2006 Thomas & Uber Cup

The 2006 Thomas & Uber Cup was held from 28 April to 7 May in Sendai and Tokyo, Japan. It was the 24th tournament of Thomas Cup and 21st tournament of Uber Cup, men's and women's badminton tournaments.

Sendai hosted all of the group stage and play-off matches while Tokyo hosted the event starting from the quarter-finals until the final.

This was first time the Thomas & Uber Cup was played with a three-game 21-point scoring system.

China emerged as champions of both tournaments after beating Denmark and Netherlands in the men's and women's competitions respectively.

Host city selection Japan, which was competing with Indonesia and the United States for hosting the 2004 Thomas and Uber Cup finals, was awarded with this event.

Venues Sendai Gymnasium Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Teams

The following nations from five continents, shown by region, qualified for the 2006 Thomas & Uber Cup. Of the sixteen nations, defending champion of both tournaments China and host Japan qualified automatically and did not play the qualification round.

Thomas & Uber Cup China England Germany Japan Korea New Zealand United States South Africa

Thomas Cup Denmark India Indonesia Malaysia

Uber Cup Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Netherlands Singapore

Medal summary Medalists Thomas Cup Lin Dan Chen HongBao ChunlaiChen JinXia XuanzeCai YunFu HaifengXie ZhongboGuo ZhendongZheng Bo Peter Gade Kenneth JonassenNiels Christian KaldauJoachim PerssonJens EriksenMartin Lundgaard HansenJonas RasmussenLars PaaskeMathias BoeCarsten Mogensen Taufik HidayatSony Dwi KuncoroSimon SantosoMarkus WijanuCandra WijayaSigit BudiartoAlvent YuliantoLuluk HadiyantoMarkis KidoHendra Setiawan Lee Chong Wei Wong Choong HannMuhammad Hafiz HashimKuan Beng HongChan Chong MingKoo Kien KeatChoong Tan FookLee Wan WahChew Choon EngTan Boon Heong Uber Cup Zhang NingXie Xingfang Jiang YanjiaoLu LanGao LingHuang SuiYang WeiZhang JiewenYu YangDu Jing Mia Audina Yao JieJudith MeulendijksRachel van CutsenKarina de WitPaulien van DooremalenGinny Severien Xu Huaiwen Juliane SchenkPetra OverzierNicole GretherCarina MetteBirgit OverzierKathrin PiotrowskiSandra MarinelloMichaela Peiffer Cheng Shao-chieh Chien Yu-chinHuang Chia-hsinPai Min-jieHung Shih-chiehChou Chia-chiCheng Wen-hsingKu Pei-ting

Medal table

Thomas Cup

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Uber Cup

Group stage

Group W

Group X

Group Y

Group Z