2017 BWF World Senior Championships
# 2017 BWF World Senior Championships

The 2017 BWF World Senior Championships is a badminton tournament which was held from 11 to 17 September at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Kochi, India.

## Players

663 players from 39 countries participated this edition of championships.

* Australia (3)
* Austria (6)
* Bahrain (1)
* Bangladesh (8)
* Belgium (3)
* Brunei (3)
* Canada (5)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Croatia (1)
* Czech Republic (3)
* Denmark (29)
* England (68)
* Finland (1)
* France (39)
* Germany (39)
* Greece (1)
* Hong Kong (3)
* Hungary (4)
* India (178) (H)
* Indonesia (15)
* Ireland (3)
* Israel (1)
* Japan (48)
* Malaysia (23)
* Nepal (1)
* Norway (9)
* Poland (5)
* Russia (32)
* Scotland (3)
* Singapore (2)
* Slovenia (1)
* South Africa (2)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (3)
* Sri Lanka (24)
* Sweden (33)
* Switzerland (11)
* Thailand (43)
* Uzbekistan (6)

## Medal summary

### Medal table

* Host nation (India)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | England | 10.5 | 6.5 | 13.5 | 30.5 |
| 2 | Thailand | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Russia | 5 | 1.5 | 2 | 8.5 |
| 4 | Japan | 4 | 6 | 16 | 26 |
| 5 | Germany | 4 | 3.5 | 5 | 12.5 |
| 6 | Denmark | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 7.5 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | India* | 1 | 4 | 16 | 21 |
| 9 | Scotland | 1 | 2.5 | 0 | 3.5 |
| 10 | Canada | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 11 | Hungary | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 13 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 14 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Malaysia | 0.5 | 1 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 16 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 | Ireland | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 18 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 19 | Sweden | 0 | 0.5 | 5 | 5.5 |
| 20 | Austria | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 21 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 22 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Totals (26 entries) | Totals (26 entries) | 40 | 40 | 80 | 160 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 35+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Stanislav Pukhov | Naruenart Chuaymak | Felix Hoffmann |
| Men's singles | Stanislav Pukhov | Naruenart Chuaymak | Nikhil Kanetkar |
| Women's singles | Olga Arkhangelskaya | Maria Koloskova | Rie Matsumoto |
| Women's singles | Olga Arkhangelskaya | Maria Koloskova | Noriko Sanada |
| Men's doubles | Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas | J. B. S. Vidyadhar Valiyaveetil Diju | Naruenart Chuaymak Thitipong Lapoe |
| Men's doubles | Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas | J. B. S. Vidyadhar Valiyaveetil Diju | Hosemari Fujimoto Matsumoto Masayuki |
| Women's doubles | Olga Arkhangelskaya Maria Koloskova | Rie Matsumoto Noriko Sanada | Mhairi Armstrong Suzanne Brewer |
| Women's doubles | Olga Arkhangelskaya Maria Koloskova | Rie Matsumoto Noriko Sanada | Miriam Mantell Claudia Vogelgsang |
| Mixed doubles | Stanislav Pukhov Maria Koloskova | Felix Hoffmann Claudia Vogelgsang | Abhinand K. Shetty K. Neelima Choudhary |
| Mixed doubles | Stanislav Pukhov Maria Koloskova | Felix Hoffmann Claudia Vogelgsang | Morten Eilby Rasmussen Lynn Swan |
| 40+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Hosemari Fujimoto | K. A. Aneesh | Joy T. Antony |
| Men's singles | Hosemari Fujimoto | K. A. Aneesh | C. M. Shashidhar |
| Women's singles | Claudia Vogelgsang | Chandrika de Silva | Yana Katerinich |
| Women's singles | Claudia Vogelgsang | Chandrika de Silva | Rebecca Pantaney |
| Men's doubles | Phongthep Imkaew Worapoj Somchariya | Kah Kok Cheong Lum Chee Meng | Jaseel P. Ismail Jaison Xavier |
| Men's doubles | Phongthep Imkaew Worapoj Somchariya | Kah Kok Cheong Lum Chee Meng | Deepak Amarnath Ajit Wijetilekk |
| Women's doubles | Louise Culyer Dorte Steenberg | Olga Bryant Olga Kuznetsova | Supriya Devgun Nancy Tandon |
| Women's doubles | Louise Culyer Dorte Steenberg | Olga Bryant Olga Kuznetsova | Rebecca Pantaney Lynne Swan |
| Mixed doubles | Carsten Loesch Dorte Steenberg | Carl Jennings Joanne Muggeridge | Hosemari Fujimoto Ayumi Takakura |
| Mixed doubles | Carsten Loesch Dorte Steenberg | Carl Jennings Joanne Muggeridge | Vadim Nazarov Olga Kuznetsova |
| 45+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Wu Chang-jun | Carsten Loesch | Ulf Svensson |
| Men's singles | Wu Chang-jun | Carsten Loesch | Jaison Xavier |
| Women's singles | Gondáné Fórián Csilla | Dorota Grzejdak | Caroline Hale |
| Women's singles | Gondáné Fórián Csilla | Dorota Grzejdak | Marika Wippich |
| Men's doubles | Chatchai Boonmee Wittaya Panomchai | Srikant Bakshi Navdeep Singh | Teerachai Jaruwat Yodchay Laothoedpong |
| Men's doubles | Chatchai Boonmee Wittaya Panomchai | Srikant Bakshi Navdeep Singh | Stefan Edvardsson Ulf Svensson |
| Women's doubles | Tracey Middleton Joanne Muggeridge | Tanja Eberl Marika Wippich | Hanne Bertelsen Caroline Hale |
| Women's doubles | Tracey Middleton Joanne Muggeridge | Tanja Eberl Marika Wippich | Sangeeta Rajgopalan Poonam Tatwawadi |
