Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | |
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Venue | National Exhibition Centre |
Dates | 29 July – 8 August 2022 |
Competitors | 151 from 29 nations |
Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | |||
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Singles | men | women | |
Doubles | men | mixed | women |
Teams | mixed | ||
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]
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 | ||||||||||||
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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 |
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]
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 |
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Host nation | — | 1 | England |
BWF World Ranking | 1 February 2022 | 14 |
India Malaysia Canada Singapore Scotland Australia Sri Lanka Mauritius South Africa Maldives Uganda Jamaica Barbados Zambia |
Bipartite invitation | 8 March 2022 | 1 | Pakistan |
TOTAL | 16 |
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.
* Host nation ( England)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | India | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
2 | Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
3 | Singapore | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
4 | England* | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
5 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (5 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
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]