Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The badminton tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 28 July and 5 August at Wembley Arena.

Badminton
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueWembley Arena
Dates28 July – 5 August
No. of events5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors172
Badminton at the
2012 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesmenwomenmixed

A total of 172 athletes competed in five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.[1] The women's doubles tournament was marred by several disqualifications during the group stage for unethical play.

All of the gold medals were won by players from China. The Chinese team also collected two silvers and one bronze, to top the medal table with eight in total. Denmark finished in second place, with one silver and one bronze won.

Competition format

For the first time there was a combination of group play and knockout stages in the Olympic badminton tournament, following its introduction at the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics in Singapore.

All matches were the best of three games, with each game won by the first player to reach 21 points. If the score reached 20–20, the winner was the first player to lead by two points. If the score reached 29–29, the player who won the next point won the match.

The draw for the groups was held on 23 July 2012.[2]

Qualification
Further information: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The Olympic qualification period was between 2 May 2011 and 29 April 2012, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, published on 3 May 2012, was used to allocate spots.[1] Nations could enter a maximum of three players. Three quota places if three players are ranked four or above, two if two players are ranked 16 or above and otherwise one quota place until the quota contingent of 38 is filled.

For each male player who qualifies in more than one discipline, an additional quota place in the men's singles becomes free. If no player from one continent can qualify, the best ranked player from this continent gets a quota place.[3]

Competition schedule
PPreliminaries RRound of 16 ¼Quarterfinals ½Semifinals FFinal
Date →Sat 28Sun 29Mon 30Tue 31Wed 1Thu 2Fri 3Sat 4Sun 5
Event ↓MAEMAEMAEMAEMAEMAEMAMAMA
Men's singlesPR¼½F
Men's doublesP¼½F
Mixed doublesP¼½F
Women's singlesPR¼½F
Women's doublesP¼½F
M = Morning session, A = Afternoon session, E = Evening session

Women's doubles disqualifications
Further information: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles

On 1 August 2012, four teams were ejected from the competition (Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na with Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung, both playing for South Korea, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia) for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" following round-robin matches the previous evening, during which the teams were accused of trying to lose in order to manipulate the draw.[4]

Medal summary

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China5218
2 Denmark0112
3 Japan0101
 Malaysia0101
5 India0011
 Russia0011
 South Korea0011
Totals (7 nations)55515

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
 Lin Dan
 China		 Lee Chong Wei
 Malaysia		 Chen Long
 China
Men's doubles
  Cai Yun
and Fu Haifeng (CHN)		  Mathias Boe
and Carsten Mogensen (DEN)		  Jung Jae-sung
and Lee Yong-dae (KOR)
Women's singles
Li Xuerui
 China		 Wang Yihan
 China		 Saina Nehwal
 India
Women's doubles
 Tian Qing
and Zhao Yunlei (CHN)		  Mizuki Fujii
and Reika Kakiiwa (JPN)		  Valeria Sorokina
and Nina Vislova (RUS)
Mixed doubles
 Zhang Nan
and Zhao Yunlei (CHN)		  Xu Chen
and Ma Jin (CHN)		  Joachim Fischer Nielsen
and Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

References
  1. "Olympics". Archived from the original on 7 August 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  2. "Draw announced for Olympic Badminton competition". london2012.com. 23 July 2012.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Olympics badminton: Eight players disqualified, BBC News, 1 August 2012; accessed 1 August 2012

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