2019 BWF World Championships

2019 BWF World Championships
Tournament details
Dates	19–25 August
Edition	25th
Level	International
Competitors	359 from 45 nations
Venue	St. Jakobshalle
Location	Basel, Switzerland
Official website	basel2019.org
← 2018 Nanjing	2021 Huelva →

The 2019 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 19 to 25 August 2019 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.^[1]

Host city selection[]

Basel was chosen to be the host of the 2019 edition of the championships over 2020 Summer Olympics host city, Tokyo.^[2] The bid were approved by the Badminton World Federation during a council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

Schedule[]

Five events were held.^[4]

All times are local (UTC+2).

R64	Round of 64	R48	Round of 48	R32	Round of 32	⅛	Round of 16	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	F	Final

Event	Mon 19	Tue 20		Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25
Date	Mon 19	Tue 20		Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25
Men's singles	R64	R32		R32	⅛	¼	½	F
Women's singles	R48	R48	R32	R32	⅛	¼	½	F
Men's doubles	R48	R48		R32	⅛	¼	½	F
Women's doubles	R48	R48		R32	⅛	¼	½	F
Mixed doubles	R48	R48	R32	R32	⅛	¼	½	F
Matches	64	56		56	40	20	10	5
Courts	4	4		4	4	2	1	1

Sessions	1	1		1	1	2	2	1
Time	09–23	09–22		09-22	11–22	11–16	11–16	12–17
Time	09–23	09–22		09-22	11–22	17–22	17–22	12–17

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

* Host nation (Switzerland)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	2	3	1	6
2	China (CHN)	1	0	4	5
3	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	2	3
4	India (IND)	1	0	1	2
5	Thailand (THA)	0	1	2	3
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 nations)		5	5	10	20

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Kento Momota	Anders Antonsen	B. Sai Praneeth
Men's singles details	Kento Momota	Anders Antonsen	Kantaphon Wangcharoen
Women's singles details	P. V. Sindhu	Nozomi Okuhara	Ratchanok Intanon
Women's singles details	P. V. Sindhu	Nozomi Okuhara	Chen Yufei
Men's doubles details	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto
Men's doubles details	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen
Women's doubles details	Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Greysia Polii Apriyani Rahayu
Women's doubles details	Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Du Yue Li Yinhui
Mixed doubles details	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino
Mixed doubles details	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai	Wang Yilü Huang Dongping

Players[]

Number of participants[]

Nation		MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total	Players
Africa	Mauritius	1					1	1
Asia	China	4	4	4	4	4	20	30
	Chinese Taipei	2	2	4	2	1	11	17
	Hong Kong	2	2	2	2	2	10	14
	India	4	2	4	3	2	15	21
	Indonesia	3	2	4	3	4	16	27
	Japan	3	4	4	4	4	19	27
						1	1	2
	Malaysia	2	1	4	2	3	12	21
	Singapore	1	1	1		1	4	6
	South Korea	2	3	1	2	1	9	12
	Sri Lanka	1					1	1
	Thailand	2	4	1	3	2	12	17
	Vietnam	2	2			1	5	6
Europe	Austria	1		1			2	3
	Belgium	1	1				2	2
	Bulgaria		2		1	1	4	6
	Croatia	1					1	1
	Czech Republic	2		1	1	1	5	7
	Denmark	3	2	1	2	1	9	12
	England	2	1	2	1	3	9	11
	Estonia	1	1		1		3	4
	Finland	2					2	2
	France	2		1	2	1	6	8
	Germany	1	2	2	2	2	9	11
	Hungary	1					1	1
	Ireland	1		1		1	3	5
	Israel	1	1			1	3	3
	Italy	1					1	1
	Netherlands	1	1	1	1.5	1	5.5	7
	Poland	1				1	2	3
	Russia	2	1	3	2	2	10	15
	Scotland		1	1		1	3	4
	Spain	2					2	2
	Sweden	1			1		2	3
	Switzerland (H)	1	1	1	0.5	1	4.5	6
	Turkey	1	2		1		4	5
	Ukraine	1			1	1	3	4
Oceania	Australia	1	1	1	1	1	5	6
Pan Am	Brazil	1					1	1
	Canada	1	2	2	1	2	8	8
	Guatemala	1			1		2	3
	Mexico	1					1	1
	Peru				1		1	2
	United States		2	1	2	1	6	9
Total (45 NOCs)		64	48	48	48	48	256	359

Players participating in two events[]

