Lius Pongoh

Pongoh played singles at a world class level in the 1980s. At nineteen he was a bronze medalist at the 1980 IBF World Championships in Jakarta, losing in the semifinals to fellow countryman Liem Swie King.^[1] On the international badminton circuit Pongoh's wins included the Swedish (1981), Indonesia (1984), and Chinese Taipei (1985) Opens, the 1981 Copenhagen Cup (forerunner of the Copenhagen Masters), and the 1982 Indian Masters. He won men's doubles at the 1981 Japan Open with doubles maestro Christian Hadinata where he was also runner-up in singles to the great Rudy Hartono.^[2][3][4][5]

Pongoh played second singles for the Indonesian Thomas Cup (men's international) teams of 1982 and 1986, both of which suffered the narrowest of final round losses to arch-rival China. He dropped both of his matches in the '82 series final, but won his only match (under a revised best of five match format) in the '86 series.

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
1980	Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia	Liem Swie King	3–15, 3–15	Bronze	[6]

The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
1981	Copenhagen Cup	Hadiyanto	15–10, 15–9	Winner	[7]
1981	Swedish Open	Morten Frost	18–14, 15–3	Winner
1981	Japan Open	Rudy Hartono	9–15, 8–15	Runner-up	[8]
1982	India Open	Icuk Sugiarto	15–12, 15–5	Winner
1982	Indonesia Open	Icuk Sugiarto	9–15, 8–15	Runner-up	[9]
1984	Indonesia Open	Hastomo Arbi	15–5, 10–15, 15–13	Winner
1984	Victor Cup	Darren Hall	15–4, 15–3	Winner
1985	Chinese Taipei Open	Prakash Padukone	5–15, 15–9, 15–10	Winner
1985	Scandinavian Open	Morten Frost	5–15, 8–15	Runner-up
1988	Indonesia Open	Icuk Sugiarto	6–15, 4–15	Runner-up	[10]
1988	Chinese Taipei Open	Icuk Sugiarto	8–15, 11–15	Runner-up	[11]
1988	US Open	Sze Yu	15–11, 5–15, 16–17	Runner-up

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
1981	Japan Open	Christian Hadinata	Flemming Delfs Prakash Padukone	15–4, 15–5	Winner
1982	Denmark Open	Christian Hadinata	Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo	9–15, 15–11, 16–18	Runner-up
1982	Swedish Open	Christian Hadinata	Thomas Kihlström Stefan Karlsson	15–11, 15–8	Winner
1987	Canadian Open	Richard Mainaky	Lee Deuk-choon Lee Sang-bok	15–11, 8–15, 13–15	Runner-up
1988	US Open	Christian Hadinata	Liem Swie King Prakash Padukone	7–15, 15–11, 15–13	Winner

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