Liem Swie King

Liem Swie King, born on 28 February 1956 in Kudus Regency, Central Java, is an Indonesian badminton player who excelled from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s and was one of the leading singles players of his era. He won the All England men's singles title in 1978, 1979 and 1981 during a six year run to the finals of that tournament, and was runner-up at the World Championships in 1980 and 1983. He was the first men's singles world number one when the IBF released its first ranking in 1978. Spotted at 14 by the owner of the Djarum Badminton Club, he became known as King Smash for the jumping smash he popularised. A member of the Thomas Cup winning Indonesian teams of 1976, 1979 and 1984, he won World Championships bronze in men's doubles in 1985 and retired from badminton in 1988.