World indoor championships in Nanjing from March postponed to March Asian indoor championships in Hangzhou from Feb. Asian cross-country championships in Hong Kong on March 29 postponed. Tokyo Marathon on March 1: Restricted to elite runners. Pyongyang Marathon in North Korea on April 12 canceled. New date not set.
The first edition was held in The competition features men's and women's singles events, with 16 players qualifying to take part in each event, subject to a maximum of two players per association. Starting from , the Asian Cup serves as a qualification event for the World Cup. And the Asian Cup was held in December of the same year. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 8 April
He won the men's doubles title at the Asian Cup, and was part of Chinese team that won the Asian Games and Sudirman Cup. Huang is a Wenzhou , Zhejiang natives, who started to know sport since he was in elementary school. His skills were discovered during a badminton talent identification program by Zhejiang province team in , when he was 11 years old. Although he started the training from the basics, Huang immediately shown a good progress in the men's doubles, and then after won some national tournaments, he was selected to join national team in Beijing in Huang reached his first Grand Prix tournament finals at the China Open with his partner Zheng Yumin , but the duo defeated by Malaysian pair Jalani and Razif Sidek in rubber games.
At 18 years, 3 months, and 19 days, she was the youngest player ever to win a World Championship title, in any discipline. She reached a career high as women's doubles world number 1 with Gil in August Jang Hye-ock entered the national team in , when she was in the second grade of Seongshim Girls' High School. Although, she has a small physique, Jang was excellent as play-maker, supporting with her power and spirit to compete.