The 1980 Badminton World Cup was the second edition of an international tournament Badminton World Cup. The event was held in Kyoto, Japan in the month of January.^[1] Competitions for mixed doubles were not conducted.^[2] Indonesia won men's singles and men's doubles events while Japan won women's doubles and Denmark won women's singles event.^[3]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Liem Swie King	Masao Tsuchida	Prakash Padukone
			Flemming Delfs
Women's singles	Lene Køppen	Hiroe Yuki	Yoshiko Yonekura
			Kirsten Larsen
Men's doubles	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Flemming Delfs Steen Skovgaard	Mikio Ozaki Nobutake Ikeda
			Yoshitaka Iino Masao Tsuchida
Women's doubles	Atsuko Tokuda Yoshiko Yonekura	Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguno	Saori Kondo Mikiko Takada
			Jane Webster Nora Perry

Semifinal results

• Below are the semifinal results for the World Cup.^[4]

Discipline	Winner	Runner-up	Score
Men's singles	Liem Swie King	Prakash Padukone	15–12, 15–6
	Masao Tsuchida	Flemming Delfs	15–10, 15–13
Women's singles	Lene Køppen	Yoshiko Yonekura	11–8, 11–5
	Hiroe Yuki	Kirsten Larsen	11–7, 11–5
Men's doubles	Ade Chandra & Christian Hadinata	Mikio Ozaki & Nobutake Ikeda	15–10, 15–7
	Flemming Delfs & Steen Skovgaard	Yoshitaka Iino & Masao Tsuchida	15–10, 15–10
Women's doubles	Verawaty Fadjrin & Imelda Wiguno	Saori Kondo & Mikiko Takada	15–9, 11–15, 15–3
	Atsuko Tokuda & Yoshiko Yonekura	Nora Perry & Jane Webster	15–4, 16–17, 15–5

Final results

Discipline	Winner	Finalist	Score
Men's singles	Liem Swie King	Masao Tsuchida	15–6, 15–10
Women's singles	Lene Køppen	Hiroe Yuki	11–4, 12–10
Men's doubles	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Flemming Delfs Steen Skovgaard	15–6, 15–3
Women's doubles	Atsuko Tokuda Yoshiko Yonekura	Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguno	15–12, 17–14