2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton

Badminton at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games
information
venue	London , UK
Competition venue	Wembley Arena
Nations	51
Athletes	172 (86 , 86 )
date	July 28 to August 5, 2012
decisions	5
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the British capital, London , five badminton competitions were held in the Wembley Arena from July 28 to August 5 , individual competitions for women and men and doubles for women, men and mixed.

In London there was a combination of group games and a knockout phase for the first time . In order to participate in the games, the athletes had to pass an almost one-year qualification . The draw for the Olympic tournament took place on July 23 at 10 a.m. (UTC) in the press center in the Olympic Park in London.

Competitions and schedule

Wembley Arena - the venue for badminton competitions

Competitions and schedule badminton
Competitions	July August
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
singles	VR	VR	VR	VR	AF	VF	HF
Double	VR	VR	VR	VR	VF	HF
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
singles	VR	VR	VR	VR	AF	VF	HF
Double	VR	VR	VR	VR		VF		HF
Mixed	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
Double	VR	VR	VR	VR	VF	HF

VR

Preliminary round

AF

Round of 16

VF

Quarter finals

HF

Semifinals

Small / big finale

Tournament mode

This was the first time that groups were played at these Olympic Games. There were 16 groups in the singles and four groups of four in the doubles. The group winners in the individual and first and second in the double disciplines qualified for the knockout phase. Due to the regulations for the drawing of the groups, the eight top seeded players in the men's singles competed in groups of two, in the women's singles only the two top seeded players. All other groups in the individual disciplines consisted of three athletes.

The new group mode made it possible to manipulate games. Four doubles pairing for the women who had already qualified for the next round tried to lose their last group game and intentionally shot the ball out of the way or into the net: Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (China), Jung Kyung-eun / Kim Ha-na , Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung (all South Korea) and Greysia Polii / Meiliana Jauhari (Indonesia). All eight players were excluded from the Olympic Games by the World Badminton Federation.

Results

Men

singles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Lin Dan
2	MAS	Lee Chong Wei
3	CHN	Chen Long
4th	COR	Lee Hyun-il
5	IND	Kashyap Parupalli
	THE	Peter Gade
	CHN	Chen Jin
	JPN	Shō Sasaki

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton (men's singles)

Double

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng
2	THE	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen
3	COR	Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae
4th	MAS	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong
5	CHN	Chai Biao Guo Zhendong
	THA	Bodin Isara Maneepong Jongjit
	TPE	Fang Chieh-Min Lee Sheng-Mu
	INA	Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton (men's doubles)

Women

singles

space	country	sportswoman
1	CHN	Li Xuerui
2	CHN	Wang Yihan
3	IND	Saina Nehwal
4th	CHN	Wang Xin
5	THA	Ratchanok Intanon
	HKG	Yip Pui Yin
	THE	Tine Baun
	TPE	Cheng Shao-Chieh

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton (women singles)

Double

space	country	Sportswomen
1	CHN	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei
2	JPN	Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa
3	RUS	Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova
4th	CAN	Alex Bruce Michelle Li
5	ZAF	Michelle Edwards Annari Viljoen
	TPE	Cheng Wen-Hsing Chien Yu-Chin
	OUT	Leanne Choo Renuga Veeran
	THE	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton (women's doubles)

Mixed

Double

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2	CHN	Xu Chen Ma Jin
3	THE	Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen
4th	INA	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir
5	GER	Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels
	THA	Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam
	POLE	Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Zięba
	THE	Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Badminton (Mixed)

Final results

Men's singles

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Lee Chong Wei

21st

21st

Kashyap Parupalli

19th

11

Lee Chong Wei

21st

21st

Chen Long

13

14th

Chen Long

21st

21st

Peter Gade

16

13

Lee Chong Wei

21st

10

19th

Lin Dan

15th

21st

21st

Lee Hyun-il

21st

21st

Chen Jin

15th

16

Lee Hyun-il

12

10

Lin Dan

21st

21st

Bronze game

Shō Sasaki

12

21st

16

Lin Dan

21st

16

21st

Chen Long

21st

15th

21st

Lee Hyun-il

12

21st

15th

Ladies singles

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Wang Yihan

21st

21st

C1

Cheng Shao-Chieh

14th

11

A1

Wang Yihan

21st

21st

E1

Saina Nehwal

13

13

E1

Saina Nehwal

21st

22nd

G1

Tine Baun

15th

20th

A1

Wang Yihan

15th

23

17th

L1

Li Xuerui

21st

21st

21st

J1

Yip Pui Yin

12

20th

L1

Li Xuerui

21st

22nd

L1

Li Xuerui

22nd

21st

P1

Wang Xin

20th

18th

Bronze game

M1

Ratchanok Intanon

21st

18th

14th

P1

Wang Xin

17th

21st

21st

E1

Saina Nehwal

18th

P1

Wang Xin

21st

r

Men's doubles

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Cai Yun Fu Haifeng

21st

21st

C2

Chai Biao Guo Zhendong

15th

19th

A1

Cai Yun Fu Haifeng

21st

21st

D2

Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong

9

19th

B1

Bodin Isara Maneepong Jongjit

16

18th

D2

Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong

21st

21st

A1

Cai Yun Fu Haifeng

21st

21st

C1

Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen

16

15th

A2

Fang Chieh-Min Lee Sheng-Mu

16

18th

C1

Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen

21st

21st

C1

Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen

17th

21st

22nd

D1

Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae

21st

18th

20th

Bronze game

B2

Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano

12

16

D1

Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae

21st

21st

D2

Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong

21st

10

D1

Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae

23

21st

Ladies doubles

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova

21st

21st

C2

Michelle Edwards Annari Viljoen

9

7th

A1

Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova

19th

6th

D2

Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei

21st

21st

B1

Cheng Wen-Hsing Chien Yu-Chin

10

14th

D2

Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei

21st

21st

D2

Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei

21st

25th

B2

Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa

10

23

A2

Alex Bruce Michelle Li

21st

18th

21st

C1

Leanne Choo Renuga Veeran

9

21st

18th

A2

Alex Bruce Michelle Li

12

21st

13

B2

Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa

21st

19th

21st

Bronze game

B2

Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa

22nd

21st

D1

Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl

20th

10

A1

Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova

21st

21st

A2

Alex Bruce Michelle Li

9

10

Mixed

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

21st

21st

C2

Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl

13

17th

A1

Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

17th

21st

21st

B1

Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen

21st

17th

19th

B1

Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen

21st

21st

D2

Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam

15th

13

A1

Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

21st

21st

D1

Xu Chen Ma Jin

11

17th

A2

Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels

15th

9

C1

Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir

21st

21st

C1

Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir

23

18th

13

D1

Xu Chen Ma Jin

21st

21st

21st

Bronze game

B2

Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Zięba

21st

16

21st

D1

Xu Chen Ma Jin

19th

21st

23

B1

Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen

21st

21st

C1

Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir

12

12

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	5	2	1	8th
2	Denmark	-	1	1	2
3	Japan	-	1	-	1
3	Malaysia	-	1	-	1
5	India	-	-	1	1
5	Russia	-	-	1	1
5	South Korea	-	-	1	1
Total		5	5	5	15th

Web links

Commons : Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• World ranking with Olympic qualifiers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Badminton Schedule. Retrieved May 4, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Regulations Accessed on June 21, 2012. (English)
3. ^ Sven Flohr: Manipulation - All eight athletes excluded , Welt Online, August 1, 2012