Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

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{{Infobox Commonwealth Games event

|event = Badminton

|games = 2022

|image = 2022 Commonwealth Games Badminton.svg

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|caption =

|venue = National Exhibition Centre

|dates = 29 July – 8 August 2022

|competitors = 151

|nations = 29

|prev = 2018

|next = 2026

}}

File:The six medallists in the women's doubles.jpg

{{Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games}}

Badminton was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the fifteenth staging of badminton at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically.

The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across six events.{{cite web|url=https://www.birmingham2022.com/schedule/overview|title=Competition Schedule|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302111234/https://www.birmingham2022.com/schedule/overview|publisher=BOCCG|access-date=14 April 2022|archive-date=2 March 2022|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://resources.cwg-qbr.pulselive.com/qbr-commonwealth-games/document/2022/03/17/f1f01691-2243-4d8b-9561-a67e5185e749/B2022-CompetitionSchedule-March2022.pdf|title=Competition Schedule {{!}} Badminton|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414174349/https://resources.cwg-qbr.pulselive.com/qbr-commonwealth-games/document/2022/03/17/f1f01691-2243-4d8b-9561-a67e5185e749/B2022-CompetitionSchedule-March2022.pdf|publisher=BOCCG|pages=10, 11|access-date=14 April 2022|archive-date=14 April 2022|url-status=live}}

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:

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style="background-color:#FFBBBB;"|GPreliminary matches (group)

|style="background-color:#D0A9F5;"|P

Preliminary matches (knockout)

|style="background-color:#97DEFF;"|¼

Quarter-finals

|style="background-color:#BBF3BB;"|½

Semi-finals

|style="background-color:#FEDCBA;"|B

Bronze medal match

|style="background-color:#FFCC00;"|F

Gold medal match

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{{diagonal split header|Event|Date}} || colspan=3|Fri 29 || colspan=3|Sat 30 || colspan=2|Sun 31 || colspan=2|Mon 1 || colspan=2|Tue 2 || colspan=2|Wed 3 || colspan=2|Thu 4 || colspan=2|Fri 5 || colspan=2|Sat 6 || colspan=2|Sun 7 || Mon 8
Session → || M || A || E || M || A || E || A || E || A || E || A || E || M || E || M || E || A || E || A || E || M || E || M
style="text-align:left;" | Men's singlescolspan=3|colspan=3|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#97DEFF" |¼style="background-color:#BBF3BB;" |½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |F
style="text-align:left;" | Men's doublescolspan=3|colspan=3|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pstyle="background-color:#97DEFF" |¼style="background-color:#BBF3BB;" |½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |F
style="text-align:left;" | Women's singlescolspan=3|colspan=3|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pstyle="background-color:#97DEFF" |¼style="background-color:#BBF3BB;" |½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |F
style="text-align:left;" | Women's doublescolspan=3|colspan=3|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" |colspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pstyle="background-color:#97DEFF" |¼style="background-color:#BBF3BB;" |½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |F
style="text-align:left;" | Mixed doublescolspan=3|colspan=3|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pcolspan="2" style="background-color:#D0A9F5" |Pstyle="background-color:#97DEFF" |¼style="background-color:#BBF3BB;" |½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |F
style="text-align:left;" | Mixed teamcolspan="3" style="background-color:#FFBBBB" |Gcolspan="3" style="background-color:#FFBBBB" |Gcolspan="2" style="background-color:#97DEFF;" |¼colspan="2" style="background-color:#BBF3BB;"|½style="background-color:#FEDCBA;" |Bstyle="background-color:#FFCC00;" |Fcolspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|colspan=2|

Venue

The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull.{{cite web |title=NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES |url=https://www.thenec.co.uk/press-and-news/nec-will-host-six-sports-at-the-2022-commonwealth-games/ |publisher=The NEC |date=19 October 2018 |access-date=14 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226151929/https://www.thenec.co.uk/press-and-news/nec-will-host-six-sports-at-the-2022-commonwealth-games/ |archive-date=26 December 2021 |url-status=live}} Five other sports – boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting – also took place there.{{cite web |title=Venues {{!}} THE NEC|url=https://www.birmingham2022.com/venues/the-nec/|publisher=BOCCG|access-date=14 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029160718/https://www.birmingham2022.com/venues/the-nec/ |archive-date=29 October 2021 |url-status=live}}

Qualification (mixed team)

All nations were able to enter whoever they wish (up to five men and five women overall) in the singles and doubles events.

In addition, sixteen nations were also entitled to contest the mixed team event; subject to at least four CGF regions being represented and a minimum entry of two men / two women per team, they qualify as follows:{{cite web |title=CGF Sport Update |url=https://mcusercontent.com/f10a798540c235ff87d5c474b/files/838171b3-b717-ab0e-8307-817bc79a57b5/25_05_2022_CGF_Sport_Update_to_CGAs.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth Sport |access-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525231553/mcusercontent.com/f10a798540c235ff87d5c474b/files/838171b3-b717-ab0e-8307-817bc79a57b5/25_05_2022_CGF_Sport_Update_to_CGAs.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2022 |page=7 |date=25 May 2022 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |url=https://dochub.com/timskyrider/7vA0q9lw2mPeyyOVPDNOxd/badminton-team-b2022-athlete-allocation-system-revised-v2.pdf|title=Athlete Allocation System {{!}} Badminton Team|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414125649/https://dochub.com/timskyrider/7vA0q9lw2mPeyyOVPDNOxd/badminton-team-b2022-athlete-allocation-system-revised-v2.pdf|date=1 October 2021|publisher=Commonwealth Sport / BWF|access-date=14 April 2022|archive-date=14 April 2022|url-status=live}}

  • The host nation.
  • The top 14 nations in the BWF World Ranking as of 1 February 2022, excluding the host nation. Their highest-ranked players in each of the five individual rankings are added together to determine the combined ranking.
  • One nation not already qualified receives a CGF/BWF Bipartite Invitation.

