Hastomo Arbi

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Hastomo Arbi
Personal information
Birth name Hastomo Arbi
Country  Indonesia
Born (1958-08-05) August 5, 1958 (age 65)
Kudus, Central Java
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Men's singles

Hastomo Arbi (born 5 August 1958, in Kudus, Central Java) is a retired male badminton player from Indonesia.

He was active as an international level player from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. He is the older brother of Hariyanto Arbi, an Indonesian player of the 1990s who won men's singles at the 1995 IBF World Championships and Eddy Hartono who was a silver medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Arbi, who developed his game at PB Djarum, is best remembered for helping Indonesia regain the Thomas Cup (men's world team championship) from China in 1984 by upsetting China's Han Jian in the second singles match. In 1979 he won men's singles at the Southeast Asian Games. In 2015, the 26th, in the category 55 years, he is the world champion in the world senior championship at Helsinborg in Sweden.

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