Si Kurus dari Banting Juara Melayu Pertama

Zaman gelap badminton Malaysia mula nampak sinar apabila muncul anak muda kurus tinggi dari anting yang bernama Misbun Sidek. Misbun lahir 1960 dan adalah salah seorang pemain terbaik dalan era 80'an yang mempunyai ramai jaguh yang hebat seperti Morten Frost, Liem swee King, Han Jian, Zhao Jianhua, Yang yang, Icuk Sugiarto dan lain-lain.Mula menunjukkan bakat pada usia 18 tahun dan muncul sebagai juara kebangsaan pada 1979. Misbun yang mulanya dianggap sepi mula menggegar dunia badminton apabila memenangi Terbuka Jerman 1981. Tahun berikutnya dia mengalahkan jaguh Indonesia Icuk Sugiarto untuk bergelar juara di terbuka Sweden.
Walaupun gagal untuk meraih kejuaraan utama dunia, Misbun dianggap sebagai "The Giant Killer" kerana pernah mengalahkan hampir semua jaguh dunia pada zamannya. Dengan personaliti dan ragam serta kontroversi yang pelbagai, Misun telah menambahkan warna suka duka dan kegembiraan dalam badminton negara yang pudar sebelum itu. Ditambah pula dengan kehadiran adik-adiknya beradiknya yang bersaing sebagai pasangan bergu utama dunia pada ketika itu, era 80'an merupakan detik yang membanggakan buat badminton negara.

1981	German Open bt Syed Modi 18-17, 15-10
1982	Swedish Open bt Icuk Sugiarto 9-15, 18-14, 15-13
1983	Swedish Open bt Morten Frost 9-15, 15-10, 15-13
1983	Canadian Open bt Jens Peter Nierhoff 15-6, 11-15, 15-12
1985	Malaysia Open bt Michael Kjeldsen 18-16, 15-3
1987	Chinese Taipei Open bt Park Joo Bong 5-15, 15-9, 15-3
1987	Singapore Open bt Eddy Kurniawan 15-13, 15-8

[Runners-up (4)

1982	World Cup Lost Liem Swie King	12-15, 15-3, 12-15
1986	All England Lost Morten Frost	2-15, 8-15
1986	Malaysian Open Lost Zhao Jianhua	10-15, 13-15
1986	China Open Lost Icuk Sugiarto 11-15, 13-15

Misbun dengan rambut warna blonde tengah

Sebagai jurulatih Lee Chong Wei

Misbun rambut mohican

Keluarag Sidek yang mewarnai badminton Malaysia

 

Perlawanan klasik Piala Final Piala Dunia 1982 rubber set antara Misbun vs Liem Swee King.

Misbun mendahului set ketga dengan 10-1, tetapi entah apa berlaku nafasnya tertsesak dan tewas 12-15

Zaman Gelap Badminton Malaysia

Selepas persaraan Punch Gunalan pada awal 70'an berlaku keadaan suram dan gelap dalam badminton Malaysia. Tidak pernah terjadi di mana Malaysia telah ketandusan bakat dan jaguh yang bukan sahaja tidak mampu menggugat Indonesia dan Denmark, bahkan kita juga tidak dapat mengalahkan Thailand, Sweden, Singapura ataupun India. Pemain-pemain malaysia ketika itu seperti Phua Ah Hua, Saw Swee Leong, Suffian Abu bakar, James Selvaraj, Moo Foot Lian kerap tewas di pusingan awal pada kejohanan-kejohanan terbuka yang disertai.
cuma berlaku satu kejutan terbesar apabila skuad Malaysia ini mengejutkan Denmark 5-4 pada separuh akhirPiala Thomas 1976 yang berlangsung di Bangkok dan pada saya kejutan itu lebih kepada pemain Denmark yang tidak dapat menyesuaikan diri dengan iklim panas di Stadium Hua Mak, Bangkok.
begitupun pada perlawanan akhir kita menjadi bahaman kepada Indonesia di final dengan kekalahan 9-0.

Skuad Piala Thomas Malaysia 1976

Indonesia 9	Bangkok, Thailand June 4 & June 5, 1976	Malaysia 0
[hide] 1 2 3 1 Liem Swie King Phua Ah Hua 15 12 15 1 2 Rudy Hartono Saw Swee Leong 15 7 15 5 3 Christian Hadinata / Ade Chandra James Selvaraj / Moo Foot Lian 15 4 15 1 4 Tjun Tjun / Johan Wahjudi Dominic Soong / Cheah Hong Chong 13 15 15 6 15 6 5 Tjun Tjun James Selvaraj 15 1 15 7 6 Liem Swie King Saw Swee Leong 18 13 15 3 7 Rudy Hartono Phua Ah Hua 15 5 15 1 8 Christian Hadinata / Ade Chandra Phua Ah Hua / Cheah Hong Chong 15 6 15 11 9 Tjun Tjun / Johan Wahjudi James Selvaraj / Moo Foot Lian 15 6 15 2

Big 4 Double In The 80's

Pada permulaan era 80'an hanya ada 4 pasangan yang bersilih ganti menjuarai acara beregu lelaki tahun 80'an.  Namun tidak dinafikan pasangan Korea, Park Joo Bong dan Kim Moon Soo berada satu level melebihi 3 pasangan lain iaitu Li Yongbo& Tian Bingyi, Razif & Jalani dan Hartono & Gunawan. Bahkan Joo Bong/Moon Soo adalah satu-satu pasangan yang tidak dapat dikalahkan oleh Razif/Jalani.
 

