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Credit: BWF
Hall of Fame: Honour for Bang Soo Hyun
Date: 5/24/2019 8:45 AM
Published by : Press Release by BWF
Former Olympic gold medallist Bang Soo Hyun of Korea was inducted into the BWF Hall of Fame last night.

The award was presented at a gala dinner during the Badminton World Federation’s Annual General Meeting in Nanning, China, yesterday.

Bang Soo Hyun was one of the leading women’s singles players of the 1990s. The high point of her career came at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games after winning silver four years earlier in Barcelona.

She won a number of other individual tournaments, besides guiding Korea to two Sudirman Cup titles.

In the year following her Olympic gold medal, she retired from competition but continued to be actively involved in badminton by coaching school children and the Pan Am junior team.

Since 2000, she has been engaged with Korean broadcaster MPC TV as Badminton Programme Commentator. She has received several awards from the Korean government, including the Korean President’s Award in 1998.

Bang Soo Hyun served as a BWF Council Member from 2005 to 2009.

Bang joins six of her compatriots in BWF’s Hall of Fame. Interestingly, she received the award from BWF President Poul-Erik Høyer, who was the men's singles gold medallist at the 1996 Olympics.

Three other badminton personalities were awarded BWF’s prestigious service awards: Ronny de Vos (Belgium) received the Distinguished Service Award, while Ranjit de Silva (Sri Lanka) and Jean-Guy Poitras (Canada) were named for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ronny de Vos started umpiring for Belgium and Badminton Europe 20 years ago and has served BWF at the highest level. He has officiated at the Olympics, the World Championships, and the Thomas & Uber Cup.

Ranjit de Silva’s service to badminton with Sri Lanka and Zambia spans 50 years. He spent 18 years guiding badminton development in Zambia, and went on to work with the BWF

Council for ten years. His biggest contribution was to the Constitution & Ethics Working Group.

Jean-Guy Poitras had a career of more than four decades as an international Technical Official, working for Pan Am and BWF. His career in the chair spanned the very first match in the first Pan Am Championships in 1977, through three Commonwealth Games, and medal matches at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

He later served as BWF Umpire Assessor from 2003 to 2016 and chaired the BWF Umpire Assessors Panel from 2004 to 2016. He contributed a great deal to the current high standard of BWF umpires and the education system now in place for umpires.

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