List of All England mixed doubles champions
The champions and runners-up of the All England Open Badminton Championships Mixed Doubles tournament, first introduced to the championship in 1899. From 1915 to 1919, and from 1940 to 1946, no competition was held due to the two World Wars.
Location | Birmingham United Kingdom |
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Venue | Utilita Arena Birmingham |
Governing body | NEC Group |
Created | 1899 |
Editions | Total: 114 Open era (since 1980): 45 |
Prize money | $96,200 (2024) |
Trophy | Mixed Doubles Trophy |
Website | allenglandbadminton.com |
Most titles | |
Amateur era | 8: George Alan Thomas 8: Betty Uber 8: Finn Kobberø |
Open era | 5: Chung Myung-hee 5: Park Joo-bong 5: Ra Kyung-min 5: Gao Ling |
Most consecutive titles | |
Amateur era | 7: Betty Uber |
Open era | 3: Chung Myung-hee 3: Park Joo-bong 3: Gao Ling 3: Tontowi Ahmad 3: Liliyana Natsir |
Current champion | |
Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong – 2024 (3rd title for Zheng, 4th title for Huang) |
History
editIn the Amateur era, George Alan Thomas (1903, 1906-1907, 1911, 1914, 1920-1922), Betty Uber (1930-1936, 1938) and Finn Kobberø (1955, 1957, 1960-1963, 1965-1966) jointly holds the record for the most titles in the Mixed Doubles, winning All England eight times. Betty Uber holds the record for most consecutive titles with seven from 1930 to 1936.
Since the Open era of badminton began in late 1979[1][2] with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Chung Myung-hee and Park Joo-bong (1989-1991), Gao Ling (2006-2008), Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir (2012-2014), share the record for most consecutive victories with three.
Gillian Perrin, Nora Gardner, Mike Tredgett, Steen Skovgaard, Christian Hadinata and Imelda Wiguna are the only players in history to reach the All England Open Badminton Mixed Doubles Final in both the Amateur and Open era. Gilks managed to do so a total of nine times, winning four, Gardner ten, Tredgett six, both winning twice, Skovgaard twice but never won and Hadinata, partnering Wiguna, thrice but winless in the Open era.
Finalists
editAmateur era
editOpen era
editStatistics
editMultiple titles
editBold indicates active players.
Champions by country
editRank | Country | Amateur era | Open era | All-time | First title | Last title | First champions | Last champions |
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1 | England (ENG) | 45 | 8 | 53 | 1899 | 2005 | D. Oakes Daisy St. John |
Gail Emms Nathan Robertson |
2 | Denmark (DEN) | 18 | 3 | 21 | 1947 | 1995 | Poul Holm Tonny Olsen |
Thomas Lund Marlene Thomsen |
3 | China (CHN) | 0 | 15 | 15 | 1988 | 2024 | Fangjing Shi Pengren Wang |
Yaqiong Huang Siwei Zheng |
4 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1986 | 2004 | Myung-hee Chung Joo-bong Park |
Dong-moon Kim Kyung-min Ra |
5 | Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1979 | 2020 | Christian Hadinata Imelda Wiguna |
Praveen Jordan Melati Daeva Oktavianti |
6 | Ireland (IRL) | 3.5 | 0 | 3.5 | 1923 | 1937 | Gordon Mack Margaret Larminie |
Ian Maconachie Thelma Kingsbury |
7 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 2022 | Arisa Higashino Yuta Watanabe | |
8 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1949 | 1949 | Clinton Stephens Patsey Stephens | |
9 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 1953 | 1953 | David Ewe Leong Choong June White | |
Scotland (SCO) | 0 | 0.5 | 1983 | 1983 | Billy Gilliland Nora Gardner | |||
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0.5 | 1985 | 1985 | Thomas Kihlström Nora Gardner |
Multiple finalists
editNotes
editMany female badminton players change their surname after marriage. Below are some of the former names or latest names as noted in the table above:
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "All England Open History: long trousers to Lin Dan". www.allenglandbadminton.com. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Brahms, Bernd-Volker (17 January 2014). Badminton Handbook. Meyer & Meyer Sport. p. 1972. ISBN 9781782553540. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
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External links
edit- All England Champions 1899-2007
- BadmintonEngland.co.uk
- badmintoneurope.com
- Pat Davis (1987). The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. ISBN 978-0-7090-2796-6.