Badminton Champs

Sunday 5 August 2012

Lee Chong Wei

Badminton Champs | Lee Chong Wei | Date of Birth born October 21, 1982 in Bagan Serai, Perak | Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam.[3] As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from August 21, 2008 to June 14, 2012. He is the third Malaysian men's singles shuttler after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking.

Lee Chong Wei

Peter Gade

Badminton Champs | Peter Gade | Date of Birth born December 14, 1976, in Aalborg, Denmark | Peter Gade is a Danish professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen. He has two children with the former handball player Camilla Høeg. He is nicknamed Flyer, Street. Gade made his mark in badminton history through his All England Open Badminton Championships singles title in 1999 and his five European Championships crowns in the men's single event.

Peter Gade

Saturday 4 August 2012

Li Xuerui

Badminton Champs | Li Xuerui | Date of Birth January 24, 1991 in Chongqing | Li Xuerui is a female badminton player from China.She has been chosen over Wang Shixian in the Olympics badminton team. She won the Olympic gold medal for women's singles in London 2012. Earlier, India's Saina Nehwal prevented China from taking all three badminton women's singles medals after world number two Xin Wang retired because of a knee injury.

Li Xuerui

Wang Yihan

Badminton Champs | Wang Yihan | Date of Birth January 18, 1988 in Shanghai | Wang Yihan is a professional female badminton player from China and the reigning women's singles world champion. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006 she began to shine in major tournaments

Wang Yihan

Sania Nahwal

Badminton Champs | Sania Nahwal | Date of Bitrh March 17, 1990 | Saina Nehwal is an Indian Khel Ratna badminton player currently ranked 5 in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012.

Sania Nahwal