Indonesia Has Collected 50 Titles In All England In Total

Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir successfully won three consecutive All England titles (doc. PBSI).

JAKARTA Indonesia has collected a total of 50 titles from the world's oldest badminton tournament, All England, which this week is taking place in Birmingham, England.

From the collection of 50 titles, the men's doubles sector is still the king. This number has a collection of the most titles, with 23 titles.

The other four sectors that follow men's doubles are men's singles 15 titles, mixed doubles six titles, women's singles four titles, and women's doubles two titles.

The men's singles Tan Joe Hok is Indonesia's first badminton player to feel the podium of the All England champion in 1959, while the event was still taking place at Wembley, England.

The Indonesian badminton player who holds the record for the most men's singles titles at All England is Rudy Hartono.

He collected eight titles, seven of which were won in a row from 1968 to 1974. Meanwhile, another was obtained in 1976.

Although recently many badminton players, Rudy Hartono's record eight men's singles titles have not been broken. The only badminton player who approached the collection was Lin Dan from China.

Six other titles owned by men's singles were summarized by Liem Swie King (1978, 1979, and 1981), Ardy Wiranata (1991), and finally Hariyanto Arbi who won twice in a row in 1993 and 1994.

The men's doubles sector, the most successful pair are Tjun Tjun/Johan Wahjudi. These doubles managed to get six titles won in 1974 and 1975 and continued with four consecutive titles from 1977 to 1980.

Then, the couple Christian Hadinata/Ade Chandra, Rudy Heryanto/Hariamanto Kartono, Ricky Subagja/Rexy Mainaky, Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan, and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, each won two All England titles.

Continuing to seven other titles contributed by Rudy Gunawan/Eddy Hartono, Rudy Gunawan/Bambang Supriyanto, Candra Wijaya/Tony Gunawan, Tony Gunawan/Halim Haryanto, Candra Wijaya/Sigit Budiarto, Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri, and Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto.

Shifting to the women's singles number, the most successful badminton players were Susi Susanti who bought four titles. The 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist won the All England in 1990, 1991, 1993, and 1994.

The next number is the women's doubles. Two titles from this sector were obtained by Minami Sudaryanto/Retno Koestijah in 1968 and Verawaty Fadjrin/Imelda Wiguna in 1979.

In the mixed doubles sector, the most successful pair are Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir. They won in All England three times in a row, namely in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Then, Praveen Jordan won twice at All England. First, he won the title with Debby Susanto in 2016 and the second title was won when he was paired with Melati Daeva Oktavianti in 2020.

One last title in the mixed doubles is owned by Christian Hadinata/Imelda Wiguna. The pair became the champion at All England in 1979.

This 50 title collection makes Indonesia the fourth most successful country in All England history. Red-White is behind England (194 titles), Denmark (89 titles), and China (87 titles).