Badminton at the 1963 GANEFO

Badminton was contested at the 1963 GANEFO from 14 to 19 November 1963. The events were held at the Istora Senayan Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[1][2] The events held were men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles as well as the men's and women's team competition.

Eight national teams took part in the men's team competitions with hosts Indonesia seeded first and China seeded second.^[3] Only two teams competed in the women's team event. Therefore, no bronze medal was awarded for the women's team event.^[4] Indonesia's top players, Tan Joe Hok and Ferry Sonneville did not take part in the competition.^[5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Tang Xianhu  China	Hou Jiachang  China	Ang Tjin Siang  Indonesia
Women's singles	Minarni  Indonesia	Liang Xiaomu  China	Chen Yuniang  China
Men's doubles	Indonesia Tan King Gwan Abdul Patah Unang	China Lin Jiancheng Wu Junsheng	China Tang Xianhu Zhang Zhucheng
Women's doubles	Indonesia Retno Koestijah Minarni	China Chen Yuniang Liang Xiaomu	China Chen Jiayan Chen Liquan
Men's team	Indonesia Johnny Tjoa Ting Oen Hie Tan King Gwan Abdul Patah Unang Nana Soetisna Ang Tjin Siang	China Lin Jiancheng Hou Jiachang Tang Xianhu Wu Junsheng Zhang Zhucheng	Pakistan Nazir Rajput Akram Baig Saleem Butt
Women's team	China Chen Yuniang Liang Xiaomu Chen Jiayan Lin Jianying Chen Liquan	Indonesia Minarni Retno Koestijah Megah Idawati Corry Kawilarang Oei Lin Nio Happy Herowati	Not awarded

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Indonesia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia (INA)*	4	1	1	6
2	China (CHN)	2	5	3	10
3	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		6	6	5	17

Team results

Men's team

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	1	Indonesia	5
		Japan	0
						1	Indonesia	5
							Ceylon	0
		Ceylon	3
	4	Mexico	2
											1	Indonesia	3
											2	China	2
	3	Pakistan	4
		Laos	1
						3	Pakistan	0			Third place
						2	China	5
		Philippines	0									Ceylon	0
	2	China	5								3	Pakistan	5

Semi-finals

Indonesia 5	Istora Senayan 15 November 1963 [6]		Ceylon 0
1 2 3 1 Johnny Tjoa L. R. Ariyananda 15 3 15 3     2 Ting Oen Hie Gerry Chandrasena 15 3 15 6     3 Tan King Gwan / Abdul Patah Unang Sam Chandrasena / V. Sriskandarajah 15 6 15 6     4 Ting Oen Hie L. R. Ariyananda 15 2 15 0     5 Johnny Tjoa Gerry Chandrasena       w/o

China 5	Istora Senayan 15 November 1963 [7]		Pakistan 0
1 2 3 1 Tang Xianhu Nazir Rajput 15 6 15 4     2 Zhang Zhucheng Akram Baig 15 8 15 4     3 Lin Jiancheng / Wu Junsheng Saleem Butt / Nazir Rajput 15 2 15 2     4 Zhang Zhucheng Nazir Rajput 15 6 15 8     5 Tang Xianhu Akram Baig 15 2 15 2

3rd place

Pakistan 5	Istora Senayan 16 November 1963 [8]		Ceylon 0
1 2 3 1 Nazir Rajput L. R. Ariyananda 15 10 15 5     2 Akram Baig Gerry Chandrasena 15 3 15 7     3 Saleem Butt / Nazir Rajput Sam Chandrasena / V. Sriskandarajah 15 11 15 7     4 Akram Baig L. R. Ariyananda 15 8 15 6     5 Nazir Rajput Gerry Chandrasena 15 4 15 3

Final

Indonesia 3	Istora Senayan 16 November 1963 [9]		China 2
1 2 3 1 Nana Soetisna Hou Jiachang 4 15 6 15     2 Johnny Tjoa Tang Xianhu 16 17 15 13 15 7   3 Tan King Gwan / Abdul Patah Unang Lin Jiancheng / Wu Junsheng 15 4 15 6     4 Nana Soetisna Tang Xianhu 15 11 15 12     5 Johnny Tjoa Hou Jiachang         w/o

Women's team

Indonesia vs China

Indonesia 1	Istora Senayan 15 November 1963 [10][11]		China 3
1 2 3 1 Corry Kawilarang Liang Xiaomu 11 3 3 11 9 12   2 Megah Idawati Chen Yuniang 2 11 12 10 7 11   3 Retno Koestijah / Minarni Chen Yuniang / Liang Xiaomu 15 12 15 10     4 Corry Kawilarang Chen Yuniang 3 11 3 11     5 Megah Idawati Liang Xiaomu       not played

Participating nations

A total of nine countries took part in badminton at the 1963 GANEFO.^[12][13]

References