The Badminton Asia Championships (formerly Asian Badminton Championships until 2006) is a tournament organized by governing body Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.
The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event became null since 1994.[1]
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 the 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give his players more time to rest.[2] Some of the top players were also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low.
Editions
The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the Asia Championships. The most recent games were held in Ningbo in 2025. The number in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country has hosted the championships. The number of events at each has ranged from one to six, and is given in the right-most column.
Host cities of the Asia Championships (Asia)
| Year
|
Edition
|
Host City
|
Events
|
| 1962 |
1 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (1) |
6
|
| 1965 |
2 |
Lucknow, India (1)
|
| 1969 |
3 |
Manila, Philippines (1) |
5
|
| 1971 |
4 |
Jakarta, Indonesia (1) |
6
|
| 1976 |
5 |
Hyderabad, India (1)
|
| 1983 |
6 |
Calcutta, India (1) |
6
|
| 1985 |
7 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2) |
5
|
| 1987 |
8 |
Semarang, Indonesia (1) |
1
|
| 1989 |
9 |
Shanghai, China (1) |
1
|
| 1991 |
10 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (3) |
5
|
| 1992 |
11 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (4)
|
| 1993 |
12 |
Hong Kong (1) |
1
|
| 1994 |
13 |
Shanghai, China (2) |
5
|
| 1995 |
14 |
Beijing, China (1)
|
| 1996 |
15 |
Surabaya, Indonesia (1)
|
| 1997 |
16 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (5)
|
| 1998 |
17 |
Bangkok, Thailand (1)
|
| 1999 |
18 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (6)
|
| 2000 |
19 |
Jakarta, Indonesia (2)
|
| 2001 |
20 |
Manila, Philippines (2)
|
| 2002 |
21 |
Bangkok, Thailand (2)
|
|
| Year
|
Edition
|
Host City
|
Events
|
| 2003 |
22 |
Jakarta, Indonesia (3) |
5
|
| 2004 |
23 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (7)
|
| 2005 |
24 |
Hyderabad, India (2)
|
| 2006 |
25 |
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (1)
|
| 2007 |
26 |
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (2)
|
| 2008 |
27 |
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (3)
|
| 2009 |
28 |
Suwon, South Korea (1)
|
| 2010 |
29 |
New Delhi, India (1)
|
| 2011 |
30 |
Chengdu, China (1)
|
| 2012 |
31 |
Qingdao, China (1)
|
| 2013 |
32 |
Taipei, Taiwan (1)
|
| 2014 |
33 |
Gimcheon, South Korea (1)
|
| 2015 |
34 |
Wuhan, China (1)
|
| 2016 |
35 |
Wuhan, China (2)
|
| 2017 |
36 |
Wuhan, China (3)
|
| 2018 |
37 |
Wuhan, China (4)
|
| 2019 |
38 |
Wuhan, China (5)
|
| 2022 |
39 |
Manila, Philippines (3)
|
| 2023 |
40 |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (1)
|
| 2024 |
41 |
Ningbo, China (1)
|
| 2025 |
42 |
Ningbo, China (2)
|
|
All-time medal table
Individual medalists
- Accurate as of 2025 Badminton Asia Championships.
Men's team medalists (1962 – 1993)
Past winners
Men's team (1962–1993)
- Accurate as of 2025 edition.
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.
| Type |
Player |
Asian Champion (Year) |
World Champion (Year)
|
| Mixed Doubles |
 Christian Hadinata |
1971 |
1980
|
| Men's Doubles |
Tjun Tjun |
1976 |
1977
|
| Men's Doubles |
Ade Chandra |
1976 |
1980
|
| Women's Doubles |
 Guan Weizhen |
1983 |
1987, 1989, 1991
|
| Mixed Doubles |
 Park Joo-bong |
1983, 1991 |
1985, 1989, 1991
|
| Men's Singles |
Zhao Jianhua |
1985 |
1991
|
| Men's Doubles |
Park Joo-bong |
1985, 1991 |
1985, 1991
|
| Men's Doubles |
Kim Moon-soo |
1985, 1991 |
1985, 1991
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Chung Myung-hee |
1991 |
1989, 1991
|
| Women's Singles |
Ye Zhaoying |
1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 |
1995, 1997
|
| Women's Doubles |
Ge Fei |
1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 |
1997, 1999
|
| Women's Doubles |
Gu Jun |
1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 |
1997, 1999
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Ge Fei |
1995 |
1997
|
| Men's Doubles |
Candra Wijaya |
1996 |
1997
|
| Men's Singles |
Sun Jun |
1997 |
1999
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Zhang Jun |
1997, 2002 |
2001
|
| Men's Doubles |
Ha Tae-kwon |
1998, 1999, 2002 |
1999
|
| Men's Doubles |
Kim Dong-moon |
1999, 2002 |
1999
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Kim Dong-moon |
1998, 1999, 2001, 2004 |
1999, 2003
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Ra Kyung-min |
1998, 1999, 2001, 2004 |
1999, 2003
|
| Men's Singles |
Taufik Hidayat |
2000, 2004, 2007 |
2005
|
| Women's Singles |
Xie Xingfang |
2000 |
2005, 2006
|
| Men's Doubles |
Rexy Mainaky |
2000 |
1995
|
| Men's Doubles |
/ Tony Gunawan |
2000 |
2001, 2005
|
| Men's Singles |
Xia Xuanze |
2001 |
2003
|
| Women's Singles |
Zhang Ning |
2001 |
2003
|
| Women's Doubles |
Gao Ling |
2001 |
2001, 2003, 2006
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Gao Ling |
2002 |
2001
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Nova Widianto |
2003, 2006 |
2005, 2007
|
| Men's Doubles |
Sigit Budiarto |
2004 |
1997
|
| Men's Doubles |
Markis Kido |
2005, 2009 |
2007
|
| Men's Doubles |
Hendra Setiawan |
2005, 2009 |