| Mixed doubles | Nick Ponting Julie Bradbury | Patrik Bjorkler Gondáné Fórián Csilla | Teerachai Jaruwat Puangthip Kaosamaang |
| Mixed doubles | Nick Ponting Julie Bradbury | Patrik Bjorkler Gondáné Fórián Csilla | Stefan Edvardsson Hanne Bertelsen |
| 50+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Karoon Kasayapanan | Narong Vanichitsarakul | Edi Ismanto |
| Men's singles | Karoon Kasayapanan | Narong Vanichitsarakul | Murli Subramaniam |
| Women's singles | Zhou Xin | Tanja Eberi | Betty Blair |
| Women's singles | Zhou Xin | Tanja Eberi | Ye Wang |
| Men's doubles | Bobby Ertanto Ting Wei Ping | Graham Henderson Mark Topping | Bhushan Akut George Thomas |
| Men's doubles | Bobby Ertanto Ting Wei Ping | Graham Henderson Mark Topping | Mongokol Gumlaitong Karoon Kasayapanan |
| Women's doubles | Betty Blair Debora Miller | Ye Wang Zhou Xin | Kavita Dixit Suzanne Venglet |
| Women's doubles | Betty Blair Debora Miller | Ye Wang Zhou Xin | Grace Kakiay Berit Thyness |
| Mixed doubles | Alexander Tandun Rosiana Tendean | Mark Topping Debora Miller | Erik Soderberg Anki Gunners |
| Mixed doubles | Alexander Tandun Rosiana Tendean | Mark Topping Debora Miller | Magnus Nytell Grace Kakiay |
| 55+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Pornroj Banditpisut | Basant Kumar Soni | Harjit Singh |
| Men's singles | Pornroj Banditpisut | Basant Kumar Soni | Loke Poh Wong |
| Women's singles | Heidi Bender | Sue Sheen | Manjusha Sudhir Sahasrabudhe |
| Women's singles | Heidi Bender | Sue Sheen | Kuniko Yamamoto |
| Men's doubles | Pornroj Banditpisut Nattapol Sanlekanun | Eric Plane Roger Taylor | Bovornovadep Devakula Chongsak Suvanich |
| Men's doubles | Pornroj Banditpisut Nattapol Sanlekanun | Eric Plane Roger Taylor | Per Juul Bengt Meliquist |
| Women's doubles | Birte Bach Steffensen Heidi Bender | Miyoko Sato Kuniko Yamamoto | Liudmila Postnova Irina Shalmanova |
| Women's doubles | Birte Bach Steffensen Heidi Bender | Miyoko Sato Kuniko Yamamoto | Sue Sheen Susan C. Tooke |
| Mixed doubles | Bobby Ertanto Heidi Bender | Bovornovadep Devakula Juthatop Banjongsilp | Noriaki Matsunari Miyoko Sato |
| Mixed doubles | Bobby Ertanto Heidi Bender | Bovornovadep Devakula Juthatop Banjongsilp | Bengt Meliquist Sue Sheen |
| 60+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Dan Travers | Arnold Dendeng | Chan Wan Seong |
| Men's singles | Dan Travers | Arnold Dendeng | Ong Then Lin |
| Women's singles | Christine M. Crossley | Christine Black | Sugako Morita |
| Women's singles | Christine M. Crossley | Christine Black | Sayoko Takebayashi |
| Men's doubles | Sergey Bushuev Vladimir Koloskov | Tariq Farooq Karsten Meier | Tadao Aoyama Toshio Kawaguchi |
| Men's doubles | Sergey Bushuev Vladimir Koloskov | Tariq Farooq Karsten Meier | John Kindred Ian M. Purton |
| Women's doubles | Sugako Morita Sayoko Takebayashi | Christine Black Christine M. Crossley | Anna Bowskill Sylvia Penn |
| Women's doubles | Sugako Morita Sayoko Takebayashi | Christine Black Christine M. Crossley | Siew Har Hong Marcia Jackson |
| Mixed doubles | Ian M. Purton Christine M. Crossley | Dan Travers Christine Black | Toshio Kawaguchi Sayoko Takebayashi |
| Mixed doubles | Ian M. Purton Christine M. Crossley | Dan Travers Christine Black | Robin Wells Janet B. Williams |
| 65+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Johan Croukamp | Henry Paynter | Hubert Miranda |
| Men's singles | Johan Croukamp | Henry Paynter | Carl-Johan Nybergh |
| Women's singles | Betty Bartlett | Siew Har Hong | Yuriko Okemoto |
| Women's singles | Betty Bartlett | Siew Har Hong | Chizuko Oketani |
| Men's doubles | Peter Emptage Graham Holt | Somrak Arnamwat Chaiwat Hanthanom | Sushil Kumar Patet Surendra Singh Pundir |
| Men's doubles | Peter Emptage Graham Holt | Somrak Arnamwat Chaiwat Hanthanom | Johan Croukamp Carl-Johan Nybergh |
| Women's doubles | Betty Bartlett Eileen M. Carley | Haruko Asakoshi Yasuko Kataito | Sumiko Kaneko Yuriko Okemoto |
| Women's doubles | Betty Bartlett Eileen M. Carley | Haruko Asakoshi Yasuko Kataito | Fumiko Sakuma Masai Suzuki |
| Mixed doubles | Henry Paynter Siew Har Hong | Christian Hansen Gitte Attle Rasmussen | Peter Emptage Betty Bartlett |
| Mixed doubles | Henry Paynter Siew Har Hong | Christian Hansen Gitte Attle Rasmussen | Frirs Mainaky Rohini Jaywardena |
| 70+ (details) ||||
| Men's singles | Jim Garrett | Yoshio Terasaki | Foo Lai Loon |
| Men's singles | Jim Garrett | Yoshio Terasaki | Paweł Gasz |
| Women's singles | Elvira Richter | Sumiko Kaneko | Viviane Bonnay |
| Women's singles | Elvira Richter | Sumiko Kaneko | Satoko Nakamura |
| Men's doubles | Akira Hirota Shinjiro Matsuda | Jim Garrett Ray Sharp | Masaki Furuhashi Yoshio Terasaki |
| Men's doubles | Akira Hirota Shinjiro Matsuda | Jim Garrett Ray Sharp | Ching Kon Kong Loo Ah Hooi |
| Women's doubles | Sumiko Ishikawa Satoko Nakamura | Beryl Goodall Mary Jenner | Susan Awcock Victoria Betts |
| Women's doubles | Sumiko Ishikawa Satoko Nakamura | Beryl Goodall Mary Jenner | Elvira Richter Elisabeth Schonfeld |
| Mixed doubles | Jim Garrett Susan Awcock | Masaki Furuhashi Sumiko Kaneko | Roger Baldwin Victoria Betts |
| Mixed doubles | Jim Garrett Susan Awcock | Masaki Furuhashi Sumiko Kaneko | Knud Danielsen Margrethe Danielsen |

