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Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
event	Badminton
games	2012 Summer
image	Badminton, London 2012.png
image_size	150px
venue	Wembley Arena
dates	28 July – 5 August 2012
num_events	5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
competitors	172
prev	2008 Beijing
next	2016 Rio de Janeiro

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

A total of 172 athletes competed in five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. 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.

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. 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.

Competition schedule

Date →		colspan="3"	Sat 28		colspan="3"	Sun 29		colspan="3"	Mon 30		colspan="3"	Tue 31		colspan="3"	Wed 1		colspan="3"	Thu 2		colspan="2"	Fri 3		colspan="2"	Sat 4		colspan="2"	Sun 5	Event ↓		M		A		E		M		A		E		M		A		E		M		A		E		M		A		E		M		A		E		M		A		M		A		M		A
Men's singles	P
Men's doubles	P
Mixed doubles	P
Women's singles	P
Women's doubles	P

Women's doubles disqualifications

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.

Participation

A total of 172 badminton players from 51 Olympic Committees (NOCs) from the five Continental Confederations will participate at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Participating nations

Below is the list of NOCs participants in badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

AUS
AUT
BLR
BEL
BUL
CAN
CHN
CZE
DEN
EGY
EST
FIN
FRA
GER
GBR Host
GUA
HKG
ISL
IND
INA
IRL
ISR
ITA
JPN
LTU
MAS
MDV
MEX
NED
NOR
PER
POL
POR
RUS
SGP
SVK
SLO
RSA
KOR
ESP
SRI
SUR
SWE
SUI
TPE
THA
TUR
UGA
UKR
USA
VIE

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

Mixed doubles
Zhang Nan
Zhao Yunlei	Xu Chen
Ma Jin	Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Christinna Pedersen

Results

Men's singles

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles

Women's singles

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles

Men's doubles

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles

References

"Olympics".
Rutherford, Peter. (2012-08-05). "Badminton: China sweeps golds after doubles win". Reuters.
(23 July 2012). "Draw announced for Olympic Badminton competition". london2012.com.
"Archived copy".
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/19072677 Olympics badminton: Eight players disqualified], [[BBC News]], 1 August 2012; accessed 1 August 2012

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