Badminton at the 2006 South Asian Games

Badminton
at the 2006 South Asian Games
Badminton ; at the 2006 South Asian Games
Venue	Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium
Dates	16–22 August
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Badminton at the 2006 South Asian Games was held in Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka between 16 and 22 August 2006. The badminton programme in 2006 included men's and women's singles competitions; men's, women's and mixed doubles competitions along with men's and women's team events.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (Sri Lanka)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	7	4	1	12
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)*	0	3	4	7
3	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	6	6
4	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	3	3
Totals (4 entries)		7	7	14	28

Medalists

The following players who won medals at the Games.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Chetan Anand India	Nikhil Kanetkar India	Omar Zeeshan Pakistan
Men's singles	Chetan Anand India	Nikhil Kanetkar India	Wajid Ali Chaudhry Pakistan
Women's singles	Trupti Murgunde India	B. R. Meenakshi India	Chandrika de Silva Sri Lanka
Women's singles	Trupti Murgunde India	B. R. Meenakshi India	Sumina Shrestha Nepal
Men's doubles	India (IND) Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody	Pakistan (PAK) Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam
Men's doubles	India (IND) Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody	India (IND) Akshay Dewalkar Jishnu Sanyal
Women's doubles	India (IND) Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thilini Jayasinghe Chandrika de Silva
Women's doubles	India (IND) Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi	Sri Lanka (SRI) Nadeesha Gayanthi Rasangi Ranatunge
Mixed doubles	India (IND) Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thushara Edirisinghe Chandrika de Silva
Mixed doubles	India (IND) Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan	Pakistan (PAK) Waqas Ahmed Saima Manzoor
Men's team	India (IND)^[2] Chetan Anand Akshay Dewalkar Valiyaveetil Diju Nikhil Kanetkar Rupesh Kumar K. T. Thomas Kurian Jishnu Sanyal Sanave Thomas	Sri Lanka (SRI)^[3] Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody Dinuka Karunaratne Niluka Karunaratne	Nepal (NEP)^[4] Ram Singh Chaudhari Anil Kumar Lakhe Indra Mahata Pashupati Paneru Balaram Thapa
Men's team			Pakistan (PAK)^[5] Waqas Ahmed Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam Wajid Ali Chaudhry Zafar Tasneem Omar Zeeshan
Women's team	India (IND)^[2]^[6] Aparna Balan Krishna Dekaraja Oli Deka Jwala Gutta Shruti Kurien B. R. Meenakshi Trupti Murgunde	Sri Lanka (SRI)^[3] Nadeesha Gayanthi Thilini Jayasinghe Rasangi Ranatunge Chandrika de Silva	Nepal (NEP)^[4] Samjhana Khaling Sujana Shrestha Sumina Shrestha Sara Devi Tamang Neri Thapa
Women's team			Pakistan (PAK)^[5] Aisha Akram Asma Butt Uzma Butt Saima Manzoor Farzana Saleem

Results

Men's singles

Semifinal				Final

Chetan Anand	21	16	21

Omar Zeeshan	10	21	7
				Chetan Anand	21	21

				Nikhil Kanetkar	14	12
Wajid Ali Chaudhry	10	12

Nikhil Kanetkar	21	21

Women's singles

Semifinal			Final

Trupti Murgunde	21	21

Chandrika de Silva	11	10
			Trupti Murgunde	21	21

			B. R. Meenakshi	5	14
Sumina Shrestha	9	4

B. R. Meenakshi	21	21

Men's doubles

Semi-finals				Final

Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas	21	21

Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam	17	13
				Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas	21	21

				Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody	16	10
Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody	21	16	21

Akshay Dewalkar Jishnu Sanyal	13	21	16

Women's doubles

Semi-finals			Final

Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi	21	21

Thilini Jayasinghe Chandrika de Silva	7	14
			Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi	21	21	12

			Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta	18	23	21
Nadeesha Gayanthi Rasangi Ranatunge	10	10

Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta	21	21

Mixed doubles

Semi-finals				Final

Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	19	21	21

Waqas Ahmed Saima Manzoor	21	15	17
				Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	21	21

				Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan	11	13
Thushara Edirisinghe Chandrika de Silva	12	9

Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan	21	21

References

^ "10th South Asian Games Colombo 2006: Badminton" (PDF). www.sacep.org. SACEP. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Anand, Murgunde to lead at SAF badminton". www.rediff.com. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "'Our players are improving' – Badminton Manager Tony Perera". www.island.lk. 3 August 2006. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "10th SA Game – 2006 Colombo, Sri Lanka". nocnepal.org.np. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "X South Asian Games". www.sports.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ "SAF: Indian shuttlers move to semis". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 20 August 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

External links

Individual semi-final results at pdfs.island.lk

[1] "10th South Asian Games Colombo 2006: Badminton" (PDF). www.sacep.org. SACEP. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[in-2] "Anand, Murgunde to lead at SAF badminton". www.rediff.com. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[lk-3] "'Our players are improving' – Badminton Manager Tony Perera". www.island.lk. 3 August 2006. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[np-4] "10th SA Game – 2006 Colombo, Sri Lanka". nocnepal.org.np. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[pk-5] "X South Asian Games". www.sports.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[6] "SAF: Indian shuttlers move to semis". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 20 August 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

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