Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Badminton
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Badminton ; at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	National Exhibition Centre
Dates	29 July – 8 August 2022
Competitors	151 from 29 nations
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Badminton was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the fifteenth staging of badminton at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically.

The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across six events.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:^[1]^[2]

G	Preliminary matches (group)	P	Preliminary matches (knockout)	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

Date Event	Fri 29			Sat 30			Sun 31		Mon 1		Tue 2		Wed 3		Thu 4		Fri 5		Sat 6		Sun 7		Mon 8
Session →	M	A	E	M	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	M	E	M	E	A	E	A	E	M	E	M
Men's singles													P		P		P		¼		½	B	F
Men's doubles															P		P			¼	½	B	F
Women's singles													P		P		P		¼		½	B	F
Women's doubles													P				P			¼	½	B	F
Mixed doubles													P		P		P		¼		½	B	F
Mixed team	G			G			¼		½		B	F

Venue

The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull.^[3] Five other sports – boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting – also took place there.^[4]

Qualification (mixed team)

All nations were able to enter whoever they wish (up to five men and five women overall) in the singles and doubles events.

In addition, sixteen nations were also entitled to contest the mixed team event; subject to at least four CGF regions being represented and a minimum entry of two men / two women per team, they qualify as follows:^[5]^[6]

The host nation.
The top 14 nations in the BWF World Ranking as of 1 February 2022, excluding the host nation. Their highest-ranked players in each of the five individual rankings are added together to determine the combined ranking.
One nation not already qualified receives a CGF/BWF Bipartite Invitation.

Means of qualification	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host nation	—	1	England
BWF World Ranking	1 February 2022	14	India Malaysia Canada Singapore Scotland Australia ~~Nigeria~~^[a] ~~New Zealand~~^[a] Sri Lanka Mauritius South Africa Maldives Uganda Jamaica Barbados Zambia
Bipartite invitation	8 March 2022	1	Pakistan
TOTAL		16

Note

^ ^a ^b Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.

In contrast to other sports with a qualifying system, all badminton player selections came from their nations' open allocation quotas regardless of mixed team qualification.

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (England)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Lakshya Sen India	Ng Tze Yong Malaysia	Srikanth Kidambi India
Men's doubles details	India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	England Ben Lane Sean Vendy	Malaysia Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik

Women's singles details	P. V. Sindhu India	Michelle Li Canada	Yeo Jia Min Singapore
Women's doubles details	Malaysia Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan	England Chloe Birch Lauren Smith	India Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand

Mixed doubles details	Singapore Terry Hee Tan Wei Han	England Marcus Ellis Lauren Smith	Malaysia Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing
Mixed team details	Malaysia Ng Tze Yong Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik Goh Jin Wei Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan Chan Peng Soon Cheah Yee See Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing	India Lakshya Sen Srikanth Kidambi B. Sumeeth Reddy Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty P. V. Sindhu Aakarshi Kashyap Gayatri Gopichand Treesa Jolly Ashwini Ponnappa	Singapore Loh Kean Yew Jason Teh Terry Hee Tan Wei Han Loh Kean Hean Andy Kwek Yeo Jia Min Jin Yujia Crystal Wong Nur Insyirah Khan

Participating nations

There were 29 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in badminton with a total of 151 (78 men and 73 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[7]

Australia (10)
Barbados (4)
Cameroon (2)
Canada (8)
Cyprus (2)
England (10)
Falkland Islands (9)
Guernsey (4)
Ghana (5)
Guyana (2)
India (10)
Isle of Man (1)
Jamaica (4)
Kenya (2)
Malaysia (10)
Maldives (6)
Malta (2)
Mauritius (8)
New Zealand (2)
Northern Ireland (1)
Pakistan (4)
Saint Helena (1)
Scotland (9)
Sierra Leone (2)
Singapore (10)
South Africa (5)
Sri Lanka (6)
Uganda (8)
Zambia (4)

References

^ ^a ^b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Competition Schedule | Badminton (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 10, 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ "NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". The NEC. 19 October 2018. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ "Venues | THE NEC". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ "CGF Sport Update" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport. 25 May 2022. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
^ Athlete Allocation System | Badminton Team (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / BWF. 1 October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ "Badminton Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

External links

[mtq-7] Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.

[btschedule-1] "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[schedulepdf-2] Competition Schedule | Badminton (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 10, 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[3] "NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". The NEC. 19 October 2018. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[4] "Venues | THE NEC". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[5] "CGF Sport Update" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport. 25 May 2022. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

[6] Athlete Allocation System | Badminton Team (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / BWF. 1 October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[8] "Badminton Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

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