One of badminton's top competitions will be the focus of international sports this week, with the 2023 World Badminton Championships starting on August 21.

Do you know the badminton World Championships? This article will show the 40-year history of this tournament from a unique perspective.

In 1983, the World Championships held by the former International Badminton Federation and the former World Badminton Federation were "merged", and the World Badminton Championship ushered in the era of unification, and the event became the true sense of the world Championship.

In the past 40 years, the badminton World Championship has been held 25 times, only one team to win gold, this team must be known to everyone, is the national badminton team - China Badminton team.

Indonesia enjoys the reputation of "the Kingdom of badminton", but since the Chinese badminton team became a member of the world badminton family, the national badminton has long replaced Indonesia as the first badminton power.

Taking the World Championships as an example, in the 25 World Championships held since 1983, the national feather has won 69 gold MEDALS, accounting for 55.20%, and the total number of gold MEDALS is 51 more than the second Indonesian team, which is an eye-popping advantage.

In the past 40 years, Kuniha has won 5 gold MEDALS in 3 World Championships, 3 tournaments are 1987, 2010, 2011 World Championships. No other team has achieved this feat.

Guo Yu won 69 gold MEDALS, men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles 5 items won 14 gold, 15 gold, 8 gold, 22 gold, 10 gold, in addition to the men's doubles gold MEDALS and Indonesia tied for first place, the other 4 items of gold MEDALS are alone first.

The record of a single event in the world Championship is also created by Guo Yu. From 1997 to 2017, Guo Yu women's doubles won the world Championship for 14 consecutive times in 20 years, creating a super championship record in the world badminton and even international sports.

Lin Dan has won the men's singles championship for five times, and is the only five-time champion of the same event in the badminton World Championships so far.

CAI Yun and Fu Haifeng are the only pair to win three consecutive titles, having won the World Championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011. They also won the 2006 World Championships.

Lin Ying, Guan Weizheng, Park Jubong, Nasir, Yu Yang, Ah Shan, Setiawan, Zhang Nan, Zhao Yunlei, Gao Ling, Huang Sui, Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong, Chen Chenchen, Jia Yifan and other famous Chinese and foreign players have won the same event for three or four times.

When Chen Chenchen and Jia Yifanru win the women's doubles title at the World Championships, they will become the first women's doubles pair in history to win three consecutive titles.

Li Lingwei and Han Aiping are the only two athletes who have won both singles and doubles titles. Li Haner will be the top singles player in the 1980s, Li Lingwei is the champion of women's singles at the 1983 and 1989 World Championships, Han Aiping won the women's singles at the 1985 and 1987 World Championships. It is worth mentioning that the women's doubles they cooperated with was also the world's top level, and they won the women's doubles gold medal together in the 1985 World Championships.

At present, athletes from 13 countries have won the badminton World Championships, of which six countries - Thailand, Spain, Japan, India, Singapore and Malaysia - have topped the gold medal table in the last 10 years.

It is worth mentioning that the traditional badminton team Malaysia did not taste the World Championship for the first time until 2022, and it was men's doubles player Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi who achieved the breakthrough of zero World championships for the country.

Japan finished fifth in the gold medal tally with eight golds, behind the four traditional powerhouses of China, Indonesia, South Korea and Denmark. China, India, Korea and Dan won their first World Championships gold MEDALS in 1983 or 1985, while Japanese athletes only made their first appearance on the podium of the badminton World Championships in 2017, and have won eight gold MEDALS in the last five editions, equalling China.