India national badminton team

India National Badminton team represents India in international team badminton and is governed by the Badminton Association of India. The Indian team competed in the 2011 Sudirman Cup and shared the fifth rank with three other teams, what is up to now the best performance in the Sudirman Cup. It is currently ranked 9th in the World Teams Ranking but has been as high as 7th. It has won 19 medals at the Commonwealth Games and 8 medals at the Asian Games along with 4 medals at the BWF World Championships and 1 medal at the Summer Olympics.

Participation and Achievements

Thomas Cup

• 1952 – First round inter-zone (3rd / 4th)
• 1955 – Final round inter-zone (3rd)
• 1958 – Intra-zone
• 1961 – Intra-zone
• 1964 – Intra-zone
• 1967 – Intra-zone
• 1970 – Intra-zone
• 1973 – First round inter-zone (5th)
• 1976 – Intra-zone
• 1979 – Second round inter-zone (3rd / 4th)
• 1982 – Intra-zone
• 1984 – Qualification round
• 1988 – 7th / 8th
• 2000 – 7th / 8th
• 2006 – Quarter-finalist
• 2010 – Quarter-finalist
• 2014 – Group stage
• 2016 – Group stage

Uber Cup

• 1957 – First round inter-zone (3rd)
• 1960 – First round inter-zone (4th / 5th)
• 1969 – Intra-zone
• 1972 – Intra-zone
• 1975 – Intra-zone
• 2010 – Quarter-finalist
• 2014 – Semi-finalist
• 2016 – Semi-finalist

Sudirman Cup

• 1991 – 19th
• 1993 – 18th
• 1995 – 20th
• 1997 – 19th
• 1999 – 16th
• 2001 – 17th
• 2003 – 16th
• 2005 – 18th
• 2007 – 18th
• 2009 – 17th
• 2011 – 5th
• 2013 – 9th
• 2015 – 9th

Current players

Men

• Parupalli Kashyap
• Srikanth Kidambi
• Prannoy Kumar
• R. M. V. Gurusaidutt
• B. Sai Praneeth
• Sourabh Verma
• Akshay Dewalkar
• Ajay Jayaram
• Arun Vishnu
• Tarun Kona

Women

• Saina Nehwal
• Jwala Gutta
• P. V. Sindhu
• Ashwini Ponnappa
• Aparna Balan
• P. C. Thulasi
• Sikki Reddy Nelakurthi
• Ruthvika Shivani Gadde

Former players

Men

• Prakash Padukone
• Pullela Gopichand

Women

• Aparna Popat

External links

• Indian Badminton team wins gold
• Indian Badminton
• Badminton association of India (official site)