Apriyani Rahayu (born 29 April 1998) is an Indonesian
badminton
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player specializing in doubles. She and
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Sh ...
are the reigning
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champions in the
women's doubles following their win at the
2020 Summer Olympics. She won gold at the
2019 SEA Games
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, and two bronze medals at the
World Championships
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in 2018 and 2019.
Rahayu also won bronze medals at the
2018 Asian Games
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in the women's team and doubles with her former partner Greysia Polii.
Early life
Apriyani Rahayu was born in Lawulo village, a remote settlement in
Konawe Regency
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in
Southeast Sulawesi
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. She is the youngest child of an agricultural worker named Ameruddin Pora and his wife, Sitti Jauhar. As a child Rahayu would fight with neighborhood boys, and her father encouraged her to devote her energy to badminton instead, which she agreed to. According to Rahayu's cousin, her father served as her trainer, with a training regimen including running 10 kilometers to competitions and practicing on a homemade court behind his house lined with areca nut trees. Pora was self-sufficient but poor. Rahayu used a homemade wooden racquet with fishing line for string, until her father was able to sell enough vegetables to buy a real racquet. However, Pora himself credits Rahayu's mother as providing her with support and training. Sitti Jauhar was an enthusiastic player of badminton, table tennis and volleyball and encouraged Rahayu to be tough and competitive. In 2007, at the age of 9, she represented Konawe Regency in a regional competition. In 2011, at the age of 13, she was scouted by Yuslan Kisra who brought her in contact with
Icuk Sugiarto
Icuk Sugiarto (born 4 October 1962) is an Indonesian former badminton player.
Career
Largely a speed and power player, Sugiarto won the gold medal at the 1983 IBF World Championships, upsetting fellow countryman Liem Swie King in the final, ...
who recruited her to his club PB Pelita Bakri (now ISTC) and later on PB Jaya Raya Jakarta for international level play.
Sitti Jauhar died in 2015 while Apriyani was at a championship in Peru, but she played through after hearing the news, winning two medals.
Career
2017: French Open and Thailand Open title
In May, Rahayu partnered with her senior and mentor
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Sh ...
, and they competed as a new pair at the
Sudirman Cup
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in
Gold Coast, Australia.
Even though they had only been paired for about a month, the duo won their first title in the
Thailand Open after defeating the home pair
Chayanit Chaladchalam and
Phataimas Muenwong in straight games 21–12, 21–12 in the final.
They also won the
Superseries title at the
French Open
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, just five months into their partnership.
Other achievements by Polii and Rahayu in 2017 were runner-up in
Hong Kong
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,
semi-finalists in
New Zealand
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,
and quarter-finalists in
Korea Open.
Rahayu also helped the Indonesia women's team win the bronze medal at the
SEA Games
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held in Kuala Lumpur,
unfortunately, in the individual women's doubles event, she and Polii lost in the first round to eventual champion
Jongkolphan Kititharakul
Jongkolphan Kititharakul ( th, จงกลพรรณ กิติธรากุล; born 1 March 1993) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in doubles. She was the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, also ...
and
Rawinda Prajongjai
Rawinda Prajongjai ( th, รวินดา ประจงใจ; born 29 June 1993) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of the national women's team that clinched the gold medal at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, also won th ...
of Thailand.
The Polii and Rahayu partnership, first paired in May, reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World rankings in November.
2018: India Open and third Thailand Open title
In January, Rahayu and Polii began the season by finishing as runners-up in the
Indonesia Masters, losing to second seeded
Misaki Matsutomo and
Ayaka Takahashi in the final.
A month later, the duo played as the third seeds in the
India Open and won the title after beating the first-seeded
Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen (born 12 May 1986) is a Danish badminton player.
Career
Christinna Pedersen is a right-handed doubles specialist.
From 2008 onwards, Pedersen paired with Joachim Fischer Nielsen in mixed doubles. The pair gained two Euro ...
and
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl (born 23 November 1983) is a retired Danish badminton player. Juhl is an Olympic silver medalist, World Championship gold medalist and seven times European champion as well.
