2005 IBF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The '2005 IBF World Championships' (14th tournament) was held in Anaheim, southern California, United States, from August 15 to August 21 2005.
2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's singles over China's Lin Dan, while Peter Gade of Denmark and Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei received bronze medals.
In the women's singles category, Xie Xinfang won the gold medal beating compatriot 2004 Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ning. Germany's Xu Huaiwen and Chinese Taipei's Shao-Chieh Cheng won bronze medals. Shao-Chieh Cheng also created some surprise results in the tournament.
Ladies doubles was almost an all-China show. 2004 Olympic gold medalists Zhang Jiewen/Yang Wei repeated their 2004 Olympic performance with victory over silver medalists Gao Ling/Huang Sui.
In the mixed doubles, number 1 seeds Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms of England backed out before commencement of the tournament due to an injury to Robertson. This paved the way for several pairs to contest the medals. Indonesia's Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir secured the gold over China's up and coming Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen. Zhang Yawen also become the only double medalist in this games winning the silver in mixed doubles and bronze in the ladies doubles.

Contents

Venue

Medalists

Participating nations

Results

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Medals table

External links

Venue

★ Arrowhead Pond

Medalists

Men's singles	Taufik Hidayat	Lin Dan	Peter Gade
			Lee Chong Wei
Women's singles	Xie Xingfang	Zhang Ning	Xu Huaiwen
			Cheng Shao-Chieh
Men's doubles	Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach	Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto	Luluk Hadiyanto and Alvent Yulianto
			Chan Chong Ming and Koo Kien Keat
Women's doubles	Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen	Gao Ling and Huang Sui	Zhang Dan and Zhang Yawen
			Kyung Won Lee and Hyo Jung Lee
Mixed doubles	Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir	Xie Zhongbo and Zhang Yawen	Daniel A Shirley and Sara Runesten-Petersen
			Sudket Prapakamol and Saralee Thoungthongkam

Participating nations

A total of 50 nations entered players at the 2005 IBF World Championships. The number of competitors is indicated in parentheses.

★ [3] ★ [3] ★ [3] ★ [14] ★ [21] ★ [4] ★ [4] ★ [16] ★ [18] ★ [3] ★ [3] ★ [10] ★ [8] ★ [2] ★ [8] ★ [2] ★ [4]

★ [10] ★ [3] ★ [4] ★ [1] ★ [2] ★ [20] ★ [1] ★ [21] ★ [7] ★ [11] ★ [2] ★ [1] ★ [4] ★ [5] ★ [2] ★ [5] ★ [4]

★ [9] ★ [10] ★ [8] ★ [3] ★ [11] ★ [6] ★ [1] ★ [2] ★ [7] ★ [4] ★ [10] ★ [2] ★ [3] ★ [15] ★ [1] ★ [2]

Results

Men's singles

Main articles: 2005 IBF World Championships - Men's Singles

Women's singles

Main articles: 2005 IBF World Championships - Women's Singles

Men's doubles

Main articles: 2005 IBF World Championships - Men's Doubles

Women's doubles

Main articles: 2005 IBF World Championships - Women's Doubles

# Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen, ''Champions''
# Gao Ling / Huang Sui, ''Runners-up''
# Wei Yili / Zhao Tingting, ''Quarter-final''
# Lee Kyung-won / Lee Hyo-jung, ''Semi-final''
# Zhang Dan / Zhang Yawen, ''Semi-final''
# Saralee Thungthongkam / Sathinee Chankrachangwong, ''Quarter-final''
# Wong Pei Tty / Chin Eei Hui, ''Quarter-final''
# Gail Emms / Donna Kellogg, ''Quarter-final''
# Ella Tripp / Joanne Wright, ''Second round''
# Jiang Yanmei / Li Yujia, ''Third round''
# Tracey Hallam / Natalie Munt, ''Third round''
# Chien Yu-Chin / Cheng Wen-Hsing, ''Third round''
# Helle Nielsen / Pernille Harder, ''Third round''
# Charmaine Reid / Helen Nichol, ''Second round''
# Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota, ''First round''
# Liza Parker / Suzanne Rayappan, ''Third round''

Mixed doubles

Main articles: 2005 IBF World Championships - Mixed Doubles

# Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms, ''Second round''
# Zhang Jun / Gao Ling, ''Quarter-final''
# Chen Qiqiu / Zhao Tingting, ''Quarter-final''
# Nova Widianto / Lilyana Natsir, ''Champions''
# Jens Eriksen / Mette Schjoldager, ''Third round''
# Lee Jae-jin / Lee Hyo-jung, ''Quarter-final''
# Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam, ''Semi-final''
# Robert Blair / Natalie Munt, ''Third round''
# Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl, ''Third round''
# Koo Kien Keat / Wong Pei Tty, ''Third round''
# Xie Zhongbo / Zhang Yawen, ''Runners-up''
# Hendry Kurniawan Saputra / Li Yujia, ''Third round''
# Anthony Clark / Donna Kellogg, ''Third round''
# Frederik Bergstrom / Johanna Persson, ''Quarter-final''
# Daniel Shirley / Sara Runesten-Petersen, ''Semi-final''
# Philippe Bourret / Helen Nichol, ''First round''

Medals table

China had an excellent tournament, winning seven medals in total, including the gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles, as well as four of the five silvers. Indonesia won both the men's singles and mixed doubles. The men's doubles tournament was won by the 13th seeds, Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach, winning the United States's first ever gold at the World Championships.

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		2	4	1	7
2		2	1	1	4
3		1	-	-	1
4		-	-	2	2
5		-	-	1	1
		-	-	1	1
		-	-	1	1
		-	-	1	1
		-	-	1	1
		-	-	1	1
Total		5	5	10	20

External links

★ Official website

★ 2005 IBF World Championships Full Results