Susi Susanti

Susi Susanti
Susanti carrying a torch fire during the 2018 Asian Games Torch Relay Concert in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Personal information
Full name	Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti
Birth name	Ong Lien Hiang 王蓮香
Country	Indonesia
Born	(1971-02-11) 11 February 1971 Tasikmalaya, Indonesia
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	1
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Indonesia Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Singles 1996 Atlanta Singles World Championships 1993 Birmingham Singles 1991 Copenhagen Singles 1995 Lausanne Singles Asian Games 1990 Beijing Team 1994 Hiroshima Team 1990 Beijing Singles 1994 Hiroshima Singles Badminton World Cup 1989 Guangzhou Singles 1993 New Delhi Singles 1994 Ho Chi Minh Singles 1996 Jakarta Singles 1997 Yogyakarta Singles Uber Cup 1994 Jakarta Team 1996 Hong Kong Team 1998 Hong Kong Team Sudirman Cup 1989 Jakarta Team 1991 Copenhagen Team 1993 Birmingham Team 1995 Lausanne Team

Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti (born 11 February 1971 in Tasikmalaya, West Java^[1]) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. Relatively small of stature, she combined quick and graceful movement with elegant shotmaking technique, and rates among the most successful players in the history of the women's game. Sometimes her name is also spelled Susi Susanti. She's the first Indonesian Olympic gold medalist and the only Indonesian woman until Lilyana Natsir won gold in 2016.

Career

She won the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain and the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States. She retired from the world badminton circuit not long after her marriage to Alan Budikusuma (who had also won a badminton singles gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics) in February 1997. Susanti was the most dominant women's singles player in the first half of the 1990s, winning the All-England in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, the World Badminton Grand Prix finale five times consecutively from 1990 to 1994 as well as in 1996, and the IBF World Championships in 1993. She is the only female player to hold the Olympic, World Championship, and All-England singles titles simultaneously. She won the Japan Open three times and the Indonesian Open five times. She also won numerous Badminton Grand Prix Series events and five Badminton World Cups. She led the Indonesian team to victory over perennial champion China in the 1994 and 1996 Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions. All of this came during a relatively strong period in women's international badminton. Her chief competitors early in her prime years were the Chinese players Tang Jiuhong and Huang Hua, and, later, China's Ye Zhaoying and the Korean Bang Soo-hyun.

Susanti was inducted into the International Badminton Federation (IBF, currently BWF) Hall of Fame in May 2004, and received the Herbert Scheele Trophy in 2002.

Personal life

She is married to Alan Budikusuma (Chinese: 魏仁芳), a men's badminton Olympic gold medalist (also in 1992) and one of the top men's players in the history of the sport, a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player who excelled at the world level from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Together they have three children Laurencia Averina, born 1999.^[2]

Achievements

Olympic Games

1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain

Round	Opponent	Score	Result
Round of 64	–	–	Bye
Round of 32	Harumi Kohara	11–2, 11–2	Win
Round of 16	Wong Chun Fan	11–4, 11–2	Win
Quarterfinals	Somharuthai Jaroensiri	11–6, 11–1	Win
Semifinals	Huang Hua	11–4, 11–1	Win
Final	Bang Soo Hyun	5–11, 11–5, 11–3	Gold

1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States of America

Round	Opponent	Score	Result
Round of 64	–	–	Bye
Round of 32	Doris Piche	11–1, 11–3	Win
Round of 16	Katarzyna Krasowska	11–4, 11–0	Win
Quarterfinals	Han Jingna	3–11, 11–4, 11–8	Win
Semifinals	Bang Soo Hyun	9–11, 8–11	Lost
Bronze Medal Match	Kim Ji-Hyun	11–4, 11–1	Bronze

World Championships

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1995	Malley Sports Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland	Ye Zhaoying	11–5, 8–11, 2–11	Bronze
1993	National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England	Bang Soo-hyun	7–11, 11–9, 11–3	Gold
1991	Brøndby Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark	Tang Jiuhong	4–11, 1–11	Bronze

World Cup

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1997	Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Ye Zhaoying	11–8, 11–5	Gold
1996	Jakarta, Indonesia	Wang Chen	11–7, 11–4	Gold
1995	Jakarta, Indonesia	Ye Zhaoying	9–12, 11–2, 9–12	Silver
1994	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Bang Soo-hyun	12–9, 11–6	Gold
1993	New Delhi, India	Lim Xiaoqing	11–7, 11–5	Gold
1990	Jakarta, Indonesia	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	5–11, 11–1, 11–12	Silver
1989	Guangzhou, China	Han Aiping	11–5, 11–4	Gold

World Badminton Grand Prix Finals

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1997	Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia	Ye Zhaoying	4–11, 4–11	Silver
1996	Denpasar, Indonesia	Ye Zhaoying	11–4, 11–1	Gold
1994	Bangkok, Thailand	Ye Zhaoying	4–11, 12–10, 11–4	Gold
1993	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Ye Zhaoying	11–3, 12–9	Gold
1992	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	9–11, 11–3, 11–4	Gold
1991	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Lee Heung-soon	9–11, 11–8, 11–1	Gold
1990	Denpasar, Indonesia	Tang Jiuhong	8–11, 11–5, 12–10	Gold

