Hendrawan
Hendrawan is an Indonesian badminton coach and former player. He is a former World champion, Olympic silver medalist, and Asian Champion silver medalist.
Personal life
Hendrawan began to play badminton at 10 years old and began his top-level career at Cipayung National Training Center. He retired from the Indonesian team in 2003. He married his longtime girlfriend, former player Silvia Anggraini, the sister of Hendra Setiawan, on January 7, 2001. The couple has two children, daughter Josephine Sevilla and son Alexander Thomas. The second names of both children showing their parents love of badminton, the daughter is named after the city of Seville, Spain, where Hendrawan was crowned World Champion in 2001 and the son Thomas after the Thomas Cup, which Indonesia won three times with Hendrawan as a key team member. Since 2009, Hendrawan trained Malaysian badminton team players after stints in Indonesia as a national women's singles and then men's singles team coach until his contract was not continued in 2024.Career
Hendrawan began playing internationally in the early 1990s but at first was overshadowed by a number of his countrymen who rated among the world's elite players. His results gradually improved, peaking at the end of the decade and the beginning of the next. He earned a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in men's singles, and won men's singles the 2001 World Championships over Denmark's Peter Gade. Hendrawan was an outstanding Thomas Cup performer for Indonesia, winning each of his championship round singles matches in the 1998, 2000, 2002 editions won by Indonesia. In the last of these his final match victory over Malaysia's Roslin Hashim was decisive, breaking a 2-2 tie.Achievements
Olympic Games
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| 2000 | Pavilion 3, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia |  World ChampionshipsMen's singles
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