Sarwendah Kusumawardhani Sukiran was born on 22 August 1967 and is a retired badminton player from Indonesia.
13 Facts About Sarwendah Kusumawardhani
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani was the women's singles champions at the 1990 World Cup and 1993 SEA Games.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani was rated among the world's leading singles players in the late 1980s and early 1990s, though she was somewhat overshadowed by her younger Indonesian teammate, Susi Susanti.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani's titles included the Dutch Open, the Swiss Open, the Malaysia Open, the World Cup, and the SEA Games.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani came close in badminton's three most prestigious tournaments for individual players.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani was a bronze medalist at the 1989 IBF World Championships and a silver medalist to China's Tang Jiuhong at the tournament's next edition in 1991.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani was runner-up at the venerable All-England Championships in 1991, this time to Susanti.
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At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics won by Susanti, Sarwendah Kusumawardhani narrowly missed reaching the medal rounds after an extremely tight quarterfinal loss to the eventual silver medalist Bang Soo-hyun.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani is married to Hermawan Susanto who was one of Indonesia's and the world's leading men's singles players in the 1990s.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani's elder sister, Ratih Kumaladewi is a former national badminton player.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani started out at PB Tangkas and eventually opened her own academy, Sarwendah Badminton Club, in 2010.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani coached the women's singles squad under the Badminton Association of Indonesia, but resigned in 2011, citing incompatibility with head coach Li Mao.
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Sarwendah Kusumawardhani was rehired in 2013 as the assistant coach for women's singles.