Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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There are 172 quota places available for qualification for badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The Olympic qualification period takes place between April 29, 2019 and April 25, 2021, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, scheduled to publish on June 15, 2021, will be used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles if both are ranked in the world's top 16; otherwise, one quota place until the roster of thirty-eight players has been completed. Similar regulations also apply to the players competing in the doubles, as the NOCs (National Olympic Committees) can enter a maximum of two pairs if both are ranked in the top eight, while the remaining NOCs are entitled to one until the quota of 16 highest-ranked pairs is filled.[2]

On May 28, 2021, the Badminton World Federation had confirmed that there is no further tournament to be played inside the qualifying window due to events being cancelled or postponed from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As such, while the qualification period technically closes on 15 June 2021, the current Race to Tokyo rankings list will not now be changed prior to that date, and the current standings are the final standings for the purposes of qualification. Further places may yet be made available, however, by withdrawals.[3]

Qualifying standards[]

Qualification of these Games will be based on the BWF Ranking list to be published on 15 June 2021, which will be based on results achieved during the period 29 April 2019 to 15 March 2020, and 4 January 2021 to 13 June 2021, providing a total of 16 pairs in each doubles event, and an initial allocation of 38 players in each singles event in the following criteria:[4]

  • Singles:
    • Ranking 1-16: Players are taken in turn. A NOC may enter up to a maximum of 2 players, provided both are ranked in the top 16.
    • Ranking 17 and below: Players are taken in turn. A NOC may enter a maximum of 1 player.
  • Doubles:
    • Rankings 1–8: Pairs are taken in turn. A NOC may enter up to a maximum of 2 pairs, provided both pairs are ranked in the top 8.
    • Rankings 9 and below: Pairs are taken in turn. A NOC may enter a maximum of 1 pair.

Each of the five continental confederations will be guaranteed at least one entry in each singles and doubles event (this is called the Continental Representation Place system). If this has not been satisfied by the entry selection method described above, the highest ranked player or pair from the respective continent will qualify. An NOC can qualify players or pairs in a maximum of two events through the Continental Representation Place system; if a NOC qualifies for more than two events through the Continental Representation Place system, the NOC must choose which of them are qualified, and the quota place declined will be offered to the next NOC's eligible player or pair.[2]

Host nation Japan is entitled to enter a male and a female badminton player in each of the singles tournaments, but more than two players may be permitted if they achieve the qualifying regulations. Meanwhile, six quota places are made available to eligible NOCs through the Tripartite Commission Invitation, with three each in the men's and women's singles. The Tripartite Commission invitation places count for the Continental Representation Place system.[2]

For any player who qualifies in both a doubles event and a singles event, an unused quota place will be allocated to the next best ranked eligible athlete of a respective gender in the singles events on the BWF Ranking List as of 15 June 2021. This ensures that a total of 86 men and 86 women qualify, with the individual event fields expanding from 38 to accommodate additional players.[2]

Qualification summary[]

