The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Team Championships for Women, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956-1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contested every two years since 1984 when its scheduled times and venues were merged with those of Thomas Cup, the world men's team championship. The Uber Cup is named after a former British women's badminton player, Betty Uber, who in 1950 had the idea of hosting a women's event similar to that of the men .^[1] She also made the draw for the 1956-1957 inaugural tournament, which took place at Lytham St. Annes in Lancashire, England.^[2]

The cup follows a similar format to that of the men's competition of the Thomas Cup. After the twenty second tournament 2008 China is the most successful team, having lifted the trophy eleven times. Japan is second, having won it five times, followed by Indonesia and United States, each with three cups.

The 2010 Uber Cup was contested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2012 tournament will be held in Wuhan, China from May 20–27, 2012.^[3]

Trophy[link]

The Uber Cup trophy was officially presented at the annual general meeting in 1956, the year the first Uber Cup tournament was first held.^[2] It was made by Mappin & Webb, prominent silversmiths on Regent Street in London. The trophy is 20 inches high with a rotating globe on top of a plinth and a female player standing on top of a shuttlecock.^[1]

Results[link]

Uber Cup summaries[link]

1957 - 1981[link]

Year	Host		Final
			Winner	Score	Runner-up
1957 Details	Lancashire, England		United States	6–1	Denmark
1960 Details	Philadelphia, United States		United States	5–2	Denmark
1963 Details	Wilmington, United States		United States	4–3	England
1966 Details	Wellington, New Zealand		Japan	5–2	United States
1969 Details	Tokyo, Japan		Japan	6–1	Indonesia
1972 Details	Tokyo, Japan		Japan	6–1	Indonesia
1975 Details	Jakarta, Indonesia		Indonesia	5–2	Japan
1978	Auckland, New Zealand		Japan	5–2	Indonesia
1981	Tokyo, Japan		Japan	6–3	Indonesia

1984 - 1988[link]

Year	Host		Final				Third Place
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1984 Details	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		China	5–0	England		Korea	5–0	Denmark
1986 Details	Jakarta, Indonesia		China	3–2	Indonesia		Korea	3–2	Japan
1988 Details	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		China	5–0	Korea		Indonesia	5–0	Japan

1990 onwards[link]

Year	Host		Final				Semi-finalists
			Winner	Score	Runner-up
1990 Details	Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan		China	3–2	Korea		Indonesia	Japan
1992 Details	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		China	3–2	Korea		Sweden	Indonesia
1994 Details	Jakarta, Indonesia		Indonesia	3–2	China		Sweden	Korea
1996 Details	Hong Kong		Indonesia	4–1	China		Korea	Denmark
1998 Details	Hong Kong, China SAR		China	4–1	Indonesia		Denmark	Korea
2000 Details	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		China	3–0	Denmark		Korea	Indonesia
2002 Details	Guangzhou, China		China	3–1	Korea		Netherlands	Hong Kong
2004 Details	Jakarta, Indonesia		China	3–1	Korea		Denmark	Japan
2006 Details	Sendai & Tokyo, Japan		China	3–0	Netherlands		Germany	Chinese Taipei
2008 Details	Jakarta, Indonesia		China	3–0	Indonesia		Korea	Germany
2010 Details	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		Korea	3–1	China		Japan	Indonesia
2012 Details	Wuhan, China		China	3–0	Korea		Thailand	Japan

Successful national teams[link]

So far, only 5 countries have won the Uber Cup with China the most successful team with 12 titles, followed by Japan (5 titles), Indonesia (3 titles), United States (3 titles) and Korea (1 title). The Uber Cup has only crossed the shores of two continents so far: Asia and North America.

Eight teams have made it into the finals. The finalists other than 5 winner countries above are Denmark, England and the Netherlands. Sweden, Germany and Chinese Taipei are the other three teams which have made it into the final four.

Teams	Titles	Runners-up
China	12 (1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002*, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012*)	3 (1994, 1996, 2010)
Japan	5 (1966, 1969*, 1972*, 1978, 1981*)	1 (1975)
Indonesia	3 (1975*, 1994*, 1996)	7 (1969, 1972, 1978, 1981, 1986*, 1998, 2008*)
United States	3 (1957, 1960*, 1963*)	1 (1966)
Korea	1 (2010)	6 (1988, 1990, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2012)
Denmark		3 (1957, 1960, 2000)
England		2 (1963, 1984)
Netherlands		1 (2006)

* = hosts

Team appearances at the final stages[link]

The map shows countries that qualified for the final stages of the Uber Cup

As of 2012^[update], twenty-one teams were qualified in the whole history of the competition for the final stages of the Uber Cup. Asia is the continent with most teams at ten, followed by Europe with six. Americas and Oceania have each had two teams that qualified while South Africa is the only team that has qualified from Africa.

