Back in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, badminton was officially promoted from a performance event to a competitive event. Men's and women's singles and doubles were the first to enter the badminton Olympic Games, resulting in Olympic badminton champions. Mixed doubles began to enter the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games four years later.

Among the badminton Olympic events, the men's singles event is undoubtedly the most concerned. In the past eight Olympic Games, the status of Chinese men's singles players is as follows: 4 gold (Ji Xinpeng X1, Lin Dan X2, Chen Long X1), 2 silver (Dong JiongX1, Chen Long X1), bronze X3 (Xia Xuanze X1, Chen Jin X1, Chen Long X1), the title rate is just half, in terms of the team belongs to a super strong performance.

A strong and respectable opponent often makes a stronger oneself. In the Olympic Games, which foreign badminton men's singles players have become a strong opponent of national badminton players, won the medal? In this article, the author will according to the highest honor as the order, for everyone to count and briefly introduce the foreign badminton men's singles players who have won MEDALS in the previous Olympic Games, for reference.

The highest Olympic medal for foreign men's singles players is bronze: Thomas Still-Laurisen, CAI Xianglin, Rasi Sidi, Soni Kunkoro, Jin Ting.

Thomas Still-Laurisen, for this Danish uncle, I am afraid that only very veteran feathers fans will still remember. Denmark is a traditional badminton power, there is no shortage of good players, and the men's singles player representing Denmark for the first time to stand on the podium is active in the early to the middle of the 1990s.

Back in 1992, Thomas Still-Laurison made it to the final four. Since there was no bronze medal battle at that time, he shared the bronze medal with Indonesian great CAI Xianglin. In addition to the bronze medal, Laurison finished third at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995. The third place in three World championships is the most representative moment in the career of this first generation of Danish badminton star.

CAI Xianglin, the eldest son of CAI Zongman, an ancient badminton master in Indonesia. At the 1992 Olympics, he shared the bronze medal with Denmark's Lorisen. As a men's singles player, CAI Xianglin participated in and witnessed the heyday of Indonesian men's badminton in the 1990s, and was one of the main players of the Indonesian men's team.

In the course of his career, CAI Xianglin has won many major Open championships. In addition to his bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics, his highest honor was a runner-up at the 1993 World Championships. Unfortunately, under the extremely strong circumstances of Indonesian badminton at that time, CAI Xianglin's halo was weakened by his teammates Wei Renfang and Adi.

Raxi Sidi, Malaysia's most successful men's singles badminton player before Lee Chong Wei, has long been Lee's coach. As a badminton player, Raxi Sidi was active in the mid-1990s and was the representative figure of Malaysian badminton at that time.

At the 1996 Olympic Games, Rashy Sidi won the bronze medal in the men's singles event, his highest honor in badminton. In addition, he won the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and was once hailed as a "local hero" in Malaysia. After retiring, as a coach, he helped Lee Chong Wei break through himself and go to the next level.

Soni Kunkoro, a rising Indonesian badminton player at the beginning of the new century, and a disciple of Yip Cheng Wan. Kunkoro made his name at the World Youth Championships back in 2000, when he defeated Malaysian rising star Lee Chong Wei in the last four before losing to Bao Chunlai in the final.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Soni Kunkoro broke into the semifinals, but lost to the South Korean star Sun Seung-mo brought out by Li Mo, and finally defeated Thailand's Posana to win the bronze medal. In addition, Quincoro won the second place in the World Championships once (2007), when he lost to Lin Dan who was already in peak form.

In Asia-wide competitions, Quincoro is very experienced, three times in the Asian Championship. Despite the obvious gap with his predecessor Taufik, he did carry Indonesian badminton for a long time in the dark period. In addition, born in 1984, he is actually an evergreen tree in the badminton world, playing until 2019 to fade out.

Jin Ting, 24, is the current Indonesian singles badminton star, currently ranked fifth in the world and a bronze medalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. With a pair of spring legs, good at playing speed and strong attack, Jin Ting is the guardian figure of Indonesian badminton. After a long dormant period, Indonesian men's singles has finally emerged a momentum of re-emergence. In addition to Jinting, Jonatan, currently ranked seventh in the world, is also one of the men's singles active duty.