2005 IBF World Championships

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The 2005 IBF World Championships (14th World Badminton Championships) was held in Anaheim, southern California, United States, from August 15 to August 21, 2005.

2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's singles over China's Lin Dan, while Peter Gade of Denmark and Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia received bronze medals.

In the women's singles category, Xie Xingfang won the gold medal beating compatriot 2004 Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ning. Germany's Xu Huaiwen and Chinese Taipei's Cheng Shao-chieh won bronze medals. Cheng Shao-chieh also created some surprise results in the tournament.

Women's doubles was almost an all-China show. 2004 Olympic gold medalists Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen repeated their 2004 Olympic performance with victory over silver medalists Gao Ling/Huang Sui.

In the mixed doubles, number 1 seeds Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms of England backed out before commencement of the tournament due to an injury to Robertson. This paved the way for several pairs to contest the medals. Indonesia's Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir secured the gold over China's up and coming Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen. Zhang Yawen also become the only double medalist in this games winning the silver in mixed doubles and bronze in the women's doubles.

The biggest surprise in the tournament came in men's doubles. Though former Indonesian star Tony Gunawan had long been recognized as one of the premier men's doubles players in the game, he and his American partner Howard Bach were only the 13th seeded team in the competition. However, from the round of 16 through the semifinal they routinely defeated higher seeded pairs to reach the final. There, before a surprisingly large "hometown crowd", they overcame the second seeded Indonesian team of Sigit Budiarto and Candra Wijaya in three close games to become the first American winners of any event since the IBF first held an official World Championships in 1977.

Host city selection

Anaheim (United States) and Aarhus[1] (Denmark) were the candidates for the host of the championships. Singapore withdrew its bid before the council meeting which later awarded the event to Anaheim.[2]

Venue

The championships were held at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, now known as Honda Center.

Medalists

China had an excellent tournament, winning seven medals in total, including the gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles, as well as four of the five silvers. Indonesia won both the men's singles and mixed doubles. The men's doubles tournament was won by the 13th seeds, Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach, winning the United States's first ever gold at the World Championships.

Medal table

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Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Template:Flagicon Taufik Hidayat Template:Flagicon Lin Dan Template:Flagicon Peter Gade
Template:Flagicon Lee Chong Wei
Women's Singles Template:Flagicon Xie Xingfang Template:Flagicon Zhang Ning Template:Flagicon Xu Huaiwen
Template:Flagicon Cheng Shao-chieh
Men's Doubles Template:Flagicon Howard Bach
Template:Flagicon Tony Gunawan 		Template:Flagicon Sigit Budiarto
Template:Flagicon Candra Wijaya 		Template:Flagicon Luluk Hadiyanto
Template:Flagicon Alvent Yulianto
Template:Flagicon Chan Chong Ming
Template:Flagicon Koo Kien Keat
Women's Doubles Template:Flagicon Yang Wei
Template:Flagicon Zhang Jiewen 		Template:Flagicon Gao Ling
Template:Flagicon Huang Sui 		Template:Flagicon Zhang Dan
Template:Flagicon Zhang Yawen
Template:Flagicon Lee Hyo-jung
Template:Flagicon Lee Kyung-won
Mixed Doubles Template:Flagicon Nova Widianto
Template:Flagicon Liliyana Natsir 		Template:Flagicon Xie Zhongbo
Template:Flagicon Zhang Yawen 		Template:Flagicon Daniel Shirley
Template:Flagicon Sara Runesten-Petersen
Template:Flagicon Sudket Prapakamol
Template:Flagicon Saralee Thungthongkam

Participating nations

A total of 50 nations entered players at the 2005 IBF World Championships. The number of competitors is indicated in parentheses.

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