NOC Men Women Mixed Total
Singles Doubles Singles Doubles Doubles Quotas Athletes
 Australia 1 1 1 3 4
 Austria 1 1 1
 Azerbaijan 1 1 1
 Belgium 1 1 1
 Brazil 1 1 2 2
 Bulgaria 1 1 2 3
 Canada 1 1 1 1 1 5 8
 China 2 1 2 2 2 9 14
 Denmark 2 1 1 1 1 6 9
 Egypt 1 1 1 3 3
 Estonia 1 1 2 2
 Finland 1 1 1
 France 1 1 1 3 4
 Germany 1 1 1 1 4 5
 Great Britain 1 1 1 1 1 5 7
 Guatemala 1 1 2 2
 Hong Kong 1 1 1 3 4
 Hungary 1 1 2 2
 India 1 1 1 3 4
 Indonesia 2 2 1 1 1 7 11
 Iran 1 1 1
 Ireland 1 1 1
 Israel 1 1 2 2
 Japan 2 2 2 2 1 9 13
 Malaysia 1 1 1 1 1 5 8
 Maldives 1 1 1
 Malta 1 1 1
 Mauritius 1 1 1
 Mexico 1 1 2 2
 Myanmar 1 1 1
 Netherlands 1 1 1 3 4
 Nigeria 1 1 2 3
 Pakistan 1 1 1
 Peru 1 1 1
 Refugee Olympic Team 1 1 1
 ROC 1 1 1 3 4
 Singapore 1 1 2 2
 Slovakia 1 1 1
 South Korea 1 1 2 2 1 7 10
 Spain 1 1 2 2
 Sri Lanka 1 1 1
 Sweden 1 1 1
 Switzerland 1 1 1
 Chinese Taipei 2 1 1 4 5
 Thailand 1 2 1 1 5 7
 Turkey 1 1 1
 Ukraine 1 1 2 2
 United States 1 1 1 3 4
 Vietnam 1 1 2 2
Total: 49 NOCs 41 16 43 16 16 132 172

Official ranking[]

All of the event was postponed and rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men's singles[]

As of 18 May 2021[5]
No. QR Player Country Note
1 1 Kento Momota  Japan (JPN) Continental place: Asia
2 2 Chou Tien-chen  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
3 3 Anders Antonsen  Denmark (DEN) Continental place: Europe
4 4 Viktor Axelsen  Denmark (DEN)
5 5 Anthony Sinisuka Ginting  Indonesia (INA)
6 6 Chen Long  China (CHN)
7 7 Jonatan Christie  Indonesia (INA)
8 8 Ng Ka Long  Hong Kong (HKG)
9 9 Lee Zii Jia  Malaysia (MAS)
10 10 Wang Tzu-wei  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
11 11 Shi Yuqi  China (CHN)
12 12 Kanta Tsuneyama  Japan (JPN)
13 13 B. Sai Praneeth  India (IND)
14 14 Kantaphon Wangcharoen  Thailand (THA)
15 31 Heo Kwang-hee  South Korea (KOR)
16 34 Brice Leverdez  France (FRA)
17 35 Mark Caljouw  Netherlands (NED)
18 36 Loh Kean Yew  Singapore (SGP)
19 43 Brian Yang  Canada (CAN) Continental place: Pan America
20 44 Pablo Abián  Spain (ESP)
21 45 Misha Zilberman  Israel (ISR)
22 49 Ygor Coelho de Oliveira  Brazil (BRA)
23 52 Toby Penty  Great Britain (GBR)
24 53 Felix Burestedt  Sweden (SWE)
25 58 Kevin Cordón  Guatemala (GUA)
26 60 Nhat Nguyen  Ireland (IRL)
27 63 Lino Muñoz  Mexico (MEX)
28 64 Kalle Koljonen  Finland (FIN)
29 67 Sergey Sirant  ROC
30 68 Kai Schäfer  Germany (GER)
31 69 Ade Resky Dwicahyo  Azerbaijan (AZE)
32 71 Nguyễn Tiến Minh  Vietnam (VIE)
33 78 Georges Paul  Mauritius (MRI) Continental place: Africa
34 79 Raul Must  Estonia (EST)
103 Abhinav Manota  New Zealand (NZL) Continental place: Oceania (Declined)[6]
35 99 Niluka Karunaratne  Sri Lanka (SRI) Tripartite invitation
36 266 Sören Opti  Suriname (SUR) Tripartite invitation (withdraw after tested positive of Covid-19)[7]
37 332 Matthew Abela  Malta (MLT) Tripartite invitation
38 170 Aram Mahmoud  Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) Invitational place[8]
39 82 Luka Wraber  Austria (AUT) Reallocation place
40 84 Artem Pochtarov  Ukraine (UKR) Reallocation place
41 89 Timothy Lam  United States (USA) Reallocation place
42 91 Gergely Krausz  Hungary (HUN) Reallocation place[6][9]

Women's singles[]