     World Badminton Grand Prix Finals

Asian Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1994	Tsuru Memorial Gymnasium Hiroshima, Japan	Hisako Mizui	4–11, 5–11	Bronze
1990	Beijing, China	Tang Jiuhong	11–7, 1–11, 7–11	Bronze

Asia Championships

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1988	Bandar Lampung, Indonesia	Tang Jiuhong		Bronze

Southeast Asian Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1995	Chiang Mai, Thailand	Somharuthai Jaroensiri	11–4, 11–0	Gold(3)
1991	Manila, Philippines	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	5–11, 11–8, 11–2	Gold(2)
1989	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani		Gold(1)
1987	Jakarta, Indonesia	Elizabeth Latief	5–11, 9–11	Silver

     Multi Events

Open Tournaments

Year	Tournament	Opponent in the Final	Score	Result
1998	Singapore Open	Ye Zhaoying	5–11, 6–11, 2–11	Runner-up
1997	Vietnam Open	Xu Huaiwen	11–4, 11–1	Winner
1997	Indonesia Open	Meiluawati	11–4, 11–5	Winner(5)
1997	Malaysia Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–5, 11–7	Winner(4)
1996	Chinese Taipei Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–5, 11–2	Winner(3)
1996	Indonesia Open	Wang Chen	11–8, 11–8	Winner(4)
1996	Japan Open	Ye Zhaoying	7–11, 8–11	Runner-up
1995	Korea Open	Bang Soo-hyun	3–11, 11–7, 11–9	Winner
1995	Indonesia Open	Bang Soo-hyun	11–1, 12–11	Winner(3)
1995	Malaysia Open	Bang Soo-hyun	11–1, 11–6	Winner(3)
1995	Japan Open	Bang Soo-hyun	11–7, 12–11	Winner(3)
1994	Indonesia Open	Bang Soo-hyun	2–11, 11–0, 11–7	Winner(2)
1994	Thailand Open	Lim Xiaoqing	11–5, 12–10	Winner(4)
1994	Malaysia Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–3, 11–8	Winner(2)
1994	Japan Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–6, 10–12, 11–8	Winner(2)
1994	All England Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–5, 11–9	Winner(4)
1994	Chinese Taipei Open	Kim Ji-hyun	11–2, 11–5	Winner(2)
1993	Dutch Open	Camilla Martin	11–7, 11–1	Winner
1993	German Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–6, 11–8	Winner(2)
1993	Korea Open	Bang Soo-hyun	9–12, 5–11	Runner-up
1993	Thailand Open	Somharuthai Jaroensiri	12–10, 11–2	Winner(3)
1993	Indonesia Open	Ye Zhaoying	9–11, 11–12	Runner-up
1993	Malaysia Open	Lim Xiaoqing	11–6, 11–2	Winner(1)
1993	All England Open	Bang Soo-hyun	4–11, 11–4, 11–1	Winner(3)
1992	Thailand Open	Bang Soo-hyun	11–7, 11–4	Winner(2)
1992	Hong Kong Open	Bang Soo-hyun	11–5, 6–11, 7–11	Runner-up
1992	German Open	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	11–7, 10–12, 11–8	Winner(1)
1992	Japan Open	Ye Zhaoying	11–2, 11–0	Winner(1)
1992	Denmark Open	Lim Xiaoqing	11–3, 11–3	Winner(2)
1991	Swedish Open	Pernille Nedergaard	11–2, 11–3	Winner
1991	Thailand Open	Lee Heung-soon	11–7, 11–4	Winner(1)
1991	Denmark Open	Huang Hua	11–5, 6–11, 11–8	Winner(1)
1991	Indonesia Open	Lee Heung-soon	11–8, 11–3	Winner(1)
1991	All England Open	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	0–11, 11–2, 11–6	Winner(2)
1991	Japan Open	Huang Hua	3–11, 6–11	Runner-up
1991	Chinese Taipei Open	Somharuthai Jaroensiri	11–1, 11–2	Winner(1)
1990	Indonesia Open	Lee Young-suk	11–1, 8–11, 4–11	Runner-up
1990	Australian Open	Anna Lao	11–1, 11–4	Winner
1990	All England Open	Huang Hua	12–11, 11–1	Winner(1)
1989	Indonesia Open	Huang Hua	7–11, 0–11	Runner-up
1989	All England Open	Li Lingwei	8–11, 4–11	Runner-up

     Open Tournament

References

External links

• Setelah Sepuluh Tahun Gantung Raket (in Indonesian)
• Susi Susanti Sempat Tidak Tahu Masuk Daftar Rekor dunia (in Indonesian)
• Susi Susanti at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
• Susi Susanti at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
• Susi Susanti at the International Olympic Committee