Badminton at the 2006 South Asian Games

Badminton at the 2006 South Asian Games was held in Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka between 16 and 22 August 2006. The badminton programme in 2006 included men's and women's singles competitions; men's, women's and mixed doubles competitions along with men's and women's team events.^[1]

Badminton at the 2006 South Asian Games
Venue	Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium
Dates	16–22 August
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Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sri Lanka)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	7	4	1	12
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)*	0	3	4	7
3	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	6	6
4	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	3	3
Totals (4 entries)		7	7	14	28

Medalists

The following players who won medals at the Games.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Chetan Anand  India	Nikhil Kanetkar  India	Omar Zeeshan  Pakistan
			Wajid Ali Chaudhry  Pakistan
Women's singles	Trupti Murgunde  India	B. R. Meenakshi  India	Chandrika de Silva  Sri Lanka
			Sumina Shrestha  Nepal
Men's doubles	India (IND) Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody	Pakistan (PAK) Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam
			India (IND) Akshay Dewalkar Jishnu Sanyal
Women's doubles	India (IND) Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thilini Jayasinghe Chandrika de Silva
			Sri Lanka (SRI) Nadeesha Gayanthi Rasangi Ranatunge
Mixed doubles	India (IND) Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	India (IND) Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan	Sri Lanka (SRI) Thushara Edirisinghe Chandrika de Silva
			Pakistan (PAK) Waqas Ahmed Saima Manzoor
Men's team	India (IND)[2] Chetan Anand Akshay Dewalkar Valiyaveetil Diju Nikhil Kanetkar Rupesh Kumar K. T. Thomas Kurian Jishnu Sanyal Sanave Thomas	Sri Lanka (SRI)[3] Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody Dinuka Karunaratne Niluka Karunaratne	Nepal (NEP)[4] Ram Singh Chaudhari Anil Kumar Lakhe Indra Mahata Pashupati Paneru Balaram Thapa
			Pakistan (PAK)[5] Waqas Ahmed Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam Wajid Ali Chaudhry Zafar Tasneem Omar Zeeshan
Women's team	India (IND)[2][6] Aparna Balan Krishna Dekaraja Oli Deka Jwala Gutta Shruti Kurien B. R. Meenakshi Trupti Murgunde	Sri Lanka (SRI)[3] Nadeesha Gayanthi Thilini Jayasinghe Rasangi Ranatunge Chandrika de Silva	Nepal (NEP)[4] Samjhana Khaling Sujana Shrestha Sumina Shrestha Sara Devi Tamang Neri Thapa
			Pakistan (PAK)[5] Aisha Akram Asma Butt Uzma Butt Saima Manzoor Farzana Saleem

Results

Men's singles

	Semifinal							Final
	Chetan Anand		21	16	21
	Omar Zeeshan		10	21	7
								Chetan Anand		21	21
								Nikhil Kanetkar		14	12
	Wajid Ali Chaudhry		10	12
	Nikhil Kanetkar		21	21

Women's singles

	Semifinal							Final
	Trupti Murgunde		21	21
	Chandrika de Silva		11	10
								Trupti Murgunde		21	21
								B. R. Meenakshi		5	14
	Sumina Shrestha		9	4
	B. R. Meenakshi		21	21

Men's doubles

	Semi-finals							Final
	Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas		21	21
	Muhammad Atique Rizwan Azam		17	13
								Rupesh Kumar K. T. Sanave Thomas		21	21
								Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody		16	10
	Thushara Edirisinghe Duminda Jayakody		21	16	21
	Akshay Dewalkar Jishnu Sanyal		13	21	16

Women's doubles

	Semi-finals							Final
	Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi		21	21
	Thilini Jayasinghe Chandrika de Silva		7	14
								Aparna Balan B. R. Meenakshi		21	21	12
								Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta		18	23	21
	Nadeesha Gayanthi Rasangi Ranatunge		10	10
	Shruti Kurien Jwala Gutta		21	21

Mixed doubles

	Semi-finals							Final
	Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta		19	21	21
	Waqas Ahmed Saima Manzoor		21	15	17
								Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta		21	21
								Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan		11	13
	Thushara Edirisinghe Chandrika de Silva		12	9
	Thomas Kurian Aparna Balan		21	21

References

1. "10th South Asian Games Colombo 2006: Badminton" (PDF). www.sacep.org. SACEP. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
2. "Anand, Murgunde to lead at SAF badminton". www.rediff.com. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
3. "'Our players are improving' – Badminton Manager Tony Perera". www.island.lk. 3 August 2006. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
4. "10th SA Game – 2006 Colombo, Sri Lanka". nocnepal.org.np. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
5. "X South Asian Games". www.sports.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
6. "SAF: Indian shuttlers move to semis". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 20 August 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

External links

• Individual semi-final results at pdfs.island.lk