Susi Susanti

Susy Susanti Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti
Personal information
Birth name	Ong Lien Hiang 王蓮香
Country	Indonesia
Born	(1971-02-11) 11 February 1971 (age 46) Tasikmalaya, Indonesia
Height	162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	1
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Indonesia Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Singles 1996 Atlanta Singles World Championships 1993 Birmingham Singles 1991 Copenhagen Singles 1995 Lausanne Singles Asian Games 1990 Beijing Team 1994 Hiroshima Team 1990 Beijing Singles 1994 Hiroshima Singles Badminton World Cup 1989 Guangzhou Singles 1993 New Delhi Singles 1994 Ho Chi Minh Singles 1996 Jakarta Singles 1997 Yogyakarta Singles Uber Cup 1994 Jakarta Team 1996 Hong Kong Team 1998 Hong Kong Team Sudirman Cup 1989 Jakarta Team 1991 Copenhagen Team 1993 Birmingham Team 1995 Lausanne Team

Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti (Ong Lien Hiang; Chinese: 王蓮香, born in Tasikmalaya, West Java on 11 February 1971) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. Relatively small of stature, she combined quick and graceful movement with elegant shotmaking technique, and rates among the most successful players in the history of the women's game. Sometimes her name is also spelled Susi Susanti.

She won the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain and the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States. She retired from the world badminton circuit not long after her marriage to Alan Budikusuma (who had also won a badminton singles gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics) in February 1997. Susanti was the most dominant women's singles player in the first half of the 1990s, winning the All-England in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, the World Badminton Grand Prix finale five times consecutively from 1990 to 1994 as well as in 1996, and the IBF World Championships in 1993. She is the only female player to hold the Olympic, World Championship, and All-England singles titles simultaneously. She won the Japan Open three times and the Indonesian Open five times. She also won numerous Badminton Grand Prix Series events and five Badminton World Cups. She led the Indonesian team to victory over perennial champion China in the 1994 and 1996 Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions. All of this came during a relatively strong period in women's international badminton. Her chief competitors early in her prime years were the Chinese players Tang Jiuhong and Huang Hua, and, later, China's Ye Zhaoying and the Korean star Bang Soo-hyun.

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