Career
Rytter Juhl played as a left-handed doub ...
in the semi-finals, and the second-seeded
Jongkolphan Kititharakul
Jongkolphan Kititharakul ( th, จงกลพรรณ กิติธรากุล; born 1 March 1993) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in doubles. She was the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, also ...
and
Rawinda Prajongjai
Rawinda Prajongjai ( th, รวินดา ประจงใจ; born 29 June 1993) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of the national women's team that clinched the gold medal at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, also won th ...
in the final.
She featured in the Indonesian women's team that won bronze at the
Asia Team Championships held in
Alor Setar
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and were quarter-finalists in the
Uber Cup
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in Bangkok.
In July, she and her partner lost in the quarter-finals of the
Indonesia Open to
Yuki Fukushima
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Marusugi Bluvic. She and her partner Sayaka Hirota won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. The duo were ranked as world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Achievements
...
and
Sayaka Hirota
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Saishunkan team. She and her partner Yuki Fukushima won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. Hirota and Fukushima were ranked world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Ach ...
,
but a week later, she won her second
Thailand Open title, as she and Polii defended the title they had won in Thailand the previous year, when the event was known as the Grand Prix.
In August, Rahayu and Polii won the bronze medal at the
World Championships
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in Nanjing,
and further bronze medals at the
Asian Games
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in the women's doubles and team events.
In the remainder of the 2018 tour, she and Polii only reached the semi-finals in
Japan,
China,
Denmark
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French,
Hong Kong
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, and quarter-finals in the
Fuzhou China Open.
The duo achieved their career high as world number 3 in the BWF rankings in September.
2019: Second India Open title, first SEA Games gold
Rahayu opened the 2019 season as a finalist in the
Malaysia Masters
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Badminton World Federation, BWF categorised Malaysia M ...
with Polii.
In the semi-finals, they beat their arch-rivals
Misaki Matsutomo and
Ayaka Takahashi in a close rubber game, improving their head-to-head record against the Japanese pair to 2–8. A week later, they again lost to Matsutomo and Takahashi in the
Indonesia Masters. They led 18–10 in the first game, but lost it 20–22, eventually losing the match in a close rubber game.
In March, she and Polii lost in the quarter-finals of both the
German
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and
All England Open
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.
Polii and Rahayu then clinched their second
India Open title defeating
Chow Mei Kuan
Chow Mei Kuan (; born 23 December 1994) is a Malaysian retired badminton player. She started playing badminton at the age of 7 in her primary school. Chow made a debut in the international senior tournament in 2012. She won gold medals at the ...
and
Lee Meng Yean
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Career
She was the 2011 Asian Junior Badm ...
in the final.
In May, she alongside the Indonesia team finished as semi-finalists in the
Sudirman Cup
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in Nanning, settling for the bronze medal.
In June, she and Polii advanced to the semi-finals of the
Australian Open
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after beating the first seeded, world number one
Mayu Matsumoto
is a Japanese badminton player. Born in Hokkaido, she graduated from Shiritsu Towanomorisanai High School. She was part of the Hokuto Bank team. Matsumoto was awarded as the 2018 Most Improved Player of the Year by the BWF together with her p ...
and
Wakana Nagahara
is a Japanese badminton player. She is a two-time world champion in the women's doubles. Nagahara attended Aomori Yamada High School, and was part of the Japanese national junior team that won the bronze medals at the 2013, 2014 Asian and 201 ...
in the quarter-finals, but the duo were beaten by Chinese pair
Chen Qingchen
Chen Qingchen (born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei. She ended the 2016 BWF Season by w ...
and
Jia Yifan
Jia Yifan (; ; born 29 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She won gold medals at the 2017, 2021, 2022 World Championships, 2018 Asian Games and at the 2019 Asian Championships.
Achievements
Olympic Games
''Women's doubles''
BWF ...
, the fifth defeat in seven meetings between them.