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Means of qualification

!Date

!Quotas

!Qualified

Host nation

|{{n/a}}

|align=center|1

|{{bd|ENG}}

BWF World Ranking

|align=center|1 February 2022

|align=center|14

|{{bd|IND}}
{{bd|MAS}}
{{bd|CAN}}
{{bd|SGP}}
{{bd|SCO}}
{{bd|AUS}}
{{bd|NGR}}{{efn|name=mtq}}
{{bd|NZL}}{{efn|name=mtq|Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.}}
{{bd|SRI}}
{{bd|MRI}}
{{bd|RSA}}
{{bd|MDV}}
{{bd|UGA}}
{{bd|JAM}}
{{bd|BAR}}
{{bd|ZAM}}

Bipartite invitation

|align=center|8 March 2022

|align=center|1

|{{bd|PAK}}

TOTAL16

;Note

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In contrast to other sports with a qualifying system, all badminton player selections came from their nations' open allocation quotas regardless of mixed team qualification.

Medal summary

=Medal table=

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host = ENG

| flag_template = flagCGF

| event = 2022

| team =

| gold_IND = 3 | silver_IND = 1 | bronze_IND = 2

| gold_MAS = 2 | silver_MAS = 1 | bronze_MAS = 2

| gold_SGP = 1 | silver_SGP = 0 | bronze_SGP = 2

| gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 0

| gold_ENG = 0 | silver_ENG = 3 | bronze_ENG = 0 | host_ENG = yes

-->

}}

===Medalists===

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|labelwidth=150}}
Men's {{EventLink|singles|Men}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|Lakshya Sen|IND|2022}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|Ng Tze Yong|MAS|2022}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|Srikanth Kidambi|IND|2022}}

valign="top"

| Men's {{EventLink|doubles|Men}}

|{{flagCGF|IND|2022}}
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty

|{{flagCGF|ENG|2022}}
Ben Lane
Sean Vendy

|{{flagCGF|MAS|2022}}
Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik

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|colspan=4|

Women's {{EventLink|singles|Women}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|P. V. Sindhu|IND|2022}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|Michelle Li|CAN|2022}}

|{{flagCGFmedalist|Yeo Jia Min|SGP|2022}}

valign="top"

| Women's {{EventLink|doubles|Women}}

|{{flagCGF|MAS|2022}}
Pearly Tan
Thinaah Muralitharan

|{{flagCGF|ENG|2022}}
Chloe Birch
Lauren Smith

|{{flagCGF|IND|2022}}
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand

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|colspan=4|

valign="top"

| Mixed {{EventLink|doubles|Mixed}}

|{{flagCGF|SGP|2022}}
Terry Hee
Tan Wei Han

|{{flagCGF|ENG|2022}}
Marcus Ellis
Lauren Smith

|{{flagCGF|MAS|2022}}
Tan Kian Meng
Lai Pei Jing

valign="top"

| Mixed {{EventLink|team|Mixed}}

|{{flagCGF|MAS|2022}}
Ng Tze Yong
Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
Goh Jin Wei
Pearly Tan
Thinaah Muralitharan
Chan Peng Soon
Cheah Yee See
Tan Kian Meng
Lai Pei Jing

|{{flagCGF|IND|2022}}
Lakshya Sen
Srikanth Kidambi
B. Sumeeth Reddy
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty
P. V. Sindhu
Aakarshi Kashyap
Gayatri Gopichand
Treesa Jolly
Ashwini Ponnappa

|{{flagCGF|SGP|2022}}
Loh Kean Yew
Jason Teh
Terry Hee
Tan Wei Han
Loh Kean Hean
Andy Kwek
Yeo Jia Min
Jin Yujia
Crystal Wong
Nur Insyirah Khan

Participating nations

There were 29 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in badminton with a total of 151 (78 men and 73 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.{{cite web|url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/BDM/2022-07-28/BDM-------------------------------__C30_1.0.pdf|title=Badminton Number of Entries by CGA|date=28 July 2022|website=www.results.birmingham2022.com|publisher=Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games|access-date=30 July 2022}}

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  • {{flagCGF|AUS|2022|10}}
  • {{flagCGF|BAR|2022|4}}
  • {{flagCGF|CMR|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|CAN|2022|8}}
  • {{flagCGF|CYP|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|ENG|2022|10}}
  • {{flagCGF|FAI|2022|9}}
  • {{flagCGF|GGY|2022|4}}
  • {{flagCGF|GHA|2022|5}}
  • {{flagCGF|GUY|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|IND|2022|10}}
  • {{flagCGF|IOM|2022|1}}
  • {{flagCGF|JAM|2022|4}}
  • {{flagCGF|KEN|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|MAS|2022|10}}
  • {{flagCGF|MDV|2022|6}}
  • {{flagCGF|MLT|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|MRI|2022|8}}
  • {{flagCGF|NZL|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|NIR|2022|1}}
  • {{flagCGF|PAK|2022|4}}
  • {{flagCGF|SHN|2022|1}}
  • {{flagCGF|SCO|2022|9}}
  • {{flagCGF|SLE|2022|2}}
  • {{flagCGF|SGP|2022|10}}
  • {{flagCGF|RSA|2022|5}}
  • {{flagCGF|SRI|2022|6}}
  • {{flagCGF|UGA|2022|8}}
  • {{flagCGF|ZAM|2022|4}}

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References

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