2007, 2013, 2015, 2019
|
| Women's Doubles |
Du Jing |
2006 |
2010
|
| Women's Doubles |
Yu Yang |
2006, 2011, 2013 |
2010, 2011, 2013
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Liliyana Natsir |
2006, 2015 |
2005, 2007, 2013, 2017
|
| Women's Doubles |
Yang Wei |
2007, 2008 |
2005, 2007
|
| Women's Doubles |
Zhao Tingting |
2007 |
2009
|
| Women's Doubles |
Zhang Jiewen |
2008 |
2005, 2007
|
| Women's Singles |
Zhu Lin |
2009 |
2007
|
| Women's Doubles |
Wang Xiaoli |
2009, 2011, 2013 |
2011, 2013
|
| Men's singles |
Lin Dan |
2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 |
2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
|
| Women's Doubles |
Tian Qing |
2010, 2012 |
2014, 2015
|
| Women's Singles |
Wang Yihan |
2011, 2013, 2016 |
2011
|
| Men's Doubles |
Fu Haifeng |
2011 |
2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
|
| Men's Doubles |
Cai Yun |
2011 |
2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Zhang Nan |
2011, 2012, 2016 |
2011, 2014, 2015
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Zhao Yunlei |
2011, 2012, 2016 |
2011, 2014, 2015
|
| Men's Singles |
Chen Jin |
2012 |
2010
|
| Women's Doubles |
Zhao Yunlei |
2012 |
2014, 2015
|
| Men's Doubles |
Ko Sung-hyun |
2013 |
2014
|
| Men's Doubles |
Shin Baek-cheol |
2014 |
2014
|
| Women's Singles |
 Ratchanok Intanon |
2015 |
2013
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Tontowi Ahmad |
2015 |
2013, 2017
|
| Men's Singles |
Chen Long |
2017 |
2014, 2015
|
| Men's Doubles |
Li Junhui |
2017, 2018 |
2018
|
| Men's Doubles |
Liu Yuchen |
2017, 2018 |
2018
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Huang Yaqiong |
2017, 2022 |
2018, 2019, 2022
|
| Men's Singles |
 Kento Momota |
2018, 2019 |
2018, 2019
|
| Women's Singles |
Akane Yamaguchi |
2019 |
2021, 2022
|
| Women's Doubles |
Chen Qingchen |
2019, 2022 |
2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
|
| Women's Doubles |
Jia Yifan |
2019, 2022 |
2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
|
| Mixed Doubles |
Zheng Siwei |
2022 |
2018, 2019, 2022
|
| Men's Singles |
Kunlavut Vitidsarn |
2025 |
2023
|
| Men's Doubles |
 Aaron Chia |
2025 |
2022
|
| Men's Doubles |
Soh Wooi Yik |
2025 |
2022
|
Successful players
Below is the list of the most ever successful players in the Badminton Asia Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.
MS: Men's singles; WS: Women's singles; MD: Men's doubles; WD: Women's doubles; XD: Mixed doubles
Successful national teams
Below are the gold medal teams, shown by year as against by country. China has been the most successful and the only country to achieve a full slate of golds which they did in 2011.
BOLD highlights the overall winner therefore at that Asia Team Championships
- ^1 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.
- ^2 China won on superior of silver medal to Korea, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^3 China won on superior of silver medal of three silver medals to Malaysia none, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^4 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal of four silver medals to South Korea one, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.
- ^5 China won on superior of silver medal of two silver medals to South Korea none, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^6 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to South Korea one, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^7 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to Japan none, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^8 China won on superior of silver medal of one silver medal to Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, and Japan none, thus, China became overall winner.
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Unofficial championships
- In addition to official championships, a few invitational Asian championships were also conducted.
| Year
|
Men's singles
|
Women's singles
|
Men's doubles
|
Women's doubles
|
Mixed doubles
|
| 1976 (I)
|
Iie Sumirat
|
Liang Qiuxia
|
Ade Chandra
Christian Hadinata
|
Sylvia Ng
Rosalind Singha Ang
|
Not held
|
| 1977
|
Yu Yaodong
|
Tjun Tjun
Johan Wahjudi
|
Liang Qiuxia
Liu Xia
|
| 1978
|
Liu Xia
|
Lin Shiquan
Tang Xianhu
|
Sirisriro Patama
Kingmanee Thongkam
|
| 1980
|
Han Jian
|
Song Youping
|
Li Zhifeng
Yang Kesen
|
Li Lingwei
San Yanqin
|
| 1988
|
Xiong Guobao
|
Tang Jiuhong
|
Zhang Qiang
Zhou Jincan
|
Verawaty Fajrin
Yanti Kusmiati
|
See also
Note
References
External links
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| Africa |
- BCA – African Championships
- Team Championships
- Junior Championships
- African Para Championships
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| Oceania |
- BO – Oceania Championships
- Junior Championships
- Oceania Para Championships
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| Games |
- African Games
- Arab Games
- Asian Games
- Commonwealth Games
- Deaflympics
- East Asian Games
- European Games
- Island Games
- Pan American Games
- SEA Games
- South Asian Games
- World University Games
- World Games (defunct)
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- Badminton Asia Team Championships
- Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships
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