2003 IBF World Championships

The 2003 IBF World Championships (World Badminton Championships) were held in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, United Kingdom, between 28 July and 3 August 2003. The championships had originally been planned to take place from 12 May-18 May, but were rescheduled following the international outbreak of SARS.^[1]

2003 IBF World Championships

Tournament details
Dates	28 July – 3 August
Edition	13th
Level	International
Venue	National Indoor Arena
Location	Birmingham, United Kingdom
← 2001 Seville 2005 Anaheim →

This edition also rewarded the points for the players to collected for the qualification to 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Host city selection

International Badminton Federation decided to split the IBF World Championships and the Sudirman Cup as separate tournaments starting from 2003. Canada, China, England, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands were the countries interested in hosting the tournaments.^[2] England later announced as host for the first standalone world championships.^[3]

Medalists

Medal table

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	3	3	5	11
2	Denmark	1	0	2	3
3	South Korea	1	0	1	2
4	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
6	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		5	5	10	20

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Xia Xuanze	Wong Choong Hann	Shon Seung-mo
			Bao Chunlai
Women's singles	Zhang Ning	Gong Ruina	Zhou Mi
			Mia Audina
Men's doubles	Lars Paaske Jonas Rasmussen	Candra Wijaya Sigit Budiarto	Sang Yang Zheng Bo
			Fu Haifeng Cai Yun
Women's doubles	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Wei Yili Zhao Tingting	Shizuka Yamamoto Seiko Yamada
			Rikke Olsen Ann-Lou Jørgensen
Mixed doubles	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min	Zhang Jun Gao Ling	Jonas Rasmussen Rikke Olsen
			Chen Qiqiu Zhao Tingting