OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS STILL TOP WORLD BADMINTON WOMEN'S DOUBLES RANKINGS
by the staff of YANG YANG Badminton Equipment

November 7, 1996 (New Shuttlenws) - Olympic champions Ge Fei and Gu Jun of China continue to lead the world's badminton women's doubles players in the October 29 rankings published by the International Badminton Federation.

Olympic silver medalists Gil Young Ah and Jang Hye Ock from Korea sit in the second spot, just ahead of Indonesias Eliza and Rosiana Zelin.

The top European team is the Danish pair of Helene Kirkegaard and Rikke Olsen at number 4, while Rhona Robertson and Tammy Jenkins of New Zealand lead the players from Oceania at number 25.

The Canadian sibling pair of Elma and Moira Ong are the best from the Pan-Americas at number 27, coincidentally just behind another pair of siblings, Aiko and Akiko Miyamura of Japan.

There are no pairs from Africa in the top 50.

The top 50 women's doubles teams are:

1. Ge Fei/Gu Jun (China) - 329.31
2. Gil Young Ah/Jang Hye Ock (Korea) - 309.42
3. Eliza/Rosiana Zelin (Indonesia) - 296.65
4. Helene Kirkegaard/Rikke Olsen (Denmark) - 279.96
5. Indarti Isoliana/Denyana Lomban (Indonesia) - 270.84
6. Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen/Marlene Thomsen (Denmark) - 263.35
7. Qin Yiyuan/Tang Yongshu (China) - 249.90
8. Julie Bradbury/Joanne Wright (England) - 220.75
9. Lotte Olsen/Ann Jorgensen (Denmark) - 215.58
10. Chen Ying/Peng Xingyong (China) - 203.12
11. Christine Gandrup/Marina Andrievskaya (Sweden) - 198.75
12. Eline Coene/Erica van den Heuvel (Netherlands) - 195.38
13. Kim Mee Hyang/Kim Shin Young (Korea) - 186.13
14. Tomomi Matsuo/Masako Sakamoto (Japan) - 172.18
15. Nicola Beck/Joanne Davies (England) - 164.04
16. Lili Tampi/Finarsih (Indonesia) - 163.95
17. Park Soo Yun/Chung Jae Hee (Korea) - 158.03
18. Ann Jorgensen/Majken Vange (Denmark) - 153.75
19. Maria Bengtsson/Margit Borg (Sweden) - 153.21
20. Joanne Muggeridge (England)/Kelly Morgan (Wales) - 149.44
21. Diana Koleva/Neli Nedjalkova (Bulgaria) - 148.25
22. Elena Rybkhina/Marina Yakusheva (Russia) - 143.60
23. Katrin Schmidt/Kerstin Ubben (Germany) - 142.06
24. Nicole van Hooren/Brenda Conijn (Netherlands) - 139.57
25. Rhona Robertson/Tammy Jenkins (New Zealand) - 138.08
26. Aiko and Akiko Miyamura (Japan) - 131.13
27. Elma and Moira Ong (Canada) - 122.42
28. Elena Nosdran/Victoria Evtoushenko (Ukraine) - 112.07
29. Rhonda Cator/Amanda Hardy (Australia) - 110.51
30. Nadezhda Chervjakova/Ella Karachkova (Russia) - 107.94
31. Emma Chaffin/Sara Hardaker (England) - 107.21
32. Tanja Berg/Mette Pedersen (Denmark) - 106.19
33. Gitte Jansson/Mette Schjoldager (Denmark) - 105.08
34. Denyse Julien/Sian Deng (Canada) - 104.96
35. Tung Chau Man/Ng Ching (Hong Kong) - 100.22
36. Vlada Tcherniavskaia/Tatiana Gerassimovitch (Belarus) - 98.48
37. Liu Yufang/Sun Jian (China) - 98.22
38. Park Soo Yun/Kim Shin Young (Korea) - 96.00
39. Silvia Albrecht/Santi Wibowo (Switzerland) - 89.01
40. Robbyn Hermitage/Milaine Cloutier (Canada) - 88.39
41. Elinor Middlemiss/Jillian Haldane (Scotland) - 86.27
42. Amparo Lim/Kennie Asuncion (Philippines) - 83.67
43. Chen Li-Chin/Tsai Huey-Min (Chinese Taipei) - 82.67
44. Majken Vange/Pernille Harder (Denmark) - 81.38
45. Wang Li/Qiang Hong (China) - 80.91
46. Andrea Dako/Adrienn Kocsis (Hungary) - 74.00
47. Linda French/Erika von Heiland (USA) - 72.84
48. Qiang Hong/Liu Lu (China) - 70.50
49. Haruko Matsuda/Shinobu Sasaki (Japan) - 69.39
50. Hisako Mizui/Yasuko Mizui (Japan) - 69.09