Badminton
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
VenueNational Exhibition Centre
Dates29 July – 8 August 2022
Competitors151 from 29 nations
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The six medallists in the women's doubles at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Badminton at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
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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]

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
  1. ^ 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)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 India3126
2 Malaysia2125
3 Singapore1023
4 England*0303
5 Canada0101
Totals (5 entries)66618

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ "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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