As of 18 May 2021[10]
No. QR Player Country Note
1 1 Chen Yufei  China (CHN) Continental place: Asia
2 2 Tai Tzu-ying  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
3 3 Nozomi Okuhara  Japan (JPN)
— 4 Carolina Marín  Spain (ESP) Continental place: Europe (Declined)[11]
4 5 Akane Yamaguchi  Japan (JPN)
5 6 Ratchanok Intanon  Thailand (THA)
6 7 P. V. Sindhu  India (IND)
7 8 An Se-young  South Korea (KOR)
8 9 He Bingjiao  China (CHN)
9 10 Michelle Li  Canada (CAN) Continental place: Pan America
10 12 Busanan Ongbamrungphan  Thailand (THA)
11 14 Beiwen Zhang  United States (USA)
12 16 Kim Ga-eun  South Korea (KOR)
13 18 Mia Blichfeldt  Denmark (DEN)
14 20 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung  Indonesia (INA)
15 23 Evgeniya Kosetskaya  ROC
16 25 Yeo Jia Min  Singapore (SGP)
17 26 Kirsty Gilmour  Great Britain (GBR)
18 27 Soniia Cheah Su Ya  Malaysia (MAS)
19 29 Neslihan Yiğit  Turkey (TUR)
20 34 Cheung Ngan Yi  Hong Kong (HKG)
21 37 Qi Xuefei  France (FRA)
22 41 Yvonne Li  Germany (GER)
23 42 Lianne Tan  Belgium (BEL)
24 47 Nguyễn Thùy Linh  Vietnam (VIE)
25 50 Sabrina Jaquet  Switzerland (SUI)
26 52 Ksenia Polikarpova  Israel (ISR)
27 54 Kristin Kuuba  Estonia (EST)
28 56 Thet Htar Thuzar  Myanmar (MYA)
— 58 Soraya de Visch Eijbergen  Netherlands (NED) Declined
29 61 Laura Sárosi  Hungary (HUN)
30 62 Linda Zetchiri  Bulgaria (BUL)
31 63 Chen Hsuan-yu  Australia (AUS) Continental place: Oceania
— 67 Jordan Hart  Poland (POL) Ineligible
— 68 Airi Mikkelä  Finland (FIN) Declined[12]
32 70 Daniela Macías  Peru (PER)
33 71 Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan  Nigeria (NGR) Continental place: Africa
34 72 Martina Repiská  Slovakia (SVK)
35 69 Fabiana Silva  Brazil (BRA) Reallocation from tripartite slot
36 76 Haramara Gaitan  Mexico (MEX)
37 121 Mahoor Shahzad  Pakistan (PAK) Tripartite invitation
38 221 Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq  Maldives (MDV) Tripartite invitation
39 83 Marija Ulitina  Ukraine (UKR) Reallocation place
40 87 Clara Azurmendi  Spain (ESP) Reallocation place
41 94 Nikté Sotomayor  Guatemala (GUA) Reallocation place
42 98 Doha Hany  Egypt (EGY) Reallocation place
43 99 Sorayya Aghaei  Iran (IRI) Reallocation place

Players highlighted in red states they are not participating at the 2020 Olympics

Men's doubles[]

As of 18 May 2021[13]
No. QR Player Country Note
1 1 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon  Indonesia (INA) Continental place: Asia
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
2 2 Mohammad Ahsan  Indonesia (INA)
Hendra Setiawan
3 3 Li Junhui  China (CHN)
Liu Yuchen
4 4 Hiroyuki Endo  Japan (JPN)
Yuta Watanabe
5 5 Takeshi Kamura  Japan (JPN)
Keigo Sonoda
6 7 Lee Yang  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
Wang Chi-lin
7 8 Choi Sol-gyu  South Korea (KOR)
Seo Seung-jae
8 9 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy  India (IND)
Chirag Shetty
9 10 Aaron Chia  Malaysia (MAS)
Soh Wooi Yik
10 11 Kim Astrup  Denmark (DEN) Continental place: Europe
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
11 15 Mark Lamsfuß  Germany (GER)
Marvin Seidel
12 18 Vladimir Ivanov  ROC
Ivan Sozonov
— 19 Marcus Ellis  Great Britain (GBR) Declined
Chris Langridge
13 25 Ben Lane  Great Britain (GBR) Selected by the national association[note 1]
Sean Vendy
14 32 Jason Ho-shue  Canada (CAN) Continental place: Pan America
Nyl Yakura
— 36 Jelle Maas  Netherlands (NED) Declined
Robin Tabeling
15 37 Phillip Chew  United States (USA) Reallocation place
Ryan Chew
16 44 Godwin Olofua  Nigeria (NGR) Continental place: Africa
Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori

Pairs highlighted in red states they are not participating at the 2020 Olympics

  1. ^ Badminton England announced that Lane and Vendy who will representing Great Britain in the men's doubles.[14]

Women's doubles[]

As of 18 May 2021[15]
No. QR Player Country Note
1 1 Yuki Fukushima  Japan (JPN) Continental place: Asia
Sayaka Hirota
2 2 Chen Qingchen  China (CHN)
Jia Yifan
3 3 Mayu Matsumoto  Japan (JPN)
Wakana Nagahara
4 4 Lee So-hee  South Korea (KOR)
Shin Seung-chan
5 5 Kim So-yeong  South Korea (KOR)
Kong Hee-yong
6 6 Du Yue  China (CHN)
Li Yinhui
7 7 Greysia Polii  Indonesia (INA)
Apriyani Rahayu
8 11 Gabriela Stoeva  Bulgaria (BUL) Continental place: Europe
Stefani Stoeva
9 12 Jongkolphan Kititharakul  Thailand (THA)
Rawinda Prajongjai
10 14 Chow Mei Kuan  Malaysia (MAS)
Lee Meng Yean
11 15 Maiken Fruergaard  Denmark (DEN)
Sara Thygesen
12 16 Chloe Birch  Great Britain (GBR)
Lauren Smith
13 17 Selena Piek  Netherlands (NED)
Cheryl Seinen
14 18 Rachel Honderich  Canada (CAN) Continental place: Pan America
Kristen Tsai
15 23 Setyana Mapasa  Australia (AUS) Continental place: Oceania
Gronya Somerville
16 40 Doha Hany  Egypt (EGY) Continental place: Africa
Hadia Hosny

Mixed doubles[]

As of 18 May 2021[16]
No. QR Player Country Note
1 1 Zheng Siwei  China (CHN) Continental place: Asia
Huang Yaqiong
2 2 Wang Yilyu  China (CHN)
Huang Dongping
3 3 Dechapol Puavaranukroh  Thailand (THA)
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
4 4 Praveen Jordan  Indonesia (INA)
Melati Daeva Oktavianti
5 5 Yuta Watanabe  Japan (JPN)
Arisa Higashino
6 6 Seo Seung-jae  South Korea (KOR)
Chae Yoo-jung
7 7 Chan Peng Soon  Malaysia (MAS)
Goh Liu Ying
8 8 Marcus Ellis  Great Britain (GBR) Continental place: Europe
Lauren Smith
9 10 Tang Chun Man  Hong Kong (HKG)
Tse Ying Suet
10 14 Thom Gicquel  France (FRA)
Delphine Delrue
11 15 Robin Tabeling  Netherlands (NED)
Selena Piek
12 16 Mark Lamsfuß  Germany (GER)
Isabel Herttrich
13 17 Mathias Christiansen  Denmark (DEN)
Alexandra Bøje
14 31 Joshua Hurlburt-Yu  Canada (CAN) Continental place: Pan America
Josephine Wu
15 44 Adham Hatem Elgamal  Egypt (EGY) Continental place: Africa
Doha Hany
16 48 Simon Leung  Australia (AUS) Continental place: Oceania
Gronya Somerville

References[]

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