Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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 criterion 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 were allocated by the IOC Tripartite Commission.^[1]

Summary

NOC	Men's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Singles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles	Total
NOC	Men's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Singles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles	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 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 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
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

^ Olympic Qualifying Regulations for Beijing 2008^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 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
^ 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
^ Remove from Olympic Men's Singles List^{[permanent dead link]} as of July 7, 2008.
^ "Zambia's top badminton player gets Beijing Olympic berth". Xinhuanet. 2008-06-19. Archived from the original on August 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
^ ^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.
^ "Olympics - Dream Shattered For Yao Jie". Badzine.info. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
^ 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]
^ ^a ^b Remove from Olympic Women's Singles List^{[permanent dead link]} as of June 30, 2008.
^ Remove from Olympic Men's Doubles List^{[permanent dead link]} as of June 15, 2008.
^ Remove from Olympic Mixed Doubles List^{[permanent dead link]} as of June 15, 2008.