1983 Asian Badminton Championships

The Asian Badminton Championships 1983 took place from 1 to 8 December in Calcutta, India.^[1] Both individual competitions and men's team competition were conducted. At the end of day, China took titles from four disciplines, Men's singles, Men's doubles, Women's doubles and Men's team competitions while South Korea won Women's singles and Mixed doubles events.^[2]

Medalists[]

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Chen Changjie	Eddy Kurniawan	Park Joo-bong
			Zhao Jianhua
Women's singles	Yoo Sang-hee	Kim Yun-ja
			Guan Weizhen
Men's doubles	Jiang Guoliang	Sung Han-kuk	Hadibowo
			Zhao Jianhua
Women's doubles	Guan Weizhen	Kim Bok-sun	Chung Myung-hee Yoo Sang-hee
Mixed doubles	Park Joo-bong Kim Yun-ja		Hadibowo Maria Francisca
Men's team	China Chen Changjie Zhao Jianhua Jiang Guoliang	India Prakash Padukone Leroy D'Sa Uday Pawar Syed Modi Partho Ganguli	Indonesia Eddy Kurniawan Hadibowo
			Japan Shinji Matsuura Shuji Matsuno

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	0	5	9
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	2	7
3	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	3	5
4	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
5	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		6	6	12	24

Final results[]

Discipline	Winner	Finalist	Score
Men's singles	Chen Changjie	Eddy Kurniawan	11���15, 15–6, 18–15
Women's singles	Yoo Sang-hee	Kim Yun-ja	11–6, 11–2
Men's doubles	Jiang Guoliang	Sung Han-kook	18–15, 15–4
Women's doubles	Guan Weizhen	Kim Bok-sun	15–11, 15–3
Mixed doubles	Park Joo-bong Kim Yun-ja

Semifinal results[]

Discipline	Winner	Runner-up	Score
Men's singles	Chen Changjie	Park Joo-bong	15–9, 15–7
	Eddy Kurniawan	Zhao Jianhua	18–15, 6–15, 18–15
Women's singles	Yoo Sang-hee		11–7, 9–12, 11–4
	Kim Yun-ja	Guan Weizhen	7–11, 11–4, 11–1
Men's doubles	Jiang Guoliang	Hadibowo	15–9, 6–15, 15–1
	Sung Han-kook	Zhao Jianhua	15–10, 15–6
Women's doubles	Guan Weizhen	Chung Myung-hee Yoo Sang-hee	10–15, 15–6, 17–14
	Kim Bok-sun		18–13, 15–10
Mixed doubles	Park Joo-bong Kim Yun-ja	Hadibowo Maria Francisca	15–4, 15–5
			15–10, 17–14

Men's team results[]

Semifinals[]

1.  China 4 : 1  Japan
2.  India 3 : 2  Indonesia

Final[]

China V/s India

China 3	Calcutta 5 December 1983		India 2
1 2 3 1 Chen Changjie Prakash Padukone 15 8 15 8     2 Zhao Jianhua Syed Modi 15 1 18 14     3  / Jiang Guoliang Leroy D'Sa / Uday Pawar 15 2 15 11

• China conceded remaining two matches to India.

References[]

3. "Indonesia are in last four". The Straits Times. 4 December 1983. p. 35.

4. "China show shuttle supremacy". The Straits Times. 5 December 1983. p. 47.