehwal won the bronze medal in the individual women's competition at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the first Olympic medal for the country in badminton. P. V. Sindhu won the second and the third Olympic medals in badminton for India, winning a silver and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics respectively.
India has won several medals at the BWF World Championships as well, with Prakash Padukone winning the first in 1982. The doubles pairing of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa became the first women to win a medal when they won the bronze in 2011.[7] P. V. Sindhu then won consecutive bronze medals at 2013 and 2014 editions, the first Indian player to do so. Saina Nehwal won a first-ever silver at the 2015 Championships, and then a bronze in 2017.[8] P. V. Sindhu won silver in consecutive editions in 2017 and 2018. Sindhu then went on to win the gold at the 2019 BWF World Championships and become the first Indian to ever finish on top of the podium. At the same edition, B. Sai Praneeth medalled in the men's singles after 36 years, clinching the bronze. As a result, for the first time, India won medals in two different disciplines in the same BWF World Championships edition. In 2021, Lakshya Sen won the bronze medal in men's singles while Srikanth Kidambi won the silver, the first time India had two medallists in the same edition in the men's singles discipline. In 2022, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won India's first World Championship medal in the men's doubles, a bronze. Till date, India has never returned empty handed from the World Championships since 2011.
At the BWF World Junior Championships, Saina Nehwal is the only gold medalist for India, which she achieved in 2008. At the Badminton Asia Junior Championships, P. V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen are the only gold medalists for India, winning in their respective categories in 2012 and 2018 respectively.
| Player Name | Discipline | Best ranking | Olympic medals | World Championship medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saina Nehwal | Women's Singles | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| P. V. Sindhu | Women's Singles | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Prakash Padukone | Men's Singles | 1 | - | 1 |
| Srikanth Kidambi | Men's Singles | 1 | - | 1 |
| Lakshya Sen | Men's Singles | 6 | - | 1 |
| H. S. Prannoy | Men's Singles | 6 | - | 1 |
| B. Sai Praneeth | Men's Singles | 10 | - | 1 |
| Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty | Men's Doubles | 1 | - | 1 |
| Jwala Gutta and V. Diju | Mixed Doubles | 6 | - | - |
| Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa | Women's Doubles | 10 | - | 1 |
| India | Team | 5 | N.A. | N.A. |
Current rankings
edit- As per November 2024
Men's singles
edit| World Rank | Player |
|---|---|
| 14 | Lakshya Sen |
| 26 | Prannoy H. S. |
| 34 | Priyanshu Rajawat |
| 36 | Kiran George |
| 41 | Srikanth Kidambi |
Women's singles
edit| World Rank | Player |
|---|---|
| 18 | PV Sindhu |
| 32 | Malvika Bansod |
| 44 | Anupama Upadhyaya |
| 46 | Aakarshi Kashyap |
| 53 | Ashmita Chaliha |
Men's doubles
edit| World Rank | Player |
|---|---|
| 4 | Chirag Shetty Satwiksairaj Rankireddy |
| 38 | K. Sai Pratheek Krishna Prasad Garaga |
| 53 | Dhruv Kapila Arjun M.R. |
Women's doubles
edit| World Rank | Player |
|---|---|
| 13 | Tanisha Crasto Ashwini Ponnappa |
| 16 | Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand |
| 40 | Rutaparna Panda Swetaparna Panda |
Mixed doubles
edit| World Rank | Player |
|---|---|
| 33 | Sumeeth Reddy N. Sikki Reddy |
| 34 | Aadya Variyath Sathish Kumar Karunakaran |
| 50 | Rohan Kapoor Gadde Ruthvika Shivani |
| 64 | Tanisha Crasto Dhruv Kapila |
Medal table
edit| Tournament | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Paralympic Games | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| World Championships | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 |
| Para World Championships | 21.5 | 15.5 | 51 | 88 |
| Thomas Cup | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Uber Cup | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Sudirman Cup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Asia Championships | 2 | 0 | 16 | 18 |
| Asia Team Championships | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Asia Mixed Team Championships | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Asian Games | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 |
| Asian Para Games | 8 | 8 | 21 | 37 |
| South Asian Games | 34 | 21 | 3 | 58 |
| Commonwealth Games | 10 | 8 | 13 | 31 |
| Total | 82.5 | 63.5 | 137 | 283 |
- Updated till 19 September, 2024
Olympic Games
editParalympic Games
edit| Year | Event | Player | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Men's singles SL3 | Manoj Sarkar | Group stage |
| Nitesh Kumar |
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| Men's singles SL4 | Suhas Yathiraj |
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| Sukant Kadam | 4th | ||
| Tarun Dhillon | Group stage | ||
| Men's singles SH6 | Krishna Nagar | Group stage | |
| Sivarajan Solaimalai | Group stage | ||
| Women's singles SL3 | Manasi Joshi | Group stage | |
| Mandeep Kaur | Quarter-finals | ||
| Women's singles SL4 | Palak Kohli | Quarter-finals | |
| Women's singles SU5 | Thulasimathi Murugesan |
