The Badminton Asia Championships (the new name used for the first time in 2007 edition, formerly known as Asian Badminton Championships) is a tournament organized by the Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.
The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had been played rotated between team and individual competitions before the team event nulled since 1994.[1]
However the 2003 event lifted some controversy when China decided to pull out from the tournament at the last minute. Headcoach Li Yongbo said the tournament did not award any ranking points for 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give the players more time to rest.[2] Some of the top players also willing to pull out from the tournament since the competitiveness of the event was low.
Championships
The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the Asia Championships.
Past winners
Team competition
Men's team competition started in 1962 and last played in 1993. In 2016, Badminton Asia decided to create a new men's and women's team championships which also serves as qualification tournament for the Thomas and Uber Cups Finals.[3] Another new team tournament using mixed team format, named as Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships, was initiated in 2017.[4]
Badminton Asia Team Championships
Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships
Successful players and national teams
Asian Champions who also became World Champions
List of players who have won Asia Championships and also won the BWF World Championships to become both the Asian Champion and World Champion.
| Type | Player | Asian Champion (Year) | World Champion (Year) |
| Mixed Doubles |  Christian Hadinata | 1971 | 1980 |
| Men's Doubles | Tjun Tjun | 1976 | 1977 |
| Men's Doubles | Ade Chandra | 1976 | 1980 |
| Women's Doubles |  Guan Weizhen | 1983 | 1987, 1989, 1991 |
| Mixed Doubles |  Park Joo-bong | 1983, 1991 | 1985, 1989, 1991 |
| Men's Singles | Zhao Jianhua | 1985 | 1991 |
| Men's Doubles | Park Joo-bong | 1985, 1991 | 1985, 1991 |
| Men's Doubles | Kim Moon-soo | 1985, 1991 | 1985, 1991 |
| Women's Singles | Tang Jiuhong | 1988 | 1991 |
| Mixed Doubles | Chung Myung-hee | 1991 | 1989, 1991 |
| Women's Singles | Ye Zhaoying | 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 | 1995, 1997 |
| Women's Doubles | Ge Fei | 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 | 1997, 1999 |
| Women's Doubles | Gu Jun | 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 | 1997, 1999 |
| Mixed Doubles | Liu Yong | 1995 | 1997 |
| Mixed Doubles | Ge Fei | 1995 | 1997 |
| Men's Doubles | Candra Wijaya | 1996 | 1997 |
| Men's Singles | Sun Jun | 1997 | 1999 |
| Mixed Doubles | Zhang Jun | 1997, 2002 | 2001 |
| Men's Doubles | Ha Tae-kwon | 1998, 1999, 2002 | 1999 |
| Mixed Doubles | Kim Dong-moon | 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004 | 1999, 2003 |
| Mixed Doubles | Ra Kyung-min | 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004 | 1999, 2003 |
| Men's Singles | Taufik Hidayat | 2000, 2004, 2007 | 2005 |
| Women's Singles | Xie Xingfang | 2000 | 2005, 2006 |
| Men's Doubles | Rexy Mainaky | 2000 | 1995 |
| Men's Doubles | / Tony Gunawan | 2000 | 2001, 2005 |
| Men's Singles | Xia Xuanze | 2001 | 2003 |
| Women's Singles | Zhang Ning | 2001 | 2003 |
| Women's Doubles | Gao Ling | 2001 | 2001, 2003, 2006 |
| Mixed Doubles | Gao Ling | 2002 | 2001 |
| Mixed Doubles | Nova Widianto | 2003, 2006 | 2005, 2007 |
| Men's Doubles | Sigit Budiarto | 2004 | 1997 |
| Men's Doubles | Markis Kido | 2005, 2009 | 2007 |
| Men's Doubles | Hendra Setiawan | 2005, 2009 | 2007, 2013, 2015 |
| Women's Doubles | Du Jing | 2006 | 2010 |
| Women's Doubles | Yu Yang | 2006, 2011, 2013 | 2010, 2011, 2013 |
| Mixed Doubles | Liliyana Natsir | 2006, 2015 | 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017 |
| Women's Doubles | Yang Wei | 2007, 2008 | 2005, 2007 |
| Women's Doubles | Zhao Tingting | 2007 | 2009 |
| Women's Doubles | Zhang Jiewen | 2008 | 2005, 2007 |
| Women's Singles | Zhu Lin | 2009 | 2007 |
| Women's Doubles | Wang Xiaoli | 2009, 2011, 2013 | 2011, 2013 |
| Men's singles | Lin Dan | 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 | 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 |
| Women's Doubles | Tian Qing | 2010, 2012 | 2014, 2015 |
| Women's Singles | Wang Yihan | 2011, 2013, 2016 | 2011 |
| Men's Doubles | Fu Haifeng | 2011 | 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| Men's Doubles | Cai Yun | 2011 | 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| Mixed Doubles | Zhang Nan | 2011, 2012, 2016 | 2011, 2014, 2015 |
| Mixed Doubles | Zhao Yunlei | 2011, 2012, 2016 | 2011, 2014, 2015 |
| Men's Singles | Chen Jin | 2012 | 2010 |
| Women's Doubles | Zhao Yunlei | 2012 | 2014, 2015 |
| Men's Doubles | Ko Sung-hyun | 2013 | 2014 |
| Men's Doubles | Shin Baek-cheol | 2014 | 2014 |
| Women's Singles |  Ratchanok Intanon | 2015 | 2013 |
| Mixed Doubles | Tontowi Ahmad | 2015 | 2013, 2017 |
| Men's Singles | Chen Long | 2017 | 2014, 2015 |
| Men's Doubles | Li Junhui | 2017, 2018 | 2018 |
| Men's Doubles | Liu Yuchen | 2017, 2018 | 2018 |
| Mixed Doubles | Huang Yaqiong | 2017 | 2018 |
| Men's Singles |  Kento Momota | 2018 | 2018 |
Successful players
Below is the list of the most ever successful players in the Badminton Asia Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.
MS: Men's singles; WS: Women's singles; MD: Men's doubles; WD: Women's doubles; XD: Mixed doubles
Successful national teams
Below is the gold medalists shown based by category and countries. China has been the most successful in the Asia Championships. They were the only country ever to achieve a shutout of the medals which they did in 2011.
BOLD means overall winner of that Asia Championships
- ^1 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.
- ^2 China won on superior of silver medal to Korea, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^3 China won on superior of silver medal of three silver medals to Malaysia none, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^4 Indonesia won on superior of silver medal of four silver medals to South Korea one, thus, Indonesia became overall winner.
- ^5 China won on superior of silver medal of two silver medals to South Korea none, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^6 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to South Korea one, thus, China became overall winner.
- ^6 China won on superior of bronze medal of four bronze medals to Japan none, thus, China became overall winner.
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