At the
World Championships
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in Basel, Switzerland, she and her partner won the bronze medal, after defeat in the semi-finals to eventual champions Matsumoto and Nagahara. After the World Championships, her coach,
Eng Hian
Eng Hian (; born 17 May 1977) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. A men's doubles specialist, he won major international tournaments, most of them in partnership with Flandy Limpele, between 1999 and 2006. They earned a bronze medal in m ...
, evaluated that she and Rahayu had fallen short of their previous standard. In the end of 2019 season, their best results were only the semi-finalists in
Chinese Taipei Open
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, after that, they often lost in the initial stage.
She finally won her first women's doubles gold medal at the
SEA Games
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. She and Polii defeated
Chayanit Chaladchalam and
Phataimas Muenwong of Thailand 21–3, 21–18.
2020: Home soil title

In 2020, Rahayu and Polii who ranked as world number eight started their tour in the
Malaysia Masters
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. At that tournament, they finished as semi-finalists defeated by Chinese pair
Li Wenmei
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and
Zheng Yu
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in a rubber game.
A week later in the
Indonesia Masters, Rahayu won her first ever international title in Indonesia, after she and Polii triumphed in a thrilling match against
Maiken Fruergaard
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and
Sara Thygesen
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of Denmark.
In February, she won her second title of the year by winning the
Barcelona Spain Masters. In the final, she and Polii defeated
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and
Stefani Stoeva
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of Bulgaria in a rubber game.
In March
All England Open
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, she and her partner lost in the first round to Korean pair
Chang Ye-na and
Kim Hye-rin in straight games.
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, numerous tournaments on the
2020 BWF World Tour
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were either cancelled or rescheduled for later in the year.
2021–2022: Olympic Games gold medal and new partner
Rahayu returned in the international competitions at the 2020 Asian Leg tournament in January 2021. Together with Polii, she won her first ever BWF Super 1000 tournament, the
Yonex Thailand Open.
A week later in the semi-finals of the
Toyota Thailand Open, Rahayu and Polii fell in two games to
Lee So-hee
Lee So-hee (Hangul: 이소희; ; born 14 June 1994) is a South Korean badminton player. She won the women's doubles title at the 2017 All England Open tournament. She also helped the Korean national team to win the world team championships a ...
and
Shin Seung-chan
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of South Korea.
The duo then played at the
World Tour Finals, but was eliminated in the group stage.
In March 2021, Rahayu scheduled to participating at the
All England Open
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, but later Indonesia team were forced to withdraw from the competition by BWF after the team members will self-isolate for 10 days from the date of their inbound flight after an anonym person traveling onboard tested positive for
COVID-19
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.
On 2 August 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she partnered with
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Sh ...
in the
women's doubles. In the finals they defeated 2017 world champion
Chen Qingchen
Chen Qingchen (born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei. She ended the 2016 BWF Season by w ...
and
Jia Yifan
Jia Yifan (; ; born 29 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She won gold medals at the 2017, 2021, 2022 World Championships, 2018 Asian Games and at the 2019 Asian Championships.
Achievements
Olympic Games
''Women's doubles''
BWF ...
. They became the first unseeded pair to win the gold medal in women's doubles. This was Indonesia's first Olympic gold in women's doubles. She and Polii are the third and fourth Indonesian women to win Olympic gold after
Susi Susanti
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in 1992 and
Liliyana Natsir
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in 2016. Rahayu and Polii's win made Indonesia the only country outside of China to have won gold medals in all five disciplines of
Badminton at the Summer Olympics
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. After her Olympic success, the Student Sports Training Center in Jakarta was named after her and Greysia Polii.
In September–October 2021, Rahayu alongside the Indonesian team competed at the
2021 Sudirman Cup
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in Vantaa, Finland. She played two match in the group stage against Canada and Denmark. Indonesia advanced to the knockout stage but lost at the quarterfinals against Malaysia.
In November 2021, Rahayu and Polii lost the finals of the
2021 Indonesia Open
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.
In May 2022, at the
2021 SEA Games
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, she started her journey with new partner,
Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti
Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (born 16 November 2000) is an Indonesian badminton player affiliated with Djarum club. She won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2017 Asian Junior Championships, and in the women's doubles at the 2021 SEA Gam ...
