Tournament
The BWF World Junior Championships (also known as the World Junior Badminton Championships) is a tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to crown the best junior badminton players (under-19) in the world. The championships is held annually and consists of two separate competitions: a mixed team championships (Suhandinata Cup) followed by an individual championships (Eye Level Cups).[1]
Editions
The precursor of the championships was the Bimantara World Junior Invitational held in Indonesia from 1987 to 1991.[2] In 1992, International Badminton Federation (former name of Badminton World Federation) started the first IBF World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia. BWF later decided the championships will be held annually instead of biennially starting from the 2007 edition.
The 2020 BWF World Junior Championships was a tournament that was to be the twenty-second edition of the BWF World Junior Championships. It would have be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 11 to 24 January 2021.[3] Originally the event was to be held from 28 September to 11 October 2020 but had to be rescheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.[4] On 22 October, it was later cancelled and the 2024 edition to be held in New Zealand.[5] Auckland was awarded the event in November 2018 during the announcement of 18 major badminton event hosts from 2019 to 2025.[6]
The 2021 BWF World Junior Championships was going to be the twenty-second edition of the BWF World Junior Championships. It was planned to be held in Chengdu, China but was cancelled in August 2021 owing to widespread outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19.[7][8] China was awarded the event in November 2018 during the announcement of 18 major badminton event hosts from 2019 to 2025.[9] Chengdu was named in July 2020 as the bidding city and accepted as the host for the event.[10]
Successful players and national teams
World Junior Champions who later became World Champions
List of players who have won BWF World Junior Championships and later won the BWF World Championships:
Type |
Player |
World Junior Champion (Year) |
World Champion (Year)
|
Men's Singles |
Sun Jun |
1992 |
1999
|
Women's Doubles |
Gu Jun |
1992 |
1997, 1999
|
Women's Doubles |
Gao Ling |
1996 |
2001, 2003, 2006
|
Women's Doubles |
Yang Wei |
1996 |
2005, 2007
|
Women's Singles |
Gong Ruina |
1998 |
2001
|
Women's Doubles |
Zhang Jiewen |
1998 |
2005, 2007
|
Women's Doubles |
Zhang Yawen |
2000 |
2009
|
Men's Singles |
Chen Jin |
2002, 2004 |
2010
|
Women's Doubles |
Du Jing |
2002 |
2010
|
Women's Doubles |
Tian Qing |
2004 |
2014, 2015
|
Women's Doubles |
Yu Yang |
2004 |
2010, 2011, 2013
|
Women's Singles |
Wang Yihan |
2006 |
2011
|
Women's Doubles |
Wang Xiaoli |
2006 |
2011, 2013
|
Women's Singles |
Wang Lin |
2007 |
2010
|
Men's Doubles |
Shin Baek-cheol |
2007 |
2014
|
Men's Singles |
Chen Long |
2007 |
2014, 2015
|
Women's Singles |
Ratchanok Intanon |
2009, 2010, 2011 |
2013
|
Men's Singles |
Viktor Axelsen |
2010 |
2017, 2022
|
Women's Singles |
Nozomi Okuhara |
2012 |
2017
|
Men's Singles |
Kento Momota |
2012 |
2018, 2019
|
Men's Doubles |
Li Junhui |
2013 |
2018
|
Men's Doubles |
Liu Yuchen |
2013 |
2018
|
Women's Doubles |
Chen Qingchen |
2014, 2015 |
2017, 2021, 2022
|
Women's Doubles |
Jia Yifan |
2014, 2015 |
2017, 2021, 2022
|
Mixed Doubles |
Zheng Siwei |
2015 |
2018, 2019, 2022
|
Men's Doubles |
Dechapol Puavaranukroh |
2014 |
2021 (XD)
|
Women's Singles |
Akane Yamaguchi |
2013, 2014 |
2021, 2022
|
Successful players
Below is the list of the most successful players ever in the BWF World Junior Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.
BS: Boys' singles; GS: Girls' singles; BD: Boys' doubles; GD: Girls' doubles; XD: Mixed doubles; XT: Mixed team;
Successful national teams
Below is the gold medalists shown based by category and countries since the championships' inception in 1992, with China being the most successful in the World Junior Championships. They were the only country ever to achieve a shutout of the medals which they did in 2000.
BOLD means overall winner of that World Junior Championships
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Mixed team