Rexy Mainaky


Rexy Ronald Mainaky, simply known as Rexy, is an Indonesian badminton coach and former player. He was men's doubles badminton world champion who is often simply known as Rexy. He won the men's doubles Olympic gold medal in 1996 with Ricky Subagja. As of October 2021, he was appointed as the new deputy coaching director of the Badminton Association of Malaysia.

Career

During the 1990s Mainaky and fellow countryman Ricky Subagja formed the most internationally successful team of the decade. Both noted for their quickness and power, Mainaky and Subagja won over thirty international titles together, including all of badminton's major championships at least once. They captured Olympic gold at Atlanta in 1996, the then biennial IBF World Championships in 1995 at Lausanne, Switzerland, and the venerable All-England Championships back to back in 1995 and 1996. A partial listing of their victories includes the China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, and Denmark Opens; the World Badminton Grand Prix, the Badminton World Cup, and the quadrennial Asian Games.
Mainaky and Subagja were bronze medalists at the 1997 IBF World Championships in Glasgow. They were eliminated in the quarterfinals at both the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Olympics]. Mainaky won the 2000 Asian Badminton Championships with another Indonesian doubles maestro, Tony Gunawan. He was a member of consecutive world champion Indonesian Thomas Cup teams in 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000.
Five of seven children in the Mainaky family, Rexy, Richard, Marleve, Rionny and Karel, were part of the Indonesian national shuttling team in the 1990s and nowadays they still have a hand in the sport, though courtside as badminton coaches.
He is currently the doubles director of coaching of the Badminton Association of Malaysia.

Awards and nominations

AwardYearCategoryResult
Badminton World Federation Awards2009Badminton Hall of Fame
Candra Wijaya International Badminton Centre Awards2017The best men's doubles legend with Ricky Subagja

Achievements

Olympic Games

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResultRef
1996GSU Sports Arena, Atlanta, United States

World Championships

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1997Scotstoun Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

World Cup

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1997Among Rogo Sports Hall, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Asian Games

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResultRef
1994Tsuru Memorial Gymnasium, Hiroshima, Japan

Asian Championships

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2000Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia

Asian Cup

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1994Beijing Gymnasium, Beijing, China

SEA Games

Men's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1997Asia-Africa hall, Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex,
Jakarta, Indonesia

IBF World Grand Prix (27 titles, 9 runners-up)

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation since 1983.
Men's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2000Korea Open

IBF International (1 runner-up)

Men's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1992French Open

Post-playing career

Mainaky is known amongst his peers and colleagues, and the game's fans, as one of the greatest doubles player of all time, alongside players such as Christian Hadinata, Tjun Tjun, Johan Wahjudi, Liem Swie King, Ricky Subagja, Tony Gunawan, Hendra Setiawan, Park Joo Bong, Kim Dong Moon, Fu Haifeng, Cai Yun, and Finn Kobbero. He is regarded as one of the best coaches in the world, alongside former player Park Joo Bong of Korea. He is noted for his charity work through badminton, by playing in exhibitions across Asia and Europe post-competitive career. He was the coach to English badminton mixed doubles' pair Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson and successfully brought them winning the 2004 Summer Olympic silver medal, 2005 All England Open Badminton Championships and 2006 IBF World Championships titles.
Mainaky became a coach after his playing career. He coached the Malaysian National Team's Doubles department and his biggest success was bringing up Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong. He guided the pair to an Asian Games Gold Medal in Doha 2006. However, there was rumours about a fall out between Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong with Rexy as the pair requested for a change of coaches. Subsequently, he left the Badminton Association of Malaysia in 2012 after seven years and joined the Philippines Badminton Association as head coach. After about a year he left the Philippines Badminton Association and returned to his homeland Indonesia. He became Indonesia's high performance director and was basically the head of the Indonesia Badminton Team. He is currently still serving as the High performance director for Indonesia. In 2017, Mainaky left his position at Badminton Association of Indonesia to join Thailand Badminton Association. In 2018, Mainaky led the Thai women's team reached the Uber Cup final for the first time in their history.