References[link]

External links[link]

• BWF: Uber Cup
• Uber Cup statistics

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Look up uber or uber- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Uber may refer to:

• Über, a German word meaning "above", "over" or "across"

People[link]

• Alexander Uber (1783 – 1824), a German cello virtuoso, composer, and Kapellmeister
• Betty Uber (1906 – 1983), an English badminton player
• Christian Benjamin Uber (1746 – 1812) was a German jurist and composer
• Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, (1781 – 1822), a German composer

Companies[link]

• Uber (company), a startup company in San Francisco, California

Media and entertainment[link]

• Uber, short for Uberfic, a kind of alternative universe fan fiction
• Uber Bear, a character in the video game Fur Fighters
• Uber Catacomb Snatch, a video game by UberSoft Technologies
• Uber Geek, the fourth studio album by Luke Ski
• Uber Girl, an annual modelling competition held in various countries across the world

Other uses[link]

• Betula uber, a tree species
• Uber Cup, a badminton tournament

See also[link]

• Über (disambiguation), the English-language homonym of Uber

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Look up cup in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A cup is any of a variety of drinkware used to consume food or beverage. Cup or cups may also refer to:

In archaeology

• For Cup and ring marks, the cup refers to a type of carved hole in petroglyphs

In cooking:

• Measuring cup, a measuring instrument for liquids and powders, used primarily in cooking
• Cup (unit), a customary unit of volume and measure.
• A type of traditional English punch

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• The cup of a brassiere, the part that covers the breasts
• A protective cup in a jockstrap designed to protect the male genitalia

In mathematics, science and technology:

• Silphium perfoliatum or "Cup-plant", a member of the sunflower family, native to North America
• The cup product in algebraic topology, denoted by the operator Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \smile

• Common Unix Printing System, commonly known as CUPS, a Unix print server
• Cup (volume), a customary unit of volume

In music:

• "Cups", a song by Underworld

In other contexts:

• Fuddling cup, a three dimensional puzzle
• A cup-shaped trophy or sports winning prize, e.g. World Cup, Davis Cup or League Cup
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• The Suit of Cups, one of the four traditional suits of the Italian suited Tarot deck or of Latin suited playing cards
• A object the general shape of a drinking cup and capable of holding fluid, whether it holds a cup (measure) or not.

See also[link]

• Stemware
• The Cup (disambiguation)
• CUP (disambiguation)

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Qin Yiyuan (simplified Chinese: 秦艺源; traditional Chinese: 秦藝源; pinyin: Qín Yìyuán; born February 14, 1973) is a Chinese former world level women's badminton player.

Career[link]

A doubles specialist, Qin played internationally for China from the mid 1990s through the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, a period during which her fellow countrywomen Ge Fei and Gu Jun dominated international women's doubles play. Qin won women's doubles at the 1997 Thailand Open with Tang Yongshu, at the 1998 Denmark Open with Tang Hetian, and at the 1999 Thailand, French, and Denmark Opens, and 2000 Swiss Open with Gao Ling. She was a bronze medalist at the 1995 IBF World Championships and a silver medalist at the 1997 IBF World Championships with Tang Yongshu. She earned a bronze medal again at the 1999 edition of the tourney with Gao Ling. Qin also earned bronze medals for women's doubles at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, the first with Tang Yongshu and the second with Gao. She was a member of Chinese teams which captured the Uber Cup (women's world team competition and trophy) in 1998 and 2000.

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Tang Yongshu (Chinese: 唐永淑; born December 23, 1975) is a Chinese female badminton player who competed internationally in the 1990s.

Career[link]

Specializing in women's doubles, Tang earned a bronze medal at the 1995 IBF World Championships and a silver medal at the 1997 IBF World Championships with her regular partner, Qin Yiyuan. Tang and Qin were also bronze medalists at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, yet they were overshadowed by fellow countrywomen Ge Fei and Gu Jun, the dominant women's doubles team of the day, who took gold at the latter two events. Tang won women's doubles at the 1995 Canadian Open in an unusual partnership with South Korea's Gil Young-ah (as players on the Chinese national squad rarely partner with foreign players). Tang and Qin won women's doubles at the 1997 Thailand Open and played together on the Chinese team that reclaimed the Uber Cup (women's world team championship trophy) from Indonesia in 1998.

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