Park Joo Bong & Kim Moon Soo

 



Park Joo Bong













1.  Park Joo Bong- Kim Moon Soo

Park Joo-bong  (born December 5, 1964) is a former badminton player from South Korea who excelled from the early 1980s through the mid 1990s with his partnership Kim Moo Soo

He is the most successful player ever in the World Badminton Championships with 5 titles, 2 of them in men's doubles and 3 in mixed doubles. He also won a gold and a silver medal at the Summer Olympics and 9 All England Open Badminton Championships titles. Though Park was primarily a doubles player, the greatest one ever in the opinion of some, he was capable of world class level singles which he displayed in occasional tournaments and Thomas Cup appearances early in his career and currently holds the South Korean national record of 103 consecutive wins in men's singles from 1981 to 1984. His playing strengths included remarkable reflexes, reach, quickness, agility, and power.

Major Achievement

Gold Olympic 1992

Winner World Championships 1985, 1991

Winner All England  1985, 1986, 1990

Winner Asian Games 1986

Winner Asian Championships 1990

Tian Bingyi



Li Yongbo & Tian Bingyi



Li Yongbo




















2.  Li Yongbo & Tian Bingyi

From the mid 1980's to the early 1990s Tian and his regular partner Li Yongbo won numerous top tier international titles. They were contemporaries and rivals of the famous Korean team of Park Joo-bong and Kim Moon-soo, largely dividing the world's biggest championships between them for about eight seasons. Among many tournaments around the world Tian and Li captured consecutive World Championships in 1987 and 1989, the prestigious All-England Championship in 1987, 1988, and 1991, and five Danish Opens between 1984 and 1991.[1][2] they also played on Chinese Thomas Cup (men's international teams) that won consecutive world team titles in 1986, 1988, and 1990. Late in their partnership they won a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona



Jalani & Razif Sidek




Razif Sidek

3.  Razif & Jalani Sidek

Mohamad Razif Mohd Sidek (Nickname: Ajib) (born May 29, 1962 in Banting, Selangor) is a former badminton player from Malaysia and a prominent world-class doubles player with younger brother Jalani Sidek during the mid 1980s to early 1990s.

He is the second oldest brother after Misbun amongst the six Sidek brothers who played badminton. He usually plays doubles with his younger brother, Jalani. Razif won a gold medal for Malaysia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games doubles with Ong Beng Teong. Razif and Jalani won the All England Championship title in 1982 after beating the Scottish pair, Billy Gilliland and Dan Travers.

He was also a member of the Malaysian squad that won the Thomas Cup for the first time in 25 years, in a 3-2 victory over Indonesia at the National Stadium in 1992. He created history by becoming the first Malaysian athlete to win an Olympic Games medal in Barcelona 1992. They won a bronze medal for Malaysia after reaching the semi-finals in the men's doubles category where they lost to the Korean pair, Park Joo-bong and Kim Moon-Soo.

During his career with Jalani, they become one of the best four doubles pair in the world (Park Joo-bong/Kim Moon-soo, Rudy Gunawan/Eddy Hartono and Tian Bingyi/Li Yongbo) from the 1980s until the early 1990s. After he retired as a badminton player, he was appointed as Malaysian national coach from 1994 until 1996.

Major Achievements

All England Champion 1982

Malaysian Open Champion 1985, 1987

World Grand Prix Champion 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991

Japanese Open Champion 1986

Taiwan Open Champion 1986, 1989, 1991

Indonesian Open Champion 1988, 1990

China Open Champion 1989

Hong Kong Open Champion 1989

SEA Games Champion 1989, 1991 (men team event)

Commonwealth Games Champion 1990

World Cup Champion 1990, 1991

Asian Badminton Championships Champion 1990, 1991, 1992

Thomas Cup Champion 1992 (men team event)

Olympic Games 1992 (bronze medal)




Rudy Gunawan & Eddy Hartono

  

4.  Eddy Hartono & Rudy Gunawan

Eddy Hartono Arbie (, born July 19, 1964 in Kudus) is a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player who excelled in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a brief stint competing in singles, he soon became a doubles specialist noted for his deft racket control and fluent strokes.

Hartono shared numerous international men's doubles titles in a relatively brief time period, most of them with Rudy Gunawan (born 1966). These included the Japan (1987), Indonesia (1989, 1992), Dutch (1989, 1992), Singapore (1990), and Thailand (1991) Opens. He won the World Badminton Grand Prix (1990), the Southeast Asian Games (1991), the prestigious All-England title (1992), and earned a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, all with Gunawan. Hartono also captured several international mixed doubles titles, and placed second in mixed doubles at the 1989 IBF World Championships with Verawaty Fajrin.





Eddy Hartono