Taufik Hidayat

Taufik Hidayat
Hidayat 2009 at the Swiss Open in Basel
Country:	Indonesia
Date of birth:	August 10, 1981
Place of birth:	Bandung , East Java
Size:	175 cm
Weight:	65 kg
1st professional season:	1997
Resignation:	June 12th, 2013
Playing hand:	Right
BWF ID:	10337
Men's singles
Career record:	414: 136
Career title:	27
Highest ranking:	1 (2000)
Medals
Country: Indonesia  badminton  Olympic games gold Athens 2004 singles IBF / BWF - world championships gold Anaheim 2005 singles silver Paris 2010 singles bronze Seville 2001 singles bronze Hyderabad 2009 singles Thomas Cup gold Kuala Lumpur 2000 Men's gold Guangzhou 2002 Men's silver Kuala Lumpur 2010 Men's bronze Jakarta 2004 Men's bronze Sendai & Tokyo 2006 Men's bronze Jakarta 2008 Men's Sudirman Cup silver Seville 2001 Mixed silver Beijing 2005 Mixed silver Glasgow 2007 Mixed bronze Copenhagen 1999 Mixed bronze Eindhoven 2003 Mixed  Asian Games gold Bangkok 1998 Men's gold Busan 2002 singles gold Doha 2006 singles silver Busan 2002 Men's bronze Doha 2006 Men's bronze Guangzhou 2010 Men's ABC / BAC - Asian Championships gold Jakarta 2000 singles gold Kuala Lumpur 2004 singles gold Johor Bahru 2007 singles silver Bangkok 2002 singles silver Jakarta 2003 singles bronze Bangkok 1998 singles  Southeast Asian Games gold BSB 1999 singles gold Khorat 2007 singles bronze Jakarta 2011 singles
BWF profile

Taufik Hidayat (born August 10, 1981 in Bandung , Jawa Barat , Indonesia ) is a former Indonesian badminton player , Olympic champion and world champion . He is considered one of the most successful and best badminton players and is one of the most popular athletes in Indonesia. Above all, his skills on the backhand side and his backhand smash are legendary.

Career

Hidayat started badminton at the age of seven. Between 1999 and 2006 he won his biggest title in men's singles. During this time he won the Indonesia Open six times . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he reached the quarter-finals, at the 2001 World Championships in Seville, the semi-finals. His greatest success, however, was winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , for which he received the record premium of 1 million dollars. In 2005 he was the first player to win the title at the World Championships in Anaheim at the same time as world champion and Olympic champion . In 2002 and 2006 he won the Asian Games , in 2000 , 2004 and 2007 he was Asian Champion . He won bronze at the 2009 World Championships in Hyderabad and was runner-up in Paris in 2010 . In 1999 and 2000 he reached the final of the All England at the age of 17 and 18, but was the only one of the big tournaments to never win. At the Indonesia Open 2013 he played his last official game, which he announced during the Japan Open 2012 .

