Badminton at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
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Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
2005 Southeast Asian Games
The 23rd Southeast Asian Games were held in the Philippines from November 27 to December 5 in 2005. The games were participated by the eleven nations of Southeast Asia. This was the first time that the opening and closing ceremonies were held in a large open field, despite the fact that Manila...

 was held at the PhilSports Arena
PhilSports Arena
The Philippine Institute of Sports Arena or PhilSports Arena is an indoor sporting arena located inside the PhilSports Complex in Pasig, Philippines. It was formerly known as the University of Life Training and Recreational Arena or the ULTRA. The arena and its surrounding sports complex are...

 (formerly ULTRA Arena) at the Philippine Sports Commission Complex in Pasig City
Pasig City
The City of Pasig is one of the city municipalities of Metro Manila in the Philippines and was the former capital of the province of Rizal prior to the formation of this grouping of cities designated as the National Capital Region...

, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. Participants competed for 5 gold medals in the Individual Events and 2 gold medals in the Team Events.

Medal winners

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles: Sony Dwi Kuncoro 
Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso is a male badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:When he was young, he joined the Tangkas Jakarta badminton club before joining the Indonesian National team PBSI. In 2005 he won the Robot HCMC Vietnam Satellite and the silver medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games...

 
Lee Chong Wei
Lee Chong Wei
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam. Lee won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games...

 

Muhd Hafiz Hashim 
Women's Singles: Adriyanti Firdasari
Adriyanti Firdasari
Adrianti Firdasari is a female badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:In 2005 she won the women's singles at the New Zealand Open....

 
Wong Mew Choo 
Li Li
Li Li (badminton player)
Li Li is the top-ranked female badminton player in Singapore. She was born in China and moved to Singapore in 1997.Li won the 2002 Commonwealth Games women's singles gold medal by beating favourite Tracey Hallam of England in four sets, causing a major upset for the home team.Li also played at the...

 

Salakjit Ponsana 
( Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

)
Men's Doubles:
Markis Kido
Markis Kido
Markis Kido is a male badminton player from Indonesia, one of the world's leading men's doubles specialists. He won the men's doubles Olympic gold medal in 2008 with Hendra Setiawan.- Career :...


Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan is a male badminton player from Indonesia and one of the world's leading doubles players.-Career:...


Luluk Hadiyanto
Luluk Hadiyanto
Luluk Hadiyanto is a male badminton player from Indonesia, specializing in men's doubles.-Career:In partnership with fellow countryman Alvent Yulianto, Hadiyanto won four top tier international men's doubles titles in 2004; the Thailand, Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia Opens...

 
Alvent Yulianto Chandra

Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook is a male badminton player from Malaysia, who competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Lee Wan Wah. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pramote Teerawiwatana and Tesana Panvisvas of Thailand in the second...

 
Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann is a professional Malaysian badminton player.He currently resides in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.-Career:Wong Choong Hann's career began with the 1991 Malaysia Open.The first tournament he won was the 1997 Dutch Open...

 

Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming is a male badminton doubles player from Malaysia.-Career:Chan Chong Ming competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics with his then partner, Chew Choon Eng...

 
Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat is a professional badminton player from Malaysia. Besides being a men's doubles player, he also represents Malaysia in the mixed doubles event. He started his career at seventeen years of age and has won the Asian Junior title. He played in the Thomas Cup 2004 with Chan Chong Ming....

Women's Doubles:
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty is a female badminton player from Malaysia.Wong competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chin Eei Hui...


Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui is a female badminton player from Malaysia in the women's doubles event.-Career:Eei Hui competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Wong Pei Tty...


Jo Novita
Jo Novita
Jo Novita is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Novita competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Lita Nurlita. They had a bye in the first round and were defeated by Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China in the round of 16...

 
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii is a female badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:In 2007 Polii won women's doubles at the Indonesian National Championships with Jo Novita. They were women's doubles silver medalists at both the 2005 and 2007 Southeast Asian Games...


Jiang Yanmei
Jiang Yanmei
Jiang Yanmei is a Singapore badminton player.Jiang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Yao Jie of the Netherlands in the round of 32.-References:***...

 
Li Yujia
Li Yujia
Li Yujia is Singapore's national badminton player.Born in Hubei on 18 January 1983, she moved to Singapore at the age of 18 and is now a Singapore citizen....

 

Saralee Thungthongkam
Saralee Thungthongkam
Saralee Thungthongkam is a female badminton player from Thailand.Thungthongkam competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Sathinee Chankrachangwong. They defeated Denyse Julien and Anna Rice of Canada in the first round and Chikako Nakayama and Keiko...

 
Satinee Jankrajangwong
Mixed Doubles:
Nova Widianto
Nova Widianto
Nova Widianto is a male badminton player from Indonesia.- Career :Nova Widianto is one of the greatest doubles player in Indonesia National Team. Even though his best career come from the mixed doubles, but he also played well in men doubles. Widianto has specialized in mixed doubles...


Lilyana Natsir
Lilyana Natsir
Lilyana Natsir is a female badminton player from Indonesia who specializes in doubles. She is listed as one of the best mixed doubles player in the world. In Indonesia, she is often considered as the queen of mixed doubles sector thanks to her achievements with her two different pairs...


Anggun Nugroho
Anggun Nugroho
-Career:Nugroho competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Eny Widiowati. They defeated Nikolai Zuyev and Marina Yakusheva of Russia in the first round but lost to Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China in the round of 16....

 
Yunita Tetty

Hendry Kurniawan Saputra 
Li Yujia
Li Yujia
Li Yujia is Singapore's national badminton player.Born in Hubei on 18 January 1983, she moved to Singapore at the age of 18 and is now a Singapore citizen....

 

Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat is a professional badminton player from Malaysia. Besides being a men's doubles player, he also represents Malaysia in the mixed doubles event. He started his career at seventeen years of age and has won the Asian Junior title. He played in the Thomas Cup 2004 with Chan Chong Ming....

 
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty is a female badminton player from Malaysia.Wong competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chin Eei Hui...

Men's Team:
Women's Team:

Badminton medal table by country

(Host nation in bold.)
1. align=left |4 5 1 10
2. align=left |2 1 6 9
3. align=left |1 0 3 4
4. align=left |0 1 3 4
5. align=left |0 0 1 1

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