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| Manisha Ramadass |
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| Women's singles SH6 | Nithya Sivan |
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| Mixed doubles SL3–SU5 | Nitesh Kumar Thulasimathi Murugesan |
Group stage | |
| Suhas Yathiraj Palak Kohli |
Group stage | ||
| Mixed doubles SH6 | Sivarajan Solaimalai Nithya Sivan |
4th | |
| 2020 | Men's singles SL3 | Pramod Bhagat |
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| Manoj Sarkar |
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| Men's singles SL1 | Tarun Dhillon | 4th | |
| Suhas Yathiraj |
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| Men's singles SH6 | Krishna Nagar |
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| Women's singles SL4 | Parul Parmar | Group stage | |
| Women's singles SU5 | Palak Kohli | Quarter-finals | |
| Women's doubles SL3–SU5 | Parul Parmar Palak Kohli |
Group stage | |
| Mixed doubles SL3–SU5 | Pramod Bhagat Palak Kohli |
4th |
National award recipients
edit| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000–2001 | Pullela Gopichand | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 2010 | Saina Nehwal | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Female |
| 2016 | P. V. Sindhu | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Female |
| 1961 | Nandu M. Natekar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1962 | Meena Shah | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1965 | Dinesh Khanna | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1967 | Suresh Goel | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1969 | Dipu Ghosh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1970 | Damayanti Tambay | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1971 | Sobha Morthy | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1972 | Prakash Padukone | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1974 | Raman Ghosh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1975 | Devinder Ahuja | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1976 | Ami Ghia | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1977–1978 | Kanwal Thakar Singh | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1980–1981 | Syed Modi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1982 | Madhumita Bisht | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1982 | Partho Ganguli | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1999 | Pullela Gopichand | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2000 | George Thomas | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2004 | Abhinn Shyam Gupta | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2005 | Aparna Popat | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2006 | Chetan Anand | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2007 | Anup Sridhar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2009 | Saina Nehwal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2011 | Jwala Gutta | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2012 | Parupalli Kashyap | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2012 | Ashwini Ponnappa | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2013 | P. V. Sindhu | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2014 | Valiyaveetil Diju | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2015 | Srikanth Kidambi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2018 | N. Sikki Reddy | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2019 | B. Sai Praneeth | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2020 | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2020 | Chirag Shetty | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2022 | Lakshya Sen | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2022 | Prannoy H. S. | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2020 | Pradeep Shrikrishna Gandhe | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2020 | Trupti Murgunde | Dhyan Chand Award | Female |
| 2017 | G. S. S. V. Prasad + | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2000 | S. M. Arif | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2009 | Pullela Gopichand | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2019 | U. Vimal Kumar | Dronacharya Award | Male |
+ Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
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Former notable players
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Kidambi Srikanth becomes first Indian male shuttler to claim World No 1 spot after Prakash Padukone". Firstpost. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ Rao, Rakesh (28 March 2015). "Saina becomes World No. 1". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ "London Olympics: Super Saina wins India's maiden Olympic medal in badminton, claims bronze in playoff". www.indiatoday.in. 4 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "When PV Sindhu became Indian badminton's golden girl". Olympic Games. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "PV Sindhu joins select group of repeat medalists with Tokyo 2020 bronze". Olympic Games. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "Jwala Gutta". Tournament Software. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
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