Achievements in tables

Men's singles

Hidayat 2012 at the Axiata Cup in Jakarta

result	year	Place / tournament	opponent	Result
Olympic games
gold	2004	Athens	Shon Seung-mo	15: 8, 15: 7
5th / 8th	2000	Sydney	Ji Xinpeng	12:15, 5:15
9./16.	2012	London	Lin Dan	9:21, 12:21
17./32.	2008	Beijing	Choong Hann Wong	19:21, 16:21
IBF / BWF - world championships
gold	2005	Anaheim	Lin Dan	15: 3, 15: 7
silver	2010	Paris	Chen Jin	13:21, 15:21
bronze	2001	Seville	Hendrawan	15:11, 5:15, 7: 1 task
bronze	2009	Hyderabad	Chen Jin	16:21, 6:21
9./16.	1999	Copenhagen	Sun Jun	15: 7, 6:15, 6:15
9./16.	2003	Birmingham	Bao Chunlai	9:15, 4:15
9./16.	2006	Madrid	Chen Hong	21:14, 18:21, 19:21
17./32.	2007	Kuala Lumpur	Anup Sridhar	14:21, 26:24, 20:22
17./32.	2011	London	Zi Liang Derek Wong	17:21, 14:21
Asian Games
gold	2002	Busan	Lee Hyun-il	15: 7, 15: 9
gold	2006	Doha	Lin Dan	21:15, 22:20
5th / 8th	1998	Bangkok	Dong Jiong	5:15, 13:15
5th / 8th	2010	Guangzhou	Sung-hwan Park	15:21, 16:21
ABC / BAC - Asian Championships
gold	2000	Jakarta	Rony Agustinus	14:17, 15: 2, 15: 3
gold	2004	Kuala Lumpur	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	15:12, 7:15, 15: 6
gold	2007	Johor Bahru	Chen Hong	21:18, 21:19
silver	2002	Bangkok	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	12:15, 5:15
silver	2003	Jakarta	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	5:15, 15: 7, 8:15
bronze	1998	Bangkok	Marleve Mainaky	15:17, 5:15
5th / 8th	1997	Kuala Lumpur	Hermawan Susanto	9:15, 7:15
9./16.	2001	Manila	Lin Dan	2:15, 3:15
9./16.	2010	Doha	Hsueh Hsuan-Yi	20:22, 16:21
Southeast Asian Games
gold	1999	Bandar Seri Begawan	Choong Hann Wong	15:10, 11:15, 15:11
gold	2007	Nakhon Ratchasima	Yen Hui Kendrick Lee	21:15, 21: 9
bronze	2011	Jakarta & Palembang	Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk	14:21, 19:21
BWF World Superseries Finals
3rd / 4th	2008	Kota Kinabalu	Lee Chong Wei	5:21, 10:21
7th / 8th	2009	Johor Bahru	Hsieh Yu-Hsing	17:21, 15:21
7th / 8th	2010	Taipei	Chen Long	15:21, 11:14 task
7th / 8th	2011	Liuzhou	Chen Long	13:21, 7:21
BWF World Superseries
2.	2007	Japan Open	Lee Chong Wei	20:22, 21:19, 19:21
2.	2008	French Open	Peter Høeg Gade	21:16, 17:21, 7:21
2.	2009	Indonesia Open	Lee Chong Wei	9:21, 14:21
2.	2009	Japan Open	Bao Chunlai	15:21, 12:21
2.	2009	French Open	Lin Dan	6:21, 15:21
2.	2010	Indonesia Open	Lee Chong Wei	19:21, 8:21
2.	2010	Denmark Open	Jan Ø. Jørgensen	19:21, 19:21
1.	2010	French Open	Joachim Persson	21:16, 21:11
2.	2010	Hong Kong Open	Lee Chong Wei	19:21, 9:21
2.	2011	Malaysia Open	Lee Chong Wei	8:21, 17:21
IBF World Grand Prix
1.	1998	Brunei Open	Dong Jiong	12:15, 15: 3, 15: 9
2.	1999	All of England	Peter Gade	11:15, 15: 7, 10:15
2.	1999	Singapore Open	Heryanto Arbi	15:13, 10:15, 11:15
1.	1999	Indonesia Open	Budi Santoso	17:14, 15:12
2.	2000	All of England	Xia Xuanze	6:15, 13:15
1.	2000	Indonesia Open	Ewe Hock Ong	15: 5, 15:13
1.	2000	Malaysia Open	Xia Xuanze	15:10, 17:14
1.	2001	Singapore Open	Choong Hann Wong	7: 5, 0: 7, 7: 1, 1: 7, 7: 4
1.	2002	Chinese Taipei Open	Agus Hariyanto	15:10, 15: 8
1.	2002	Indonesia Open	Chen Hong	15:12, 15:12
1.	2003	Indonesia Open	Chen Hong	15: 9, 15: 9
1.	2004	Indonesia Open	Chen Hong	15:10, 15:11
1.	2005	Singapore Open	Chen Hong	15: 9, 15: 3
1.	2006	Indonesia Open	Bao Chunlai	21:18, 21:17
2.	2006	Japan Open	Lin Dan	21:16, 16:21, 3:21
BWF Grand Prix Gold
2.	2007	Chinese Taipei Open	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	21:18, 6:21, 13:21
2.	2007	Macau Open	Chen Jin	21:19, 17:21, 18:21
1.	2008	Macau Open	Lee Chong Wei	21:19, 21:15
1.	2009	India Open	Muhammad Hafiz Hashim	21:18, 21:19
1.	2010	Indonesia Open GPG	Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka	26:28, 21:17, 21:14
1.	2011	Syed Modi Memorial	Sourabh Varma	21:15, 21:18
BWF Grand Prix
1.	2009	US Open	Hsueh Hsuan-Yi	21:15, 21:16
1.	2010	Canada Open	Brice Leverdez	21:15, 21:11
2.	2011	Canada Open	Marc Zwiebler	13:21, 23:25

Web links

Commons : Taufik Hidayat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Taufik Hidayat ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Taufik Hidayat in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Taufik Hidayat's website on Olympic.org
• Taufik Hidayat's website on Yonex.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AFP: Hidayat to call it quits next year ( English ) japantoday. 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012.