Li Xuerui

Li Xuerui
Li xuerui 2012 at the Olympic Games in London
Country:	People's Republic of China
Date of birth:	January 24, 1991
Place of birth:	Chongqing
Size:	174 cm
1st professional season:	2008
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Chen Jin
BWF ID:	64643
Ladies singles
Career record:	253: 53
Highest ranking:	1 (December 20, 2012)
Current placement:	4th
Ladies doubles
Career record:	1: 1
Medals
Country: People's Republic of China  badminton  Olympic games gold London 2012 singles
BWF profile
As of November 22, 2015

Li Xuerui ( Chinese  李雪 芮 , Pinyin Lĭ Xuĕruì , born January 24, 1991 in Chongqing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese badminton player .

Career

Li Xuerui recorded as her greatest success winning the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in women's singles. She had previously won gold at the 2008 Asian Junior Championships . In the same year she also secured the team title at the Junior World Championship . By winning the All England Open 2012 , she achieved her first victory in a tournament in the BWF Super Series , seven weeks later she achieved this again by defeating the German Juliane Schenk in the final of the India Open 2012 . At the Asian Championships in 2010 and 2012 , she won gold. In 2012 she also won the German Open (Badminton) , the China Open Super Series and the Hong Kong Super Series as well as the final of the BWF Super Series final against Wang Shixian . In 2013 she reached the final of the Asian Championships , which was won by Wang Yihan . She was also a member of the Chinese team that successfully defended the Sudirman Cup . On June 16, she won the Indonesia Super Series against Juliane Schenk.

Sporting successes

Women's singles title

Li Xuerui at the 2011 US Open in Orange , California

result	year	Place / tournament	opponent	Result
Olympic games
gold	2012	London	Wang Yihan	21:15, 21:23, 21:17

year	competition	Final opponent	result
2010	Asian Championship	Liu Xin	21:13, 18:21, 21:19
2010	Macau Open	Adriyanti Firdasari	21:18, 21:15
2011	Thailand Open	Jiang Yanjiao	14:21, 21:14, 21:14
2011	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Yao Jie	21: 8, 21: 9
2012	German Open	Juliane Schenk	21:19, 21:16
2012	All England Open	Wang Yihan	21:13, 21:19
2012	Asian Championship	Wang Yihan	21:16, 16:21, 21: 9
2012	India Open	Juliane Schenk	14:21, 21:17, 21: 8
2013	Indonesia Open	Juliane Schenk	21:16, 18:21, 21:17
Junior Championships
2008	Junior Asian Championship	Wang Shixian	22:20, 21:13

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Xuerui is the first name.