The 2023 BWF World Championships (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 21 to 27 August 2023 in Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark.^[1] Copenhagen hosted the BWF World Championships for the fifth time.

Host city selection

Copenhagen was awarded the event in November 2018 during the announcement of 18 major badminton event hosts from 2019 to 2025.^[2]

Competition schedule

The tournament holds over a 7-day period.^[1]

Point distribution

Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the World Championships event.^[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Denmark)

2023 BWF World Championships medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	0	1	4
2	China	1	1	4	6
3	Thailand	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	0	1	2	3
5	Denmark*	0	1	1	2
6	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
8	India	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		5	5	10	20

Medalists

Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	Kodai Naraoka	Prannoy H. S.
			Anders Antonsen
Women's singles details	An Se-young	Carolina Marín	Chen Yufei
			Akane Yamaguchi
Men's doubles details	Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik
			Liang Weikeng Wang Chang
Women's doubles details	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Apriyani Rahayu Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti	Zhang Shuxian Zheng Yu
			Kim So-yeong Kong Hee-yong
Mixed doubles details	Seo Seung-jae Chae Yoo-jung	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin
			Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino

Qualifiers

Number of participants

Nation		MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total	Number of players
Africa	Egypt	1	1			1	3	2
	Mauritius	1			1		2	3
	Nigeria	1					1	1
	South Africa			1	1		2	4
Asia	China	4	4	4	3	3	18	28
	Chinese Taipei	2	3	3	3	2	13	19
	Hong Kong	2			2	2	6	10
	India	3	1	1	2	2	9	14
	Indonesia	2	2	4	3	3	14	24
	Japan	3	2	2	4	4	15	25
	Jordan	1					1	1
	Kazakhstan	1					1	1
	Malaysia	2	2	3	3	3	13	22
	Maldives				1	1	2	3
	Myanmar		1				1	1
	Philippines			1		1	2	3
	Singapore	2	2	1	1	1	7	10
	South Korea	1	2	1	2	2	8	12
	Thailand	2	3	2	1	2	10	14
	Vietnam	1	1				2	2
Europe	Austria	1			1	1	3	5
	Azerbaijan	1		1			2	2
	Belgium	1	1				2	2
	Bulgaria			1	1	1	3	5
	Czech Republic	1		1			2	3
	Denmark (H)	3	3	2	1	2	11	16
	England			2	2	2	6	11
	Estonia		1		1		2	3
	Finland	1					1	1
	France	2	1	2	1	1	7	9
	Germany	2	1	2	2	2	9	12
	Hungary		1				1	1
	Ireland	1	1	1			3	4
	Israel	1				1	2	2
	Italy	2		1			3	4
	Netherlands	2			2	2	6	9
	Norway			1			1	2
	Portugal	1					1	1
	Scotland		1	2	1	1	5	7
	Serbia					1	1	2
	Slovakia	1					1	1
	Spain	2	2				4	4
	Sweden				1		1	2
	Switzerland	1	1				2	2
	Turkey		1				1	1
	Ukraine	1	1		1		3	4
Oceania	Australia	1	1	1	1	1	5	6
Pan Am	Brazil	2	1	1	1	2	7	9
	Canada	2	2	2	1	2	9	11
	El Salvador	1					1	1
	Guatemala	1		1		1	3	4
	Mexico	1	1	1			3	3
	Peru		1	1	1		3	4
	United States	2	2	1	2	1	8	11
Total (54 NOCs)		63	47	47	47	48	252	363

Players participating in two events

Player	Gender	Singles	Doubles	Mixed
Kenneth Choo	Men
Gronya Somerville	Women
Ade Resky Dwicahyo	Men
Fabrício Farias	Men
Jaqueline Lima	Women
Iliyan Stoynov	Men
Ty Alexander Lindeman	Men
Josephine Wu	Women
Nyl Yakura	Men
Lee Chia-hsin	Women
Yang Po-hsuan	Men
Adham Hatem Elgamal	Men
Doha Hany	Women
Lauren Smith	Women
Christo Popov	Men
Toma Junior Popov	Men
Linda Efler	Women
Mark Lamsfuß	Men
Isabel Lohau	Women
Jonathan Solís	Men
Misha Zilberman	Men
Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq	Women
Job Castillo	Men
Debora Jille	Women
Inés Castillo	Women
Alvin Morada	Men
Adam Hall	Men
Julie MacPherson	Women
Supak Jomkoh	Men
Seo Seung-jae	Men
Vinson Chiu	Men

Performance by nation

As of the results of 26 August 2023.

Nation	Quota	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Finals	Champion
South Korea	8	2	8	6	5	4	3	3
China	18	5	17	15	9	6	2	1
Thailand	10	4	10	7	3	1	1	1
Japan	15	7	13	11	7	3	1
Denmark	11	8	10	5	4	2	1
Indonesia	14	6	13	9	4	1	1
Spain	4	3	1	1	1	1	1
Malaysia	13	8	12	7	3	1
India	9	6	5	4	2	1
Chinese Taipei	13	9	13	7	2
Hong Kong	6	6	5	3
United States	8	7	5	1
Singapore	7	7	5	1
France	7	6	5	1
Netherlands	6	5	3	1
Myanmar	1	1	1	1
Germany	9	9	4
Canada	9	8	4
Scotland	5	5	4
Brazil	7	7	3
England	6	6	3
Bulgaria	3	2	2
Australia	5	5	1
Austria	3	3	1
Ireland	3	3	1
Italy	3	3	1
Ukraine	3	2	1
Azerbaijan	2	2	1
Belgium	2	2	1
Czech Republic	2	2	1
Israel	2	2	1
Philippines	2	2	1
El Salvador	1	1	1
Turkey	1	1	1
Egypt	3	3
Guatemala	3	3
Mexico	3	3
Peru	3	3
Estonia	2	2
Maldives	2	2
Mauritius	2	2
South Africa	2	2
Switzerland	2	2
Vietnam	2	2
Finland	1	1
Hungary	1	1
Jordan	1	1
Kazakhstan	1	1
Nigeria	1	1
Norway	1	1
Portugal	1	1
Serbia	1	1
Slovakia	1	1
Sweden	1	1
Withdrew	4	2	2
Total	256	192	160	80	40	20	10	5