### Players who won multiple medals

| Rank | Player | | | | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Heidi Bender | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Christine M Crossley | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Jim Garrett | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Maria Koloskova | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Betty Bartlett | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Dorte Steenberg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Bobby Ertanto | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Olga Arkhangelskaya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Stanislav Pukhov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Pornroj Banditpisut | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Siew Har Hong | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Claudia Vogelgsang | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Henry Paynter | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Carsten Loesch | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Debora Miller | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Joanne Muggeridge | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Zhou Xin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Gondáné Fórián Csilla | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Dan Travers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Sayoko Takebayashi | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 22 | Betty Blair | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Ian M Purton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Peter Emptage | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Susan Awcock | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Elvira Richter | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Satoko Nakamura | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Sugako Morita | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Johan Croukamp | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Karoon Kasayapanan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 31 | Christine Black | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 32 | Sumiko Kaneko | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 33 | Tanja Eberl | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 | Mark Topping | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 35 | Sue Sheen | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 35 | Hosemari Fujimoto | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 37 | Felix Hoffmann | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Marika Wippich | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Ye Wang | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Kuniko Yamamoto | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Masaki Furuhashi | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Miyoko Sato | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Noriko Sanada | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Rie Matsumoto | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Yoshio Terasaki | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Olga Kuznetsova | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Bovornovadep Devakula | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Naruenart Chuaymak | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 49 | Hanne Bertelsen | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Caroline Hale | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Rebecca Pantaney | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Victoria Betts | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Carl-Johan Nybergh | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Jaison Xavier | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Toshio Kawaguchi | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Yuriko Okemoto | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Grace Kakiay | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Bengt Meliquist | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Stefan Edvardsson | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Ulf Svensson | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | Teerachai Jaruwat | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
