Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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A total of 173 players was planned to compete in badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Of them, 16 pairs competed in each doubles events, 41 players competed in the men's singles event and 47 players competed in the women's singles event.

Qualifying criteria[]

The main qualifying criteria was the BWF Ranking list as of May 1, 2008. It provided a total of 16 pairs in each doubles event and 38 athletes in each singles event, in the following manner:

  • Rankings 1–4: Players/pairs will be taken in turn unless a NOC has already qualified 3 players/pairs.
  • Rankings 5–16: Players/pairs will be taken in turn unless a NOC has already qualified 2 players/pairs.
  • Rankings 17+: Players/pairs will be taken in turn unless a NOC has already qualified 1 player/pair.

Each continent was guaranteed one entry in each event. If this was not satisfied by the entry selection method described above, the highest ranking player/pair had qualified. If there wa no player/pair in the rankings, the winner of the most recently contested Continental Championship was qualified.

The host nation (People's Republic of China) entered 2 players in total, but more than 2 players were permitted if they all qualified under qualifying regulations.

There were also 2 invitational places in each singles event which was 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 Nguyễn Tiến 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-hsing  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 Boesiger  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 Ingólfsdóttir  Iceland
31 59 Ana Moura  Portugal
32 60 Maja Tvrdy  Slovenia
33 65 Eva Lee  United States
34 69 Kristína Ludíková  Czech Republic
35 75 Lê Ngọc Nguyên Nhung  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 Akvilė Stapušaitytė  Lithuania
— 116 Nathalie Descamps  Belgium [9]
44 118 Deyanira Angulo  Mexico
45 119 Eva Sládeková  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 Hwang Ji-man / Lee Jae-jin  South Korea
10 11 Shintaro Ikeda / Shuichi Sakamoto  Japan
11 12 Jens Eriksen / Martin Lundgaard Hansen  Denmark
12 14 Keita Masuda / Tadashi Ohtsuka  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 Ross Smith / Glenn Warfe  Australia
16 55 Chris Dednam / Roelof 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 Wei Yili / Zhang Yawen  China
4 4 Lee Hyo-jung / Lee Kyung-won  South Korea
5 5 Cheng Wen-hsing / Chien Yu-chin  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 Vita Marissa / Liliyana Natsir  Indonesia
10 10 Chin Eei Hui / Wong Pei Tty  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 Chantal Botts / Michelle Edwards  South Africa

Mixed doubles[]

No. Rank Players NOC Note
1 1 Nova Widianto / Liliyana 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[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Eric Pang was forced to withdraw due to the strict qualification rules set out by the Dutch Olympic Committee Badzine.info Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Maghus Sahlberg withdrew from the competition with unknown reason after a meeting with Swedish Olympic Council Badzine.info Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Remove from Olympic Men's Singles List[permanent dead link] as of July 7, 2008.
  5. ^ "Zambia's top badminton player gets Beijing Olympic berth". Xinhuanet. 2008-06-19. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
  6. ^ Jump up to: 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.Badzine.info 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. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. 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 [1]
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Remove from Olympic Women's Singles List[permanent dead link] as of June 30, 2008.
  10. ^ Remove from Olympic Men's Doubles List[permanent dead link] as of June 15, 2008.
  11. ^ Remove from Olympic Mixed Doubles List[permanent dead link] as of June 15, 2008.

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