The India national badminton team is the representative of
India
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in international men's and women's badminton team tournaments. It is governed by the
Badminton Association of India
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.
The men's team won the
Thomas Cup
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in
2022
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, while the women's team have been semi-finalists at the
Uber Cup
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in
2014
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and
2016
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. The team
competed in the
2011 Sudirman Cup
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and shared the fifth rank and also repeated the performance in
2017
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Events January
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.
The Indian team is currently 8th in the world rankings. The players have won 3 medals at the
Summer Olympics
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, 14 at the
World Championships
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, 7 at the
Asian Games
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, 18 at the
Asian Championships
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and 25 at the
Commonwealth Games
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.
Coaches
Medal table
Individual
Team
Current rankings
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Highest rankings
''Note: Active players in bold''
Top 10 rankers
''Note: Active players in bold''
Individual record
Olympic Games
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World Championships
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Asian Games
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Asian Championships
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;Aquatics and wate ...
Commonwealth Games
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South Asian Games
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Senior team record
Thomas Cup
The Thomas Cup, sometimes referred as World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport's global governing body. The championships h ...
Uber Cup
The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...
Sudirman Cup
The Sudirman Cup is an international badminton mixed team competition contested by member countries of the Badminton World Federation, the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every two years since the inaugural tourn ...
Commonwealth Games
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Mixed team
Men's team
Women's team
Asian Games
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Men's team
Women's team
Asian Championships
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;Aquatics and wate ...
Mixed team
Men's team
Women's team
South Asian Games
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Men's team
Women's team
: ''** Red border indicates tournament was held on home soil.''
Junior team record
World Junior Championships
Asia Junior Championships
Mixed team
Boys' team
Girls' team
: ''** Red border indicates tournament was held on home soil.''
Notable former players
Men
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Prakash Padukone
Prakash Padukone (born 10 June 1955) is an Indian former badminton player. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1972 ...
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Pullela Gopichand
Pullela Gopichand (born 16 November 1973) is an Indian former badminton player. Currently, he is the Chief National Coach for the India national badminton team. He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001, becoming the second ...
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Syed Modi
Syed Modi (31 December 1962 – 28 July 1988), born as Syed Mehdi Hassan Zaidi, was an Indian badminton singles player. He was eight-time National Badminton champion (1980–1987). His most notable achievement at the international badminton c ...
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Parupalli Kashyap
Parupalli Kashyap (born 8 September 1986) is an Indian former badminton player. A former World No. 6, he is a coach at Gopichand Badminton Academy. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2012.
He became the first male player from India to reac ...
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Dinesh Khanna
Dinesh Kumar Khanna is an Indian former badminton player.
Career
Khanna was the men's singles Asian champion in 1965, and became the first Indian to win an Asian badminton title on 14 November 1965. He won a bronze medal in the 1966 Commonw ...
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Leroy D'Sa
Leroy Francis D'Sa (born 12 October 1953) is a retired Indian badminton player. D'sa is one of the first finest doubles player country has ever produced, and he dominated the Indian doubles internationally until late 80s.
D'sa is the only play ...
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U. Vimal Kumar
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Chetan Anand
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B. Sai Praneeth
Women
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Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was ...
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Jwala Gutta
Jwala Gutta (born 7 September 1983) is an Indian badminton player. Beginning in the late 1990s, she represented India at international events in both mixed and women's doubles. She has a total of 316 match wins in both the disciplinesthe most ...
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Ami Ghia
Ami Ghia Shah (born 8 December 1956) is an Indian former badminton player. She is a seven-time National singles champion, twelve-time doubles winner and a four-time mixed doubles winner. She received the Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Award, offi ...
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Aparna Popat
Aparna Popat (born 18 January 1978) is a former Indian badminton player. She was India's national champion for a record equaling nine times when she won all the senior national championships between 1997 and 2006.
Early life
Aparna Popat was ...
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P. V. V. Lakshmi
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Madhumita Bisht
Madhumita Bisht (born Madhumita Goswami on 5 October 1964 at Jalpaiguri) is an Indian former badminton player from West Bengal. She is an eight-time
National singles champion, nine-time doubles winner and a twelve-time mixed doubles winner. She ...
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Kanwal Thakar Singh
See also
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Badminton in India
Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is managed by the Badminton Association of India which is associated with Badminton Asia and Badminton World Federation.
Indian shuttlers Prakash Padukone, Srikanth Kidambi, Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwa ...
References
External links
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badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...