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Rudy Hartono - HIS LIFE AND DEATH FOR BADMINTON.
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Written by Anonymous
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Thursday, 10 June 2004
Page 1 of 3 His ambition to become a doctor was abandoned in favour of badminton. His excellent performance in this sport, and his famous killer smashes, led him to great success as Champion of the All England tournament for eight times, and together with the Indonesian team won the Thomas Cup in 1970, 1973, 1976 and 1979. [This feature is dedicated to cover the stories of national heroes]. All around the world people may debate over the superiority of legends such as Muhammad Ali and Pele. But in Indonesia only one name springs to mind. Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, 8 times All England men’s singles champion, one of the biggest badminton team events. He was born Nio Hap Liang on 18 August 1949, the third child of Mr and Mrs Zulkarnain Kurniawan. Freddy Harsono is his older brother, and Diana Veronica his older sister. His five younger siblings are Jeanne Utami, Eliza Laksmi Dewi, Ferry Harianto, Tjosi Hartanto, and Hauwtje Hariadi. This huge family lives in Jalan Kaliasin 49, now Jalan Basuki Rachmat in the business areas of Surabaya. This residence is also the base of a men’s tailoring business. Their other businesses include a milk processing outfit near Wanokromo.
Just like other kids, the little Rudy was also interested in all sorts of sport at school, particularly athletics. While at SD (Grade School?) he loved swimming. At high school he played volleyball, while at Senior High he was a brillaint football player. He was also good at swimming and rollerskating. But out of all these sports, Badminton was his major passion. At 9 yrs old Rudy had already shown his talent in this sport. But his father only noticed his potential when he was 11. He too was a badminton player when younger. Mr Zulkarnain had played Class 1 competitions in Surabaya. He first played at Oke Badminton Association which he founded himself in 1951. In 1964 the association was dissolved and he moved to Surya Naga group. Here he was asked to train young players. In his training, Zul believes in four things: speed, good breathing, consistency and aggresiveness. Because of this all his charges had to go through athletic training, especially long and short distance running, jumping, ? and ?.
At Oke Rudy started his systematic training , while previously his training was more pedestrian, literally. He had actually trained on asphalt road which was bumpy and rocky, in front of the PLN Office in Surabaya, previously named Jalan Gemblongan. He said this in his book Rajawali Dengan Jurus Padi (1986). There, Rudy trained only on Sundays, from morning till 10.00. Building in confidence, Rudy began to join competitions in Surabaya, fromone village to the other, under Petromaks lights. After moving to PB Oke owned by his father, his training became more systematic. He trained in the railway warehouse, surrounded by trains at PJKA Karangmenjangan, He felt at ease training there, saying, ‘I trained there through the evening. There was light. The floor was concrete, not excellent, but good enough. And there was a foodstall next door. If we got hungry, we would eat and have a drink there. And being very young, we would actually prefer eating and drinking to playing badminton.’ Soon however he would play with the Rajawali group which has produced many international badminton players. He feels he was his best while training with WB Rajawali. But while acknowledging his father’s input he admitted his technical and tactical skills were only developed much better after joining the National Centralized Training for Thomas Cup in late 1965. Soon, his performance skyrocketed. He was part of the Thomas Cup winning team in 1967. A year later at 18 he won his first All England champion title having defeated Malaysian ace Tan Aik Huang with the score of 15-12 and 15-9. He won the tile every year since until 1974. The supremo of badminton tophies seemed to belong to him (the record still stands). But what seemed was not to be.
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26 May 2005 World Rankings |
| | Men's Single |
| 1. | LIN Dan | CHN |
| 2. | JONASSEN Kenneth | DEN |
| 3. | GADE Peter | DEN |
| 4. | LEE Chong Wei | MAS |
| 5. | BAO Chunlai | CHN |
| | Ladies' Single |
| 1. | XIE Xingfang | CHN |
| 2. | ZHANG Ning | CHN |
| 3. | PI ~ * Hongyan | FRA |
| 4. | YAO ~ * Jie | NED |
| 5. | WANG ~ Chen | HKG |
| | Men's Double |
| 1. | ERIKSEN Jens
LUNDGAARD HANSEN Martin | DEN |
| 2. | HADIYANTO Luluk
ALVEN Yulianto | INA |
| 3. | PAASKE Lars
RASMUSSEN Jonas | DEN |
| | Ladies' Double |
| 1. | YANG Wei
ZHANG Jiewen | CHN |
| 2. | WEI Yili
ZHAO Tingting | CHN |
| 3. | GAO Ling
HUANG Sui | CHN |
| | Mixed Double |
| 1. | ROBERTSON Nathan
EMMS Gail | ENG |
| 2. | ZHANG Jun
GAO Ling | CHN |
| 3. | ERIKSEN Jens
SCHJOLDAGER Mette | DEN |
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