HERYANTO AND TIMUR GRAB TOP SPOT IN BADMINTON MIXED DOUBLES RANKINGS
by the staff of YANG YANG Badminton Equipment

November 7, 1996 (New Shuttlenws) - Indonesians Trikus Heryanto and Minarti Timur have taken over the top spot among the world's badminton mixed doubles players from Park Joo Bong and Ra Kyung Min of Korea in the October 29 rankings published by the International Badminton Federation.

Park has retired again after the Olympic competition and the Park and Ra combination will continue to drop in the standings as their accumulated points lose their value in the ranking system over time.

The top European team is the Danish pair of Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen at number 4, while Canadians Daryl Yung and Denyse Julien lead the players from the Pan-Americas at number 24.

The Australia pair of Peter Blackburn and Rhinda Cator are the best from the Oceania area at number 25.

There are no pairs from Africa in the top 50.

The top 50 mixed doubles teams are:

1. Trikus Heryanto/Minarti Timur (Indonesia) - 300.65
2. Park Joo Bong/Ra Kyung Min (Korea) - 286.39
3. Nimpele Flandy/Rosalina Riseu (Indonesia) - 271.84
4. Michael Sogaard/Rikke Olsen (Denmark) - 259.99
5. Chen Xingdong/Peng Xingyong (China) - 241.64
6. Kim Dong Moon/Gil Young Ah (Korea) - 226.56
7. Thomas Stavngaard/Ann Jorgensen (Denmark) - 221.35
8. Simon Archer/Julie Bradbury (England) - 220.71
9. Nick Ponting/Joanne Goode (England) - 219.48
10. Jan-Eric Antonsson/Astrid Crabo (Sweden) - 202.92
11. Ha Tae Kwon/Kim Shin Young (Korea) - 201.96
12. Liu Jianjun/Sun Man (China) - 197.46
13. Peter Axelsson/Catrine Bengtsson (Sweden) - 181.98
14. Chris Hunt (England)/Helene Kirkegaard (Denmark) - 169.50
15. Ron Michels/Erica van den Heuvel (Netherlands) - 157.23
16. Nikolaj Zuev/Marina Yakusheva (Russia) - 149.84
17. Tao Xiaoqiang/Wang Xiaoyuan (China) - 132.93
18. Jens Eriksen/Helene Kirkegaard (Denmark) - 125.50
19. He Yiming/Chan Oi Ni (Hong Kong) - 121.78
20. Jesper Larsen/Majken Vange (Denmark) - 114.34
21. Christian Jakobsen/Lotte Olsen (Denmark) - 109.14
22. Michael Keck/Karen Stechmann (Germany) - 107.63
23. Vladislav Druzchenko/Victoria Evtoushenko (Ukraine) - 105.15
24. Darryl Yung/Denyse Julien (Canada) - 102.38
25. Peter Blackburn/Rhonda Cator (Australia) - 100.35
26. Imam Tohari/Erma Ermawati (Indonesia) - 97.31
27. Svetoslav Stojanov/Diana Koleva (Bulgaria) - 95.72
28. Chris Hunt/Gillian Gowers (England) - 93.84
29. Seiichi Watanabe/Tomomi Matsuo (Japan) - 87.51
30. Stephan Kuhl/Nicol Pitro (Germany) - 85.88
31. Kai Mitteldorf/Katrin Schmidt (Germany) - 83.40
32. Murray Hocking/Lisa Campbell (Australia) - 81.90
33. Andrej Pohar/Maja Pohar (Slovenia) - 79.77
34. Quinten van dalm/Nicole van Hooren (Netherlands) - 79.06
35. Sandiarto/Indarti Isoliana (Indonesia) - 74.25
36. Park Joo Bong/Shim Eun Jung (Korea) - 73.15
37. Kenny Middlemiss/Elinor Middlemiss (Scotland) - 67.29
38. Vitalij Shmakov/Vlada Tcherniavskaia (Belarus) - 66.39
39. James Anderson/Emma Chaffin (England) - 66.09
40. Trond Waland/Camilla Silwer (Norway) - 61.48
41. Hugo Rodrigues/Ana Ferreira (Portugal) - 59.59
42. Paul Stevenson/Amanda Hardy (Australia) - 59.33
43. Julian Robertson/Lorraine Cole (England) - 57.70
44. Chan Siu Kwong/Tung Chau Man (Hong Kong) - 56.04
45. Andreij Antropov/Ella Karachkova (Russia) - 54.75
46. Manuel Dubrulle/Virginie Delvingt (France) - 54.54
47. Norio Imai/Masako Sakamoto (Japan) - 54.45
48. Liu Yong/Gao Qian (China) - 54.00
49. Manuel Dubrulle/Sandrine Lefevre (France) - 53.88
50. Jonas Rasmussen/Ann-Lou Jorgensen (Denmark) - 53.38