. The duo clinched the gold medal in the women's doubles after beating the Thai pair of
Benyapa Aimsaard and
Nuntakarn Aimsaard in the final.
This new pair immediately showed satisfying results, by winning the
Malaysia
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and
Singapore Opens,
and became finalists in the
Indonesia Masters.
2023
In January, Rahayu and Ramadhanti had to retired in the semi-finals of
Malaysia Open from first seed Chinese pair
Chen Qingchen
Chen Qingchen (born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei. She ended the 2016 BWF Season by w ...
and
Jia Yifan
Jia Yifan (; ; born 29 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player. She won gold medals at the 2017, 2021, 2022 World Championships, 2018 Asian Games and at the 2019 Asian Championships.
Achievements
Olympic Games
''Women's doubles''
BWF ...
, because of the injury of Ramadhanti.
They competed in the home tournament,
Indonesia Masters, but unfortunately lost in the quarter-finals from 4th seed Thai pair
Jongkolphan Kititharakul
Jongkolphan Kititharakul ( th, จงกลพรรณ กิติธรากุล; born 1 March 1993) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in doubles. She was the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, also ...
and
Rawinda Prajongjai
Rawinda Prajongjai ( th, รวินดา ประจงใจ; born 29 June 1993) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of the national women's team that clinched the gold medal at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, also won th ...
.
In February, Rahayu join the
Indonesia national badminton team
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to compete at the
Asia Mixed Team Championships, but unfortunately the teams lost in the quarter-finals from team Korea.
In March, Rahayu and Ramadhanti competed in the European tour at the
All England Open
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but lost in the quarter-finals from Korean pair
Baek Ha-na
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and
Lee So-hee
Lee So-hee (Hangul: 이소희; ; born 14 June 1994) is a South Korean badminton player. She won the women's doubles title at the 2017 All England Open tournament. She also helped the Korean national team to win the world team championships a ...
.
In the next tour, they competed in the
Swiss Open
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but lost in the semi-finals from 6th seed Japanese pair
Yuki Fukushima
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Marusugi Bluvic. She and her partner Sayaka Hirota won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. The duo were ranked as world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Achievements
...
and
Sayaka Hirota
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Saishunkan team. She and her partner Yuki Fukushima won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. Hirota and Fukushima were ranked world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Ach ...
.
In late April, Rahayu and Ramadhanti competed at the
Asian Championships
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;Aquatics
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in
Dubai
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, United Arab Emirates, but had to lose in the first round from Thai pair
Benyapa Aimsaard and
Nuntakarn Aimsaard.
Awards and nominations
Achievements
Olympic Games
''Women's doubles''
BWF World Championships
''Women's doubles''
Asian Games
''Women's doubles''
SEA Games
''Women's doubles''
BWF World Junior Championships
''Girls' doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
Asian Junior Championships
''Mixed doubles''
BWF World Tour (8 titles, 4 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.
''Women's doubles''
BWF Superseries (1 title, 1 runner-up)
The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(BWF). BWF Superseries levels were
Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.
''Women's doubles''
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BWF Superseries Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
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BWF Superseries Premier tournament
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BWF Superseries
The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007.
Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, S ...
tournament
BWF Grand Prix (1 title)
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the
Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.
''Women's doubles''
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BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
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BWF Grand Prix BWF may refer to: Sports organisations Badminton
* Badminton World Federation, an international governing body for badminton
Professional wrestling
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BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
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BWF International Challenge
The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation
The Badminton ...
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BWF International Series
The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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BWF Junior International (2 titles)
''Girls' doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
: BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
: BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
: BWF Junior International Series tournament
: BWF Junior Future Series tournament
Performance timeline
National team
* ''Junior level''
* ''Senior level''
Individual competitions
Junior level
''Girls' doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
Senior level
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=Mixed doubles
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Record against selected opponents
Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.
Greysia Polii
References
External links
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1998 births
Living people
People from Konawe Regency
Sportspeople from Southeast Sulawesi
Indonesian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players for Indonesia
Olympic gold medalists for Indonesia
Olympic medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games medalists in badminton