Indian shuttlers are bringing home medals from badminton World The championships have been without fail since 2011 when the women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa jointly won the bronze medal. That effort ended the nation’s nearly three-decade-long wait for a medal from the World Championships, when the legendary Prakash Padukone became the first Indian shuttler to win a medal at the event in 1983. However, ever since Gutta-Ponappa won the women’s doubles. A bronze, India They have won at least one medal in six straight editions of the event, bringing their total to 10.
Out of these 10, five have been won by superstar PV Sindhu, whose record equals one gold, two silvers and as many bronzes. Saina Nehwal (twice) and B Sai Praneeth are the other two medalists.
Let’s take a look at India’s medals in the World Championships so far:
1983 – Prakash Padukone (Bronze)
India’s great shuttler was in excellent form at the 1983 event in Copenhagen, Denmark. They won four straight matches, losing just one game en route to the semi-finals. He faced Indonesia’s Ikuk Sugiarto in the final four stages and won the first game before losing the next two. Sugiarto would go on to win the title. However, Padukone’s access to the semi-finals meant that she had ensured herself at least a bronze, thus becoming the first player from her country to win a medal at the World Championships.
2011 – Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa (Bronze)
The 19th edition of the World Championships was held in London (England). Gutta and Ponnappa led India’s challenge in the women’s doubles event. The unseeded pair advanced to the third round without losing a game, defeating Cheng Wen-hing and Chien Yu-Chin in the second round. They lost the first game in the quarter and entered the last four, winning the next two games 21–10, 21–17. However, they lost to the Chinese fifth seed in the semi-finals, but returned home with bronze – the country’s first medal in the women’s doubles event and the first medal in the marquee event in 28 years.
2013 – PV Sindhu (Bronze)
Sindhu, seeded 10, got a bye in the first round and faced a tough test against Kaori Imabeppu of Japan in the second round, winning three close bouts. She then advanced to the quarter-finals by defeating second seed Wang Yihan in straight games and continued her red-hot form by defeating seventh seed Wang Shixian to ensure at least a bronze medal. She lost to Ratchanok Inthanon in the semi-finals, but created history by becoming India’s first medalist at the championship in the women’s singles category.
2014 – PV Sindhu (Bronze)
Sindhu, seeded 11, was again given a bye in the first round before she began her campaign by defeating Olga Golovanova of Russia in straight games. However, in the third round and quarter-finals, the Indian was drawn into two-three games as he had to come back from a game before overtaking his opponents. Although she lost in the semi-finals to eventual champion Carolina Marin, she won the bronze medal for the second time in a row.
2015 – Saina Nehwal (Silver)
Second seed Saina started her campaign with a 21-13, 21-9 win over Hong Kong’s Cheung Nye in the second round and was given a bye in the first round. After securing another impressive victory to enter the quarter, he faced his first real test against Wang Yihan, whom he defeated in three games. They advanced to the finals, defeating Lindaweni Fanetry 21–17, 21–17, but lost to defending champion Carolina in the title match. However, Saina created history by becoming the first Indian to do so by bagging a silver medal.
2017 – PV Sindhu (Silver)
Bypassing a challenge from Kim Hyo-min in the second round, Sindhu continued her stellar run in the third round with a decent win over Cheung Ngan Yi in three games and then beat Sun Yu 21-14, 21. 9 wins in the last-eight. In blazing form, Sindhu crushed Chen Yufei before putting up her biggest performance of all time in the final of the World Championships, where she lost to Nozomi Okuhara – 19-21, 22-20, 20-22.
2017 – Saina Nehwal (Bronze)
Saina entered the quarter without losing a game and registered a one-sided victory over Sabrina Jacquet and Sung Ji-hyun. Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour gave her a tough fight but the Indian won 21-19, 18-21, 21-15. Hoping for an all-India performance in the final, she took on eventual champion Okuhara, who had defeated the previous edition’s runner-up in three matches. Saina, however, returned home with a bronze – her second medal from the championship.
2018 – PV Sindhu (Silver)
Determined to end her wait for a gold, Sindhu barely sweated it out against Fitriani and Sung Ji-hyun and then took revenge on Okuhara in the quarter with a straight game win. In the semi-finals, after beating the first game easily 21-16, Sindhu faced a much better challenge from Akane Yamaguchi, who fought hard in the second game but eventually won the Indian 24-22. In the final, Sindhu and Carolina took on the Spanish shuttler who created history by becoming the first woman shuttler to win three world titles. However, Sindhu scripted her victory history by becoming the first Indian to win two silver medals in the championship.
2019 – B Sai Praneeth (Bronze)
16th seed Praneeth was in red-hot form at the 2019 Championships in Basel. He began his campaign with a regular victory over Canada’s Jason Anthony Ho-shu and defeated Lee Dong-kyun 21-16, 21-15 in the second round. He then defeated sixth seed Anthony Ginting 21–19, 21–13 to reach the quarter-finals, where he put on another stellar performance to beat fourth seed Jonathan Christie 24–22, 21–14. He then faced Japan’s Kento Momota in the semi-finals, where he finished as the second best player. However, his last-four appearance meant that Praneeth became India’s second men’s singles medalist in the event, ending a 36-year wait.
2019 – PV Sindhu (Gold)
Two bronze. two silver. Sindhu has had enough. She was determined to end her wait for a yellow metal. And the Badminton Queen produced a memorable show in style in Basel. During the championship, she lost just one game out of five matches against Tai Tzu-ying in the quarterfinals as she became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the Badminton World Championships. In the title clash, she defeated Nozomi Okuhara in a one-sided clash that ended 21-7, 21-7 in India’s favour.
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