Lin Dan from China has won the All England Badminton title 2016 in the men’s singles category. In the final match played at Birmingham, England he defeated Chinese teammate Tian Houwei by 21-9, 21-10 score. It was his overall 6th All England badminton title and earlier he had won it in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Other category winners Women’s singles category:
Nozomi Okuhara (Japan) won the title by defeating Wang Shixian (China) by 21-11, 16-21 and 21-19 score. Men’s Doubles category: Russian pair Vladimir Ivanov & Ivan Sozonov won the title by defeating Japanese pair Hiroyuki Endo & Kenichi Hayakawa by 21-23, 21-18, 21-16 score.
Women’s Doubles category: Japanese pair Misaki Matsutomo & Ayaka Takahashi won the title by defeating Chinese pair Tang Yuanting & Yu Yang by 21-10 and 21-12 score.
Mixed Doubles category: Indonesian pair Praveen Jordan & Debby Susanto won the title by defeating Denmark pair Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen by 21-12 and 21-17 score.
About All England Open Badminton Championships:
- All England Open Badminton Championships is one of the oldest as well as the prestigious badminton tournaments of the world.
- The 1st tournament was held in 1898 in Guildford, since then it is played annually. Initially the championship was started in only 3 categories- Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles & Mixed Doubles.
- But later in 1900 individual Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles titles were added.
- Indian badminton legends Prakash Padukone (in 1980) and P Gopichand (in 2001) have won this title in Men’s Singles category.
Lin Dan wins All England Badminton title 2016
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