Taufik Hidayat
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Taufik Hidayat ( born August 10, 1981 in Bandung ) is an Indonesian badminton player and Olympic champion. Hidayat is one of the world's best badminton player and one of the most popular sports in Indonesia.
Career
He began at the age of seven years with badminton and won between 2000 and 2004, six of the most important tournaments in badminton. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he reached the quarterfinals at the Badminton 2001 World Championships in Seville already the semifinals. His biggest success was winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, but he got a record amount of $ 1 million bonus. In 2005 he was ever to become world champion and Olympic champion winning the title at the World Championships in Anaheim at the same time as the first player. 2000, 2004 and 2007, he became Asian champions, 2002 and 2006, he won the Asian Games. Above all, his skills on the backhand side and his backhand smash are legendary. The Japan Open 2012, he announced his resignation to the Indonesia Open 2013.