Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

See main article: article and Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Olympic qualification period was between 2 May 2011 and 29 April 2012, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, published on 3 May 2012, was used to allocate spots.^[1] Nations can enter a total of three players. Three quota places if three players are ranked four or above, two if two players are ranked 16 or above and otherwise one quota place until the quota contingent of 38 is filled.

For each male player who qualifies in more than one discipline, an additional quota place in the Men's Singles becomes free. If no player from one continent can qualify, the best ranked player from this continent gets a quota place.^[2]

Qualifying criteria

The main qualifying criterion was the BWF Ranking list as of May 3, 2012. 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 were taken in turn unless a NOC had already qualified 3 players/pairs.
• Rankings 5–16: Players/pairs were taken in turn unless a NOC had already qualified 2 players/pairs.
• Rankings 17+: Players/pairs were taken in turn unless a NOC had 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 was qualified. If there was no player/pair in the rankings, the winner of the most recently contested Continental Championship was qualified. A country could only advantage from this rule twice.

The host nation (Great Britain) was entitled to enter 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, however the BWF decided to allocate wildcards to men only.^[2]

Qualification summary

NOC	Men's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Singles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles	Total
						width=60	Quotas	width=60	Athletes
		1	1	1		3	5
	1		1			2	2
	1		1			2	2
			1			1	1
			1			1	1
			1	1	1	3	4
	3	2	3	2	2	12	17
	1	1	2	1	1	6	8
	1		1			2	2
	2	1	1	1	2	7	9
			1			1	1
	1					1	1
	1		1			2	2
	1		1			2	2
	1	1	1		1	4	6
	1		1			1	3	4
	1					1	1
	1		1	1		3	4
			1			1	1
	1		1	1	1	4	5
	2	1	1	1	1	6	9
	1		1			2	2
	1					1	1
			1			1	1
	2	1	1	2	1	7	11
			1			1	1
	1	1	1		1	4	6
	1					1	1
			1			1	1
			1			1	1
			1			1	1
	1		1			2	2
	1	1	1		1	4	6
	1		1			2	2
	1	1	1	1	1	5	6
	1		1	1		3	4
			1			1	1
			1			1	1
		1		1		2	4
	2	2	2	2	1	9	12
	1		1			2	2
	1		1			2	2
			1			1	1
	1					1	1
	1					1	1
	1	1	1		1	4	6
			1			1	1
	1					1	1
	1		1			2	2
		1	1			2	3
	1					1	1
Total: 57 NOCs	40	16	46	16	16	134	172

Qualifiers

The color pink signifies that a player was withdrawn from the competition.

Men's singles

No.	Rank	Player	NOC	Note
1	1	Lee Chong Wei		Asia
2	2	Lin Dan
3	3	Chen Long
4	4	Chen Jin
5	5	Peter Gade		Europe
6	6	Sho Sasaki
7	7	Lee Hyun-il
8	8	Kenichi Tago
9	9	Simon Santoso
10	11	Nguyễn Tiến Minh
11	12	Taufik Hidayat
12	13	Jan Ø. Jørgensen
13	14	Shon Wan-ho
14	15	Marc Zwiebler
15	19	Rajiv Ouseph
16	20	Wong Wing Ki
17	22	Pablo Abian
18	24	Kashyap Parupalli
19	25	Hsu Jen-hao
20	28	Boonsak Ponsana
21	29	Kevin Cordón		Pan America
22	34	Przemysław Wacha
23	36	Brice Leverdez
24	37	Ville Lang
	40	Eric Pang		Europe
25	42	Derek Wong
26	43	Henri Hurskainen
27	45	Vladimir Ivanov
28	46	Dmytro Zavadsky
29	47	Niluka Karunaratne
30	50	Yuhan Tan
31	59	Pedro Martins
32	60	Michael Lahnsteiner
33	64	Misha Zilberman
34	65	Rodrigo Pacheco		Re-distributed doubles quota
35	66	Raul Must		Re-distributed doubles quota
36	67	Scott Evans		Re-distributed unused quota
37	70	Petr Koukal		Re-distributed unused quota
38	98	Edwin Ekiring		Africa
	121	James Eunson		Oceania
39	221	Virgil Soeroredjo		Tripartite invitation
40	226	Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed		Tripartite invitation

Women's singles

No.	Rank	Player	NOC	Note
1	1	Wang Yihan		Asia
2	2	Wang Xin
	3	Wang Shixian
3	4	Li Xuerui		Re-distributed unused quota
4	5	Saina Nehwal
5	7	Tine Baun		Europe
6	8	Juliane Schenk
7	9	Cheng Shao-chieh
8	10	Sung Ji-hyun
9	11	Ratchanok Intanon
10	12	Tai Tzu-ying
11	13	Bae Youn-joo
12	15	Sayaka Sato
13	16	Gu Juan
14	18	Yao Jie
15	20	Petya Nedelcheva
16	21	Pi Hongyan
17	22	Michelle Li		Pan America
18	23	Yip Pui Yin
19	27	Carolina Marín
20	33	Agnese Allegrini
	34	Maria Febe Kusumastuti
21	36	Susan Egelstaff
22	37	Neslihan Yiğit
23	39	Anastasia Prokopenko
24	40	Adrianti Firdasari		Re-distributed unused quota
	41	Jeanine Cicognini
25	44	Chloe Magee
26	45	Larisa Griga
	46	Michelle Chan Kit Ying		Oceania
27	47	Kristina Gavnholt
28	55	Lianne Tan
29	57	Rena Wang
30	59	Tee Jing Yi
	65	Anne Hald Jensen
31	68	Victoria Montero
32	69	Sabrina Jaquet		Re-distributed unused quota
33	70	Anu Nieminen
34	71	Telma Santos
35	72	Ragna Ingolfsdottir
36	75	Victoria Na		Re-distributed doubles quota
37	76	Kamila Augustyn		Re-distributed doubles quota
	80	Claudia Mayer		Re-distributed doubles quota
38	84	Simone Prutsch		Re-distributed unused quota
39	87	Maja Tvrdy		Re-distributed doubles quota
40	89	Akvile Stapusaityte		Re-distributed doubles quota
41	90	Claudia Rivero		Re-distributed doubles quota
42	99	Monika Fasungova		Re-distributed doubles quota
43	101	Alesia Zaitsava		Re-distributed doubles quota
44	102	Hadia Hosny		Africa
	103	Kerry-Lee Harrington		Re-distributed unused quota
45	105	Sara Blengsli Kværnø		Re-distributed unused quota
46	109	Thilini Jayasinghe		Re-distributed unused quota

Men's doubles

No.	Rank	Players		NOC	Note
1	1	Cai Yun	Fu Haifeng		Asia
2	2		Lee Yong-dae
3	3		Carsten Mogensen		Europe
4	4		Yoo Yeon-seong
5	5	Chai Biao	Guo Zhendong
6	6		Bona Septano
7	7		Lee Sheng-mu
8	8		Tan Boon Heong
9	11		Shoji Sato
10	17		Maneepong Jongjit
11	18		Johannes Schöttler
12	20		Ivan Sozonov
13	21		Tony