How Much Have Olympic Medals in Badminton Contributed to Indonesia?

Badminton has consistently contributed Olympic medals for Indonesia, except at the 2012 London Olympics. These medals have included not only silver and bronze, but also gold.

For example, two gold medals were won by men's singles player Alan Budi Kusuma and women's singles player Susi Susanti at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Indonesia also won two silver and one bronze medal that same year.

Men's doubles contributed one gold medal each at two Olympic Games: Rexy Mainaky/Ricky Subagja at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Candra Wijaya/Tony Gunawan at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Badminton also secured three medals each at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. These included gold medals from men's singles player Taufik Hidayat (2004) and men's doubles pair Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan (2008).

Meanwhile, Indonesia won only one gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, from the mixed doubles pair Liliyana Natsir/Tontowi Ahmad.

Indonesia is currently striving for badminton medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Two Indonesian representatives remain: Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in men's singles and Greysia Polii/Apriyani Rahayu in women's doubles.