A total of 173 players will be competing for badminton event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Of them, 16 pairs will be competing in each doubles events, 41 players competing for men's singles event and 47 players competing for women's singles event.
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The main qualifying criteria will be the BWF Ranking list as of May 1, 2008. It will provide a total of 16 pairs in each doubles event and 38 athletes in each singles event, in the following manner:
Each continent is guaranteed one entry in each event. If this is not satisfied by the entry selection method described above, the highest ranking player/pair will be qualified. If there is no player/pair in the rankings, the winner of the most recently contested Continental Championship will be qualified.
The host nation (People's Republic of China) shall be entitled to enter 2 players in total, but more than 2 players are permitted if they all qualified under qualifying regulations.
There will also be 2 invitational places in each singles event which will be allocated by the IOC Tripartite Commission.[1]
| NOC | Men's Singles |
Men's Doubles |
Women's Singles |
Women's Doubles |
Mixed Doubles |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quotas | Athletes | ||||||
| Algeria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
| Belarus | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| China | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 19 |
| Chinese Taipei | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Denmark | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Estonia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Germany | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |
| 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 | 8 | 11 |
| Iran | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Japan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 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 | 4 | 5 | |
| Portugal | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Russia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Seychelles | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Slovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
| South Korea | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 13 |
| Spain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Thailand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Uganda | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Zambia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total: 50 NOCs | 41 | 16 | 47 | 16 | 16 | 136 | 173 |
The color pink signifies that a player withdrew from the competition.
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan | Indonesia | |
| 2 | 2 | Fu Haifeng / Cai Yun | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae | South Korea | |
| 4 | 4 | Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah | Malaysia | |
| 5 | 5 | Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong | Malaysia | |
| 6 | 7 | Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto | Indonesia | |
| 7 | 8 | Lars Paaske / Jonas Rasmussen | Denmark | |
| 8 | 9 | Guo Zhendong / Xie Zhongbo | China | |
| 9 | 10 | Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man | South Korea | |
| 10 | 11 | Shuichi Sakamoto / Shintaro Ikeda | Japan | |
| 11 | 12 | Jens Eriksen / Martin Lundgaard Hansen | Denmark | |
| 12 | 14 | Tadashi Ohtsuka / Keita Masuda | Japan | |
| — | 16 | Albertus Susanto Njoto / Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama | Hong Kong | [10] |
| 13 | 18 | Michał Łogosz / Robert Mateusiak | Poland | |
| 14 | 21 | Howard Bach / Bob Malaythong | United States | |
| 15 | 42 | Glenn Warfe / Ross Smith | Australia | |
| 16 | 55 | Roelof Dednam / Chris Dednam | South Africa |
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen | China | |
| 2 | 2 | Du Jing / Yu Yang | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Zhang Yawen / Wei Yili | China | |
| 4 | 4 | Lee Kyung-won / Lee Hyo-jung | South Korea | |
| 5 | 5 | Chien Yu Chin / Cheng Wen-Hsing | Chinese Taipei | |
| 6 | 6 | Gail Emms / Donna Kellogg | Great Britain | |
| 7 | 7 | Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota | Japan | |
| 8 | 8 | Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna | Japan | |
| 9 | 9 | Lilyana Natsir / Vita Marissa | Indonesia | |
| 10 | 10 | Wong Pei Tty / Chin Eei Hui | Malaysia | |
| 11 | 11 | Jiang Yanmei / Li Yujia | Singapore | |
| 12 | 13 | Lena Frier Kristiansen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl | Denmark | |
| 13 | 15 | Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung | South Korea | |
| 14 | 36 | Eva Lee / Mesinee Mangkalakiri | United States | |
| 15 | 49 | Tania Luiz / Eugenia Tanaka | Australia | |
| 16 | 79 | Michelle Claire Edwards / Chantal Botts | South Africa |
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Nova Widianto / Lilyana Natsir | Indonesia | |
| 2 | 2 | Zheng Bo / Gao Ling | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Flandy Limpele / Vita Marissa | Indonesia | |
| 4 | 4 | He Hanbin / Yu Yang | China | |
| 5 | 6 | Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms | Great Britain | |
| 6 | 7 | Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam | Thailand | |
| 7 | 8 | Anthony Clark / Donna Kellogg | Great Britain | |
| 8 | 9 | Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl | Denmark | |
| 9 | 10 | Lee Yong-dae / Lee Hyo-jung | South Korea | |
| 10 | 11 | Han Sang-hoon / Hwang Yu-mi | South Korea | |
| 11 | 12 | Robert Mateusiak / Nadieżda Kostiuczyk | Poland | |
| 12 | 13 | Kristof Hopp / Birgit Overzier | Germany | |
| 13 | 14 | Hendri Kurniawan Saputra / Li Yujia | Singapore | |
| — | 21 | Howard Bach / Eva Lee | United States | [11] |
| 14 | 31 | Craig Cooper / Renee Flavell | New Zealand | |
| 15 | 42 | Mike Beres / Valerie Loker | Canada | |
| 16 | 75 | Georgie Cupidon / Juliette Ah-Wan | Seychelles |