Badminton in India

Indian National Badminton Team at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Padukone and Gopichand both won the All England Open in 1980 and 2001 respectively, making them the only Indians to ever win the prestigious title. Nehwal won the bronze medal in the individual women's competition at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the first for the country in badminton. Sindhu won the second and the third Olympic medal in badminton for India, winning a silver and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics respectively. India has won medals at the BWF World Championships as well, with Padukone winning in 1982. The doubles pairing of Gutta and Ponnappa became the first women to win a medal when they won the bronze in 2011.[8] Sindhu won consecutive bronze medals at 2013 and 2014 editions. Nehwal won a silver at 2015 Championships.[9] Next, Sindhu won silver at 2017 and 2018 consecutive editions. Nehwal won bronze in 2017. Sindhu won Gold at 2019 BWF World Championships and become First Indian to finish top of the podium. B. Sai Praneeth become medal winner in men's singles after 36 years. He clinched bronze in 2019 edition so India first time win medals in two different categories in same BWF Badminton championship. India never returned empty handed in world championship since 2011. Nehwal is the only gold medalist for India in BWF World Junior Championships, won in 2008, where as Sindhu and Lakshya Sen are the only gold medalists in Badminton Asia Junior Championships in their respective category for the country, won in 2012 and 2018.

• Prakash Padukone
• Dinesh Khanna
• Syed Modi
• Pullela Gopichand
• Chetan Anand
• Aparna Popat
• Nikhil Kanetkar
• U. Vimal Kumar
• Sanave Thomas
• P. V. V. Lakshmi

• Badminton Association of India
• India national badminton team
• Indian National Badminton Championships