Sarwendah Kusumawardhani

Sarwendah Kusumawardhani Sukiran (born August 22, 1967)^[1] is a retired female badminton player from Indonesia.

Career

Kusumawardhani rated among the world's leading singles players in the late 1980s and early 1990s, though she was somewhat overshadowed by her younger Indonesian teammate, Susi Susanti. Her titles included the Dutch Open (1987, 1991, 1992), the Swiss Open (1990, 1991), the Malaysia Open (1991), the Badminton World Cup (1990), and the Southeast Asian Games (1991). Kusumawardhani came close in badminton's three most prestigious tournaments for individual players. She was a bronze medalist at the 1989 IBF World Championships and a silver medalist to China's Tang Jiuhong at the tournament's next edition in 1991. She was also runner-up at the venerable All-England Championships in 1991, this time to Susanti. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics won by Susanti, Kusumawardhani missed reaching the medal rounds by the narrowest of margins, losing in the quarterfinals.^[2] She is married to Hermawan Susanto who was one of Indonesia's and the world's leading men's singles players in the 1990s.

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