Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was the 15th appearance of Badminton at the Commonwealth Games. The badminton competition was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the fifteenth staging since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically.
| Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | |
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| Venue | National Exhibition Centre |
| Dates | 29 July – 8 August 2022 |
| Competitors | 151 from 29 nations |
The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across six events.[1][2]
Schedule
The competition schedule is as follows:[1][2]
| G | Preliminary matches (group) | P | Preliminary matches (knockout) | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
Date Event | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | ||||||||||||
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| Session → | M | A | E | M | A | E | A | E | A | E | A | E | M | E | M | E | A | E | A | E | M | E | M |
| Men's singles | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's doubles | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||
| Women's singles | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's doubles | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||
| Mixed doubles | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Mixed team | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||
Venue
The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull.[3] Five other sports – boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting – also took place there.[4]
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:[5][6]
- 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.
| Means of qualification | Date | Quotas | Qualified |
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| Host nation | N/a | 1 |  England |
| BWF World Ranking | 1 February 2022 | 14 |  India Malaysia Canada Singapore Scotland Australia Nigeria New Zealand Sri Lanka Mauritius South Africa Maldives Uganda Jamaica Barbados Zambia |
| Bipartite invitation | 8 March 2022 | 1 |  Pakistan |
| TOTAL | 16 |
- Note
- Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.
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
* Host nation (England)
Medalists
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.[7]
Australia (10)
Barbados (4)
Cameroon (2)
Canada (8)
Cyprus (2)
England (10)
Falkland Islands (9)
Guernsey (4)
Ghana (5)
Guyana (2)
India (10)
Isle of Man (1)
Jamaica (4)
Kenya (2)
Malaysia (10)
Maldives (6)
Malta (2)
Mauritius (8)
New Zealand (2)
Northern Ireland (1)
Pakistan (4)
Saint Helena (1)
Scotland (9)
Sierra Leone (2)
Singapore (10)
South Africa (5)
Sri Lanka (6)
Uganda (8)
Zambia (4)
