BWF World Junior Championships


The BWF World Junior Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation to crown the best junior badminton players in the world. The championships is held annually and consists of two separate competitions: a mixed team championships followed by an individual championships.

Editions

The precursor of the championships was the Bimantara World Junior Invitational held in Indonesia from 1987 to 1991. In 1992, International Badminton 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.

Past champions

Individual

Mixed team

The mixed team event was introduced in 2000 and later was known as Suhandinata Cup since 2008. A new trophy with Balinese ornament designed by Yose Sulawu was introduced in 2009 edition.

All time medal table

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:
TypePlayerWorld Junior Champion World Champion
Men's Singles Sun Jun19921999
Women's Doubles Gu Jun19921997, 1999
Women's Doubles Gao Ling19962001, 2003, 2006
Women's Doubles Yang Wei19962005, 2007
Women's Singles Gong Ruina19982001
Women's Doubles Zhang Jiewen19982005, 2007
Women's Doubles Zhang Yawen20002009
Men's Singles Chen Jin2002, 20042010
Women's Doubles Du Jing20022010
Women's Doubles Tian Qing20042014, 2015
Women's Doubles Yu Yang20042010, 2011, 2013
Women's Singles Wang Yihan20062011
Women's Doubles Wang Xiaoli20062011, 2013
Women's Singles Wang Lin20072010
Men's Doubles Shin Baek-cheol20072014
Men's Singles Chen Long20072014, 2015
Women's Singles Ratchanok Intanon2009, 2010, 20112013
Men's Singles Viktor Axelsen20102017
Women's Singles Nozomi Okuhara20122017
Men's Singles Kento Momota20122018, 2019
Men's Doubles Li Junhui20132018
Men's Doubles Liu Yuchen20132018
Women's Doubles Chen Qingchen2014, 20152017
Women's Doubles Jia Yifan2014, 20152017
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei20152018, 2019

Successful players

Below is the list of the most successful players ever in the BWF World Junior Championships, with 3 or more gold medals.
PlayersBSGSBDGDXDXTTotal
Chen Qingchen2338
He Jiting1135
Yu Yang1225
Bao Yixin1124
Chen Jin224
Chen Yufei134
Du Yue134
Jia Yifan224
Xia Huan134
Xie Jing1124
Zheng Siwei1124
Chai Biao123
Chan Chong Ming213
Di Zijian123
Han Chengkai123
Huang Kaixiang213
Kunlavut Vitidsarn33
Lee Yong-dae1113
Leo Rolly Carnando1113
Li Gen33
Lin Fangling1113
Lin Guipu123
Liu Cheng123
Liu Xuanxuan123
Ratchanok Intanon33
Sang Yang1113
Sun Feixiang123
Tang Jinhua123
Wang Chang123
Wang Lin123
Wang Zhengming123
Zhang Yawen1113
Xia Yuting123
Zhong Qianxin123
Zhou Haodong123

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.
RankCountry929496980002040607080910111213141516171819Total
12443654243331244513265
2121111131113
3141113112
42112129
521111118
62111117
71113
8112
911
911
911

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

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