Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Badminton (Qualification)

Before the 2008 Summer Olympics , numerous badminton qualification tournaments were held.

Qualification criteria

The main qualification criterion was the badminton world rankings as of May 1, 2008. 38 starters in each of the individual disciplines and 16 starters each in the double disciplines were automatically qualified:

• Places 1–4, provided the NOC has not already occupied three starting places in the respective discipline.
• Places 5–16, unless the NOC has already occupied two starting places in the respective discipline.
• Places 17 until the maximum number of starters is reached, provided the NOC has not already occupied a starting place in the respective discipline.

Each continental federation was also guaranteed a starting place for the highest placed starter per discipline, unless the place was already secured by the world rankings. If there is no starter in the ranking, the last winner of the continental championships was given the right to start. The host was given at least two starting places. Two wildcards were allowed to be issued by the IOC Tripartite Commission.

Starting places

NOC	HE	HD	DE	DD	MX	Ges.
						Starting places	Athletes
Egypt			1			1	1
Algeria	1					1	1
Australia	1	1	1	1		4th	6th
Bulgaria			1			1	1
China	3	2	3	3	2	13	19th
Chinese Taipei	1		1	1		3	4th
Denmark	2	2	1	1	1	7th	10
Germany	1		2		1	4th	5
Estonia	1		1			2	2
Finland	1		1			2	2
France	1		1			2	2
Guatemala	1					1	1
Hong Kong	1		2			3	3
Iceland			1			1	1
India	1		1			2	2
Indonesia	2	2	1	1	2	8th	11
Iran	1					1	1
Ireland	1		1			2	2
Italy			1			1	1
Japan	1	2	1	2		6th	10
Lithuania	1		1			2	2
Canada	1		1		1	3	4th
Malaysia	2	2	1	1		6th	9
Mauritius			1			1	1
Mexico			1			1	1
New Zealand	1				1	2	3
Nigeria			1			1	1
Peru			1			1	1
Poland	1	1	1		1	4th	5
Portugal	1		1			2	2
Russia	1		1			2	2
Zambia	1					1	1
Sweden			1			1	1
Switzerland	1		1			2	2
Seychelles					1	1	2
Singapore	1		1	1	1	4th	5
Slovenia			1			1	1
Slovakia			1			1	1
Spain	1		1			2	2
Sri Lanka			1			1	1
South Africa		1	1	1		3	5
South Korea	2	2	1	2	2	9	13
Thailand	1		1		1	3	4th
Czech Republic	1		1			2	2
Uganda	1					1	1
Ukraine	1		1			2	2
United States	1	1	1	1		4th	5
United Kingdom	1		1	1	2	5	6th
Vietnam	1		1			2	2
Belarus			1			1	1
Total: 50 NOC	41	16	47	16	16	136	173

Qualified athletes

(Pink: right to start not exercised)

Men's singles

No.	rank	Surname	NOC	comment
1	1	Lin Dan
2	2	Lee Chong Wei
3	3	Bao Chunlai
4th	4th	Chen Jin
5	5	Kenneth Jonassen
6th	6th	Sony Dwi Kuncoro
7th	7th	Taufik Hidayat
8th	8th	Peter Gade
9	9	Boonsak Ponsana
10	10	Sung-hwan Park
11	11	Lee Hyun-il
12	13	Przemysław Wacha
13	14th	Wong Choong Hann
14th	17th	Ronald Susilo
15th	18th	Shoji Sato
16	20th	Ng Wei
17th	30th	Marc Zwiebler
18th	31	Andrew Smith
19th	33	Anup Sridhar
20th	34	Andrew Dabeka
21st	35	Nguyễn Ti Minn Minh
-	36	Eric Pang
22nd	38	Petr Koukal
23	40	John Moody
24	43	Scott Evans
25th	47	Pablo Abián
26th	52	Hsieh Yu-Hsing
27	54	Ville Lång
28	57	Kevin Cordón
29	58	Kęstutis Navickas
30th	59	Erwin Kehlhoffner
31	60	Stanislav Pukhov
32	64	Marco Vasconcelos
33	68	Raju Rai
34	69	Vladislav Druzchenko
35	72	Stuart Gomez
-	79	Jürgen Koch
-	83	Magnus Sahlberg
-	84	Yuhan Tan
36	86	Nabil Lasmari
37	88	Raul Must
38	92	Kaveh Mehrabi
39	95	Edwin Ekiring
40	99	Christian Bösiger
41	129	Eli Mambwe		Wildcard

Ladies singles

No.	rank	Surname	NOC	comment
1	1	Xie Xingfang
2	2	Zhang Ning
3	3	Lu Lan
4th	5	Wang Chen
5	6th	Pi Hongyan
6th	7th	Tine Rasmussen
7th	8th	Xu Huaiwen
-	9	Zhou Mi
8th	10	Wong Mew Choo
9	11	Jun Jae-youn
10	12	Yip Pui Yin
11	13	Juliane Schenk
12	14th	Tracey Hallam
13	15th	Eriko Hirose
14th	16	Cheng Shao-Chieh
15th	17th	Petya Nedelcheva
-	18th	Yao Jie
16	23	Anna Rice
17th	24	Maria Kristin Yulianti
18th	26th	Larisa Griga
19th	27	Ella Diehl
20th	31	Saina Nehwal
21st	32	Sara Persson
22nd	33	Salakjit Ponsana
23	36	Xing Aiying
24	41	Anu Nieminen
25th	42	Agnese Allegrini
26th	44	Kati Tolmoff
27	45	Claudia Rivero
28	47	Jeanine Cicognini
-	50	Rachel Hindley
29	51	Olga Konon
-	55	Simone Prutsch
30th	56	Ragna Ingólfsdóttir
31	59	Ana Moura
32	60	Maja Tvrdy
33	65	Eva Lee
34	69	Kristína Ludíková
35	75	Lê Ngọc Nguyên Nhung
36	79	Chloe Magee
37	81	Yoana Martínez
38	82	Kamila Augustyn
39	89	Grace Daniel
-	95	Huang Chia-Chi
40	100	Erin Carroll
41	102	Karen Foo Kune
42	107	Thilini Jayasinghe
43	110	Akvilė Stapušaitytė
-	116	Nathalie Descamps
44	118	Deyanira Angulo
45	119	Eva Sládeková
46	142	Hadia Hosny
47	146	Kerry-Lee Harrington

Men's doubles

No.	rank	Surname	NOC	comment
1	1	Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan
2	2	Fu Haifeng / Cai Yun
3	3	Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae
4th	4th	Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah
5	5	Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong
6th	7th	Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto
7th	8th	Lars Paaske / Jonas Rasmussen
8th	9	Guo Zhendong / Xie Zhongbo
9	10	Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man
10	11	Shuichi Sakamoto / Shintaro Ikeda
11	12	Jens Eriksen / Martin Lundgaard Hansen
12	14th	Tadashi Ohtsuka / Keita Masuda
-	16	Albertus Susanto Njoto / Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama
13	18th	Michał Łogosz / Robert Mateusiak
14th	21st	Howard Bach / Khankham Malaythong
15th	42	Glenn Warfe / Ross Smith
16	55	Roelof Dednam / Chris Dednam

Ladies doubles

No.	rank	Surname	NOC	comment
1	1	Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen
2	2	You Jing / Yu Yang
3	3	Zhang Yawen / Wei Yili
4th	4th	Lee Kyung-won / Lee Hyo-jung
5	5	Chien Yu-Chin / Cheng Wen-Hsing
6th	6th	Gail Emms / Donna Kellogg
7th	7th	Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota
8th	8th	Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna
9	9	Liliyana Natsir / Vita Marissa
10	10	Wong Pei Tty / Chin Eei Hui
11	11	Jiang Yanmei / Li Yujia
12	13	Lena Frier Kristiansen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl
13	15th	Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung
14th	36	Eva Lee / Mesinee Mangkalakiri
15th	49	Tania Luiz / Eugenia Tanaka
16	79	Michelle Edwards / Chantal Botts

Mixed

No.	rank	Surname	NOC	comment
1	1	Nova Widianto / Liliyana Natsir
2	2	Zheng Bo / Gao Ling
3	3	Flandy Limpele / Vita Marissa
4th	4th	He Hanbin / Yu Yang
5	6th	Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms
6th	7th	Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam
7th	8th	Anthony Clark / Donna Kellogg
8th	9	Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl
9	10	Lee Yong-dae / Lee Hyo-young
10	11	Han Sang-hoon / Hwang Yu-mi
11	12	Robert Mateusiak / Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
12	13	Kristof Hopp / Birgit Overzier
13	14th	Hendri Kurniawan Saputra / Li Yujia
-	21st	Howard Bach / Eva Lee
14th	31	Craig Cooper / Renee Flavell
15th	42	Mike Beres / Valérie Loker
16	75	Georgie Cupidon / Juliette Ah-Wan	Seychelles

Qualifiers from D / A / CH

In each case, it is indicated in small letters when the qualifiers were eliminated.

• Germany
  • Marc Zwiebler (men's singles) 1/16 finals
  • Xu Huaiwen (women's singles) quarter-finals
  • Juliane Schenk (women singles) 1/64 final
  • Kristof Hopp (Mixed) 1/16 finals
  • Birgit Overzier (Mixed) 1/16 finals
• Austria
  • Simone Prutsch (women singles) and Jürgen Koch (men singles) fulfilled the international guidelines, but they were not established by the national association.
• Switzerland
  • Jeanine Cicognini (women singles) 1/32 final
  • Christian Bösiger (men's singles) 1/32 final

credentials

1. ↑ Eric Pang had to withdraw due to the strict qualification rules of his NOC. OLYMPICS Sahlberg Out - Mehrabi In ( Memento from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Magnus Sahlberg withdrew after meeting his NOC for reasons unknown. OLYMPICS Sahlberg Out - Mehrabi In ( Memento from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ not started. Olympic Men's Singles List ( Memento from August 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Zambia's top badminton player gets Beijing Olympic berth , Xinhuanet. June 19, 2008. Retrieved June 21, 2008. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Zhou Mi was not allowed to start due to pass problems. http://www.badzine.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=975&Itemid=2 ( Memento from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
6. Jump up ↑ Olympics - Dream Shattered For Yao Jie , Badzine.info. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved July 16, 2008. 
7. ↑ New Zealand will not send a women's single player to the Olympics http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1831537 ( Memento from June 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ ^{a b} not started. Olympic Women's Singles List ( Memento from 23 August 2008 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ not started. Olympic Men's Doubles List ( Memento from August 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ not started. Olympic Mixed Doubles List ( Memento from 23 August 2008 in the Internet Archive )