SUPRIANTO TOPS WORLD BADMINTON MEN'S SINGLES RANKINGS
by the staff of YANG YANG Badminton Equipment

November 7, 1996 (New Shuttlenws) - Indonesian Joko Suprianto leads the world's badminton men's singles players in the October 29 rankings published by the International Badminton Federation.

Denmark's Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen sits in the second spot and is the top European in the rankings, just ahead of China's Dong Jiong.

Canadian Iain Sydie is the best of the Pan-Americas at number 38 while Murray Hocking of Australia leads the Oceania players at number 67. There are no players from Africa in the top 100.

The top 100 men's singles players are:

1. Joko Suprianto (Indonesia) - 319.59 points
2. Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen (Denmark) - 292.76
3. Dong Jiong (China) - 276.83
4. Rashid Sidek (Malaysia) - 273.10
5. Heryanto Arbi (Indonesia) - 253.93
6. Ong Ewe Hock (Malaysia) - 251.56
7. Sun Jun (China) - 241.28
8. Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Denmark) - 213.76
9. Allan Budi Kusuma (Indonesia) - 226.55
10. Park Sung Woo (Korea) - 206.10
11. Lee Kwang Jin (Korea) - 204.82
12. Ardy Wiranata (Indonesia) - 196.20
13. Fung Permadi (Chinese Taipei) - 193.52
14. Chen Gang (China) - 190.57
15. Hermawan Susanto (Indonesia) - 188.65
16. Hu Zhilan (China) - 181.79
17. Peter Rasmussen (Denmark) - 174.42
18. Rosobin Jeffer (Indonesia) - 174.28
19. Yu Lizhi (China) - 174.06
20. Lin Liwen (China) - 160.92
21. Peter Gade Christensen - 160.44
22. Kim Hak Kyun (Korea) - 160.22
23. Luo Yigang (China) - 149.73
24. Hendrawan (Indonesia) - 148.08
25. Jens Olsson (Sweden) - 147.39
26. Darren Hall (England) - 146.42
27. Indra Wijaya (Indonesia) - 146.04
28. Soren Nielsen (Denmark) - 139.24
29. Martin Lundgaard Hansen (Denmark) - 136.89
30. Budi Santoso (Indonesia) - 131.91
31. Pang Chen (Malaysia) - 131.38
32. Thomas Johansson (Sweden) - 131.00
33. Jeroen van Dijk (Netherlands) - 129.08
34. Oliver Pongratz (Germany) - 121.13
35. Kenneth Jonassen (Denmark) - 120.39
36. Peter Knowles (England) - 115.33
37. Dwi Aryanto (Indonesia) - 114.19
38. Iain Sydie (Canada) - 113.46
39. Rikard Magnusson (Sweden) - 113.06
40. Ahn Jae Chang (Korea) - 107.31
41. Hwang Sun Ho (Korea) - 104.76
42. Chris Bruil (Netherlands) - 101.32
43. George Rimarodi (Indonesia) - 100.22
44. Jesper Olsson (Sweden) - 98.45
45. Liu Ern-Horng (Chinese Taipei) - 98.29
46. Deepankar Bhattacharya (India) - 97.13
47. Colin Haughton (England) - 96.42
48. Andreij Antropov (Russia) - 96.36
49. Pavel Uvarov (Russia) - 91.31
50. Lo Ah Heng (Malaysia) - 90.84
51. Robert Liljequist (Finland) - 90.03)
52. Ismail Samad (Malaysia) - 89.08
53. Detlef Poste (Germany) - 88.37
54. Thomas Wapp (Switzerland) - 87.99
55. Joris van Soerland (Netherlands) - 87.90
56. Yong Hock Kin (Malaysia) - 87.56
57. Tam Kai Chuen (Hong Kong) - 87.45
58. Pontus Jantti (Finland) - 86.79
59. Anders Boesen (Denmark) - 85.82
60. Imay Hendra (Switzerland) - 85.65
61. Apichai Thiraratsakul (Thailand) - 84.99
62. Hans Sperre (Norway) - 83.81
63. Jim Laugesen (Denmark) - 83.15
64. Kitipon Kitikul (Thailand) - 83.06
65. Marleve Mainaky (Indonesia) - 82.88
66. Daniel Eriksson (Sweden) - 81.77
67. Murray Hocking (Australia) - 80.89
68. Fumihiko Machida (Japan) - 80.45
69. Martin Hagberg (Sweden) - 79.05
70. Henrik Bengtsson (Sweden) - 78.87
71. Salim (Indonesia) - 75.59
72. Bruce Flockhart (Scotland) - 72.99
73. Chang Jeng-Shyong (Chinese Taipei) - 72.75
74. Irwansyah (Indonesia) - 71.25
75. Peter Bush (England) - 70.99
76. Vladislav Tikhomirov (Russia) - 70.31
77. Thomas Sogaard (Denmark) - 68.98
78. Anders Nielsen (England) - 68.87
79. Boris Kessov (Bulgaria) - 68.86
80. Rasmus Wengberg (Sweden) - 68.33
81. Vladislav Druzchenko (Ukraine) - 67.80
82. Michael Beres (Canada) - 66.34
83. Darius Zieba (Poland) - 65.72
84. Natapol Sarawan (Thailand) - 65.18
85. Gerben Bruijstens (Netherlands) - 64.76
86. Xiao Ting (China) - 64.59
87. Xie Yangchun (China) - 64.43
88. Pedro Vanneste (Belgium) - 64.35
89. Jyri Aalto (Finland) - 63.65
90. M. Roslin Hashim (Malaysia) - 62.94)
91. Mikail Korchouk (Belarus) - 62.25
92. Kevin Han (USA) - 61.84
93. Tan Sian Peng (Singapore) - 61.81
94. Lasse Lindelof (Finland) - 60.72
95. Richard Vaughan (Wales) - 60.40
96. Peter Kreulitsch (Austria) - 60.16)
97. Jacek Niedzwiedzki (Poland) - 58.80
98. Marek Bujak (Germany) - 58.43
99. Jason Wong (Malaysia) - 58.34
100. Hannes Fuchs (Austria) - 57.32