Susi Susanti

Susy Susanti
Personal information
Birth name	Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti
Country	Indonesia
Born	(1971-02-11) 11 February 1971 Tasikmalaya, Indonesia
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	1

Olympic medal record
Women's Badminton
	1992 Barcelona	Singles
	1996 Atlanta	Singles
World Championships
	1993 Birmingham	Women's Singles
	1995 Lausanne	Women's Singles
	1991 Copenhagen	Women's Singles
Asian Games
	1994 Hiroshima	Team
	1990 Beijing	Team
	1994 Hiroshima	Women's Singles
	1990 Beijing	Women's Singles
Badminton World Cup
	1989 Guangzhou	Women's Singles
	1993 New Delhi	Women's Singles
	1994 Ho Chi Minh	Women's Singles
	1996 Jakarta	Women's Singles
	1997 Yogyakarta	Women's Singles
Uber Cup
	1996 Hong Kong	Team
	1994 Jakarta	Team
	1998 Hong Kong	Team
Sudirman Cup
	1989 Jakarta	Team
	1991 Copenhagen	Team
	1993 Birmingham	Team
	1995 Lausanne	Team

Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti (Chinese: 王蓮香, born in Tasikmalaya, West Java on 11 February 1971^[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.

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 star 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 Lourencia Averina, born 1999, Albertus Edward, born in 2000 and Sebastianus Frederick, born in 2003. Alan and Susi have a badminton club in Jakarta Udara. Winning an olympic gold medal was historical for Indonesia, achieving the first Olympic gold medals in 50 years history of the country. Some estimated a crowd of at least 500,000; others estimated more than a million Indonesians were lining the streets of the massive, sprawling city of Jakarta when Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma came home in August 1992 and received a two-hour parade. They stood in an open car with leis and Olympic gold medals around their necks and inched toward the national monument in Merdeka square, on Sudirman, the main street, they could hardly move; it was jammed with people all shouting congratulations to the new badminton hero's.^[2]

In 2004, Susy and Alan established ASTEC (Alan and Susy Technology), a sport equipment corporation, to support their family. They use materials from Japan for the rackets and produced them in China. This brand has been growing up lately and marketed in most area in Indonesia. Beside ASTEC, the woman who was born in Tasikmalaya on February 11 in 1971 also opened a foot reflexology and sports physiotherapy center, “Fontana”. For this business, she works together with a former Indonesian badminton player, Elizabeth Latief. Now Fontana has four branches, three in Jakarta: Kelapa Gading, Sunter, Pondok Indah, plus one in Bogor.^[3]

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 Badminton Grand Prix Finals

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(6)
1994	Bangkok, Thailand	Ye Zhaoying	4–11, 12–10, 11–4	Gold(5)
1993	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Ye Zhaoying	11–3, 12–9	Gold(4)
1992	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Sarwendah Kusumawardhani	9–11, 11–3, 11–4	Gold(3)
1991	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Lee Heung-soon	9–11, 11–8, 11–1	Gold(2)
1990	Denpasar, Indonesia	Tang Jiuhong	8–11, 11–5, 12–10	Gold(1)

     World Badminton Grand Prix Finals

Southeast Asian Games

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

External links

• Setelah Sepuluh Tahun Gantung Raket (Indonesian)
• Susi Susanti Sempat Tidak Tahu Masuk Daftar Rekor dunia (Indonesian)

References

1. ↑ olympic.org
2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/25/sports/atlanta-1996-badminton-indonesia-this-no-picnic-southeast-asia-respect-rides.html#h[]
3. ↑ http://www.badzine.net/features/where-are-they-now-susy-susanti-still-contributes-to-badminton/1848/