ALL ABOUT INDONESIA - Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti (born 11 February 1971 in Tasikmalaya, West Java 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 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, 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.
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Medal record Susi Susanti
Women's badminton
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Representing Indonesia
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Olympic Games
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G
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1992 Barcelona
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Singles
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B
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1996 Atlanta
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Singles
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World Championships
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G
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1993 Birmingham
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Singles
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B
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1991 Copenhagen
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Singles
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B
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1995 Lausanne
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Singles
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Asian Games
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S
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1990 Beijing
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Team
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S
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1994 Hiroshima
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Team
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B
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1990 Beijing
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Singles
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B
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1994 Hiroshima
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Singles
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Badminton World Cup
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G
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1989 Guangzhou
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Singles
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G
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1993 New Delhi
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Singles
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G
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1994 Ho Chi Minh
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Singles
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G
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1996 Jakarta
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Singles
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G
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1997 Yogyakarta
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Singles
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Uber Cup
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G
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1994 Jakarta
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Team
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G
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1996 Hong Kong
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Team
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S
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1998 Hong Kong
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Team
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Sudirman Cup
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G
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1989 Jakarta
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Team
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S
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1991 Copenhagen
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Team
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S
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1993 Birmingham
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Team
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S
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1995 Lausanne
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Team
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