2000 Summer Olympics / Badminton

Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Sydney
Competition venue	The Dome and Exhibition Complex Pavilion 3
Nations	28
Athletes	171 (86 , 85 )
date	September 16-23, 2000
decisions	5
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Australian metropolis of Sydney , badminton was part of the Olympic program for the third time. A total of five competitions - two each for women and men and one mixed - were held. 172 athletes from 28 countries took part. The venue was Pavilion 3 of The Dome and Exhibition Complex .

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	1	3	8th
2	Indonesia	1	2	-	3
3	South Korea	-	1	1	2
4th	Denmark	-	1	-	1
5	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1

The athletes of the People's Republic of China dominated the badminton competitions. This is evident from the fact that they won gold medals in four of the five competitions. With eight out of a total of fifteen medals to be awarded, the Chinese won over half of all medals in this sport. Two European nations won medals in Sydney, one silver and one bronze. So that the result was badminton competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics of Barcelona set. However, as at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the Dane Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen could not book a gold medal in the men's singles. In Atlanta, the gold medals in the five badminton competitions went to four different nations. Even if the Chinese took home two gold medals back then, there was no dominance in this sport.

Competitions

Men

Men's singles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Ji Xinpeng
2	INA	Hendrawan
3	CHN	Xia Xuanze
4th	THE	Peter Gade
5	INA	Taufik Hidayat
	INA	Marleve Mainaky
	MAS	Wong Choong Hann
	CHN	Sun Jun

The men's individual badminton tournament was held between September 17 and 23, 2000. In the round of 32, the American Kevin Han won in two sets with 15: 5 and 15: 3 against the Canadian Mike Beres . It was the first ever American victory in badminton at the Olympic Games, which is why the daughter of American President Bill Clinton , Chelsea Clinton , congratulated him. In the last sixteen he was eliminated from the eventual Olympic champion. The tournament was dominated by the athletes from Asia. Of the eight players who reached the quarter-finals, seven came from Asian countries. Only the Dane Peter Gade was able to prevail alongside them and even reached the small final for the bronze medal. There he was defeated by the Chinese Xia Xuanze with 13:15 and 5:15 in two sets . Ji Xinpeng from the People's Republic of China and Hendrawan from Indonesia qualified for the final . In the quarterfinals, the Chinese defeated the first in the world rankings, the Indonesian Taufik Hidayat , in two sets with 15:12 and 15: 5. In the semifinals he met Peter Gade. The men's singles final was held on September 23 at 9:15 p.m. Xinpeng was able to prevail against Hendrawan in two sets, which he won with 15: 4 and 15:13. According to his own testimony, a key factor in Ji Xinpeng's success was coach Tang Xianhu . He had previously been the trainer of the Indonesian Hendrawan.

Athletes from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were not among the participants.

Men's doubles

space	country	athlete
1	INA	Candra Wijaya , Tony Gunawan
2	COR	Lee Dong-soo , Yoo Yong-sung
3	COR	Kim Dong-moon , Ha Tae-kwon
4th	MAS	Choong Tan Fook , Lee Wan Wah
5	GBR	Simon Archer , Nathan Robertson
	INA	Ricky Subagja , Rexy Mainaky
	INA	Eng Hian , Flandy Limpele
	THE	Jens Eriksen , Jesper Larsen

Between September 16 and September 21, 2000 the men's doubles tournament took place. Here, too, the Asians dominated. Only two doubles from Europe reached the quarter-finals, where they were eliminated.

Women

Ladies singles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Gong Zhichao
2	THE	Camilla Martin
3	CHN	Ye Zhaoying
4th	CHN	Dai Yun
5	JPN	Yasuko Mizui
	TPE	Huang Chia-Chi
	COR	Kim Ji-hyun
	NED	Mia Audina

Ladies doubles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Ge Fei , Gu Jun
2	CHN	Huang Nanyan , Yang Wei
3	CHN	Qin Yiyuan , Gao Ling
4th	COR	Chung Jae-hee , Ra Kyung-min
5	INA	Etty Tantri , Cynthia Tuwankotta
	GBR	Joanne Goode , Donna Kellogg
	THE	Helene Kirkegaard , Rikke Olsen
	NED	Lotte Jonathans , Nicole van Hooren

Mixed

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Zhang Jun , Gao Ling
2	INA	Tri Kusharyanto , Minarti Timur
3	GBR	Simon Archer , Joanne Goode
4th	THE	Michael Søgaard , Rikke Olsen
5	THE	Jens Eriksen , Mette Schjoldager
	NED	Chris Bruil , Erica van den Heuvel
	INA	Bambang Suprianto , Zelin Resiana
	COR	Kim Dong-moon , Ra Kyung-min

The mixed badminton tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place between September 16 and 21. Two of the 32 teams came from Germany. Björn Siegemund and Karen Stechmann were eliminated in the first round in a game over three sets with the result 15:10, 7:15 and 10:15 against the Chinese Zhang Jun and Gao Ling , who later won the gold medal. The second German doubles Nicol Pitro and Michael Keck lost in the round of 16 against the Danes Jens Eriksen and Mette Schjoldager in straight sets with 7:15 and 6:15. The mixed tournament was the most balanced of these games. In the quarter-finals there were four doubles each from Asia and Europe.

Web links

Commons : Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v2.pdf - Official Report, Part 2

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1. ↑ Rudi Cerne: Sydney 2000, page 195