Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...
was one of the sports contested at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England b ...
, held in
Birmingham
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,
England
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. 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, spreaded across six events.
Schedule
The competition schedule is as follows:
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Venue
The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull
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. Five other sports – boxing
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, netball
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, para powerlifting, table tennis
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, and weightlifting
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– also took place there.
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:
* The host nation.
* The top 14 nations in the BWF World Ranking
The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships an ...
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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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
Medalists
Participating nations
There were 29 articipating Commonwealth Games Associations
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(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.
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References
External links
Official website: 2022 Commonwealth Games – Badminton
{{Sports at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the ex ...
2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England b ...