Player	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD
Gronya Somerville				Y	Y
Simon Leung			Y		Y
Mariya Mitsova		Y			Y
Jason Ho-shue	Y		Y
Joshua Hurlburt-Yu			Y		Y
Kristen Tsai				Y	Y
Nyl Yakura			Y		Y
Rachel Honderich		Y		Y
Du Yue				Y	Y
He Jiting			Y		Y
Alžběta Bášová				Y	Y
Sara Thygesen				Y	Y
Ben Lane			Y		Y
Chloe Birch		Y		Y
Lauren Smith				Y	Y
Marcus Ellis			Y		Y
Delphine Delrue				Y	Y
Thom Gicquel			Y		Y
Isabel Herttrich				Y	Y
Linda Efler				Y	Y
Mark Lamsfuß			Y		Y
Marvin Emil Seidel			Y		Y
			Y		Y
				Y	Y
Ashwini Ponnappa				Y	Y
N. Sikki Reddy				Y	Y
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy			Y		Y
Misha Zilberman	Y				Y
Takuro Hoki			Y		Y
Misaki Matsutomo				Y	Y
Wakana Nagahara				Y	Y
Yuki Kaneko			Y		Y
Yuta Watanabe			Y		Y
Robin Tabeling			Y		Y
Selena Piek				Y	Y
Alina Davletova				Y	Y
Adam Hall			Y		Y
Seo Seung-jae			Y		Y
Oliver Schaller			Y		Y
Sapsiree Taerattanachai				Y	Y
Wang Chi-lin			Y		Y
Yelyzaveta Zharka				Y	Y
				Y	Y

Performance by nation[]

Nation	First Round	Second Round	Third Round	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final	Winner
	9	18	13	9	6	5	2
	5	19	14	9	5	1	1
	8	14	9	4	3	1	1
	10	9	5	2	2	1	1
	8	10	5	3	3	1
	5	7	5	2	1	1
	5	9	6	3
	7	9	4	3
	5	11	6	2
	9	4	2	1
	4	2	2	1
	5.5	4	1	1
	7	5	2
	8	3	1
	7	3	1
	5	2	1
	5	2	1
	3	2	1
	3	1	1
	10	7
	5	4
	5	3
	3	3
	2	2
	5	1
	3	1
	2	1
	2	1
	1	1
	1	1
	4.5
	4
	3
	3
	2
	2
	2
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1

Withdrew	6	1
Total	192	160	80	40	20	10	5

References[]

^ "TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019 Prospectus" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 17 April 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "BWF To Name Major Events' Hosts". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
^ "Bangkok and Basel Bag 'Major Events'". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
^ "TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019 Preliminary schedule" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

External links[]

[1] "TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019 Prospectus" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 17 April 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "BWF To Name Major Events' Hosts". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

[3] "Bangkok and Basel Bag 'Major Events'". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 9 January 2019.

[4] "TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019 Preliminary schedule" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

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Events at the 2019 BWF World Championships

Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
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v t Badminton World Championships
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Qualification	2018 2019 2021
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v t World championships in 2019
Summer sports & indoor sports	Aquatics artistic swimming diving high diving open water swimming swimming water polo Archery Association football (women) Athletics cross country relay Badminton mixed team Basketball men 3x3 Beach soccer Beach volleyball Bowls Boxing men women Canoeing slalom sprint Cricket Test ODI (men) Cycling road track mountain bike cyclo-cross BMX Fencing Floorball (women) Futsal (AMF men) Gymnastics artistic rhythmic trampoline Handball men women Judo Korfball Minifootball Modern pentathlon Muaythai Netball Nine-pin bowling Orienteering Roller hockey men women Rowing Rugby union (men) Shooting (shotgun) Softball (men) Sport climbing Squash men 2018–19 2019–20 women 2018–19 2019–20 Surfing Table tennis men women team Taekwondo Weightlifting Windsurfing Wrestling Wushu
Winter sports	Alpine skiing Bandy (men) Biathlon Bobsleigh / skeleton Curling men women mixed mixed doubles wheelchair Figure skating Freestyle skiing / snowboarding Ice hockey men women Luge Nordic skiing Speed skating allround single distances sprint short track
Cue & mind sports	Chess rapid blitz Darts BDO PDC Draughts men women Pool Nine-ball Ten-ball Snooker six-red
Motor sports	Air race Aquabike Endurance auto racing 2018–19 2019–20 Endurance motorcycle racing 2019–20 F1 Powerboat Formula One Motocross MotoGP Moto2 Moto3 MotoE Radio-controlled 1:10 off-road Rally Rallycross Rally raid Auto Moto Bajas auto Bajas moto Speedway individual team Sidecarcross Superbike Supersport Supersport 300 Touring car