Sigit Budiarto

Sigit Budiarto
Personal information
CountryIndonesia
Born (1975-11-24) 24 November 1975
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
HandednessRight
CoachHerry Iman Pierngadi
Men's doubles
Highest ranking1
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Indonesia
World Championships
1997 GlasgowMen's doubles
2005 AnaheimMen's doubles
2003 BirminghamMen's doubles
World Cup
2005 YiyangMen's doubles
1996 JakartaMen's doubles
1997 YogyakartaMen's doubles
Sudirman Cup
2005 BeijingMixed team
2001 SevilleMixed team
2003 EindhovenMixed team
1997 GlasgowMixed team
Thomas Cup
2002 GuangzhouMen's team
2000 Kuala LumpurMen's team
1998 Hong KongMen's team
Asian Games
2002 BusanMen's team
Asian Championships
2004 Kuala LumpurMen's doubles
2002 BangkokMen's doubles
1996 SurabayaMen's doubles
Asia Cup
1997 JakartaMen's team
2001 SingaporeMen's team
Southeast Asian Games
2001 Kuala LumpurMen's doubles
1997 JakartaMen's doubles
1997 JakartaMen's team
2001 Kuala LumpurMen's team
World Junior Championships
1992 JakartaMen's doubles
BWF profile

Sigit Budiarto (born 24 November 1975) is a male badminton player from Indonesia noted for his reflexes and deft handling of the racket. A men's doubles specialist, he won numerous international titles between 1995 and 2005, most of them in partnership with Candra Wijaya. He was a member of Indonesia's world champion Thomas Cup (men's international) teams of 1998, 2000 and 2002. Budiarto shared the World Men's Doubles title with Wijaya in 1997 and they were runners-up in this event in 2003 and 2005. They claimed the prestigious All-England Championship in 2003. Among other titles, Budiarto has won doubles at the Asian Championships (in 2004 with Trikus Haryanto), and at the French (1995), Indonesia (1997, 2001); Malaysia (2001, 2005); China (1996, 2004, 2005); Japan (2001); and Singapore (1997, 1998, 2005, 2006) Opens.

In 1998, Budiarto received a two-year doping ban for taking the anabolic steroid nandrolone.