Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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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Qualifying criteria

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]

Summary

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

Qualifiers

The color pink signifies that a player withdrew from the competition.

Men's singles

No. Rank Player NOC Note
1 1 Lin Dan China
2 2 Lee Chong Wei Malaysia
3 3 Bao Chunlai China
4 4 Chen Jin China
5 5 Kenneth Jonassen Denmark
6 6 Sony Dwi Kuncoro Indonesia
7 7 Taufik Hidayat Indonesia
8 8 Peter Gade Denmark
9 9 Boonsak Ponsana Thailand
10 10 Park Sung-hwan South Korea
11 11 Lee Hyun-il South Korea
12 13 Przemysław Wacha Poland
13 14 Wong Choong Hann Malaysia
14 17 Ronald Susilo Singapore
15 18 Shoji Sato Japan
16 20 Ng Wei Hong Kong
17 30 Marc Zwiebler Germany
18 31 Andrew Smith Great Britain
19 33 Anup Sridhar India
20 34 Andrew Dabeka Canada
21 35 Nguyen Tien Minh Vietnam
36 Eric Pang Netherlands [2]
22 38 Petr Koukal Czech Republic
23 40 John Moody New Zealand
24 43 Scott Evans Ireland
25 47 Pablo Abián Spain
26 52 Hsieh Yu-Hsin Chinese Taipei
27 54 Ville Lång Finland
28 57 Kevin Cordón Guatemala
29 58 Kęstutis Navickas Lithuania
30 59 Erwin Kehlhoffner France
31 60 Stanislav Pukhov Russia
32 64 Marco Vasconcelos Portugal
33 68 Raju Rai United States
34 69 Vladislav Druzchenko Ukraine
35 72 Stuart Gomez Australia
79 Jürgen Koch Austria
83 Magnus Sahlberg Sweden [3]
84 Yuhan Tan Belgium [4]
36 86 Nabil Lasmari Algeria
37 88 Raul Must Estonia
38 92 Kaveh Mehrabi Iran
39 95 Edwin Ekiring Uganda
40 99 Christian Bösiger Switzerland
41 129 Eli Mambwe Zambia WC[5]

Women's singles

No. Rank Player NOC Note
1 1 Xie Xingfang China
2 2 Zhang Ning China
3 3 Lu Lan China
4 5 Wang Chen Hong Kong
5 6 Pi Hongyan France
6 7 Tine Rasmussen Denmark
7 8 Xu Huaiwen Germany
9 Zhou Mi Hong Kong [6]
8 10 Wong Mew Choo Malaysia
9 11 Jun Jae-youn South Korea
10 12 Yip Pui Yin Hong Kong [6]
11 13 Juliane Schenk Germany
12 14 Tracey Hallam Great Britain
13 15 Eriko Hirose Japan
14 16 Cheng Shao-chieh Chinese Taipei
15 17 Petya Nedelcheva Bulgaria
18 Yao Jie Netherlands [7]
16 23 Anna Rice Canada
17 24 Maria Kristin Yulianti Indonesia
18 26 Larisa Griga Ukraine
19 27 Ella Diehl Russia
20 31 Saina Nehwal India
21 32 Sara Persson Sweden
22 33 Salakjit Ponsana Thailand
23 36 Xing Aiying Singapore
24 41 Anu Nieminen Finland
25 42 Agnese Allegrini Italy
26 44 Kati Tolmoff Estonia
27 45 Claudia Rivero Peru
28 47 Jeanine Cicognini Switzerland
50 Rachel Hindley New Zealand [8]
29 51 Olga Konon Belarus
55 Simone Prutsch Austria
30 56 Ragna Ingolfsdottir Iceland
31 59 Ana Moura Portugal
32 60 Maja Tvrdy Slovenia
33 65 Eva Lee United States
34 69 Kristina Ludikova Czech Republic
35 75 Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc Vietnam
36 79 Chloe Magee Ireland
37 81 Yoana Martínez Spain
38 82 Kamila Augustyn Poland
39 89 Grace Daniel Nigeria
95 Huang Chia-Chi Australia [9]
40 100 Erin Carroll Australia
41 102 Karen Foo Kune Mauritius
42 107 Thilini Jayasinghe Sri Lanka
43 110 Akvile Stapusaityte Lithuania
116 Nathalie Descamps Belgium [9]
44 118 Deyanire Angulo Mexico
45 119 Eva Sladekova Slovakia
46 142 Hadia Hosny Egypt
47 146 Kerry-Lee Harrington South Africa

Men's doubles

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

Women's doubles

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

Mixed doubles

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

References

  1. ^ Olympic Qualifying Regulations for Beijing 2008
  2. ^ Eric Pang was forced to withdraw due to the strict qualification rules set out by the Dutch Olympic Committee [1]
  3. ^ Maghus Sahlberg withdrew from the competition with unknown reason after a meeting with Swedish Olympic Council [2]
  4. ^ Remove from Olympic Men's Singles List as of July 7, 2008.
  5. ^ "Zambia's top badminton player gets Beijing Olympic berth". Xinhuanet. 2008-06-19. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/19/content_8401938.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
  6. ^ a b Hong Kong would have received the option to select any two of the three players it had in the women's singles top three, under qualification rule 3.3.3. However, Zhou does not have a Hong Kong passport and was not granted a special dispensation to compete for Hong Kong from the International Olympic Committee.[3] Thus, only Wang and Yip are eligible for selection for Hong Kong's two qualification places.
  7. ^ "Olympics - Dream Shattered For Yao Jie". Badzine.info. http://www.badzine.info/content/view/1173/2/. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 
  8. ^ New Zealand Olympic Committee officially denied Rachel Hindley's place at the Beijing Olympics, on 5 June 2008, after she failed to meet the New Zealand qualification standard (of showing she has the potential to reach the top 16). New Zealand will not send a women's single player to the Olympics [4]
  9. ^ a b Remove from Olympic Women's Singles List as of June 30, 2008.
  10. ^ Remove from Olympic Men's Doubles List as of June 15, 2008.
  11. ^ Remove from Olympic Mixed Doubles List as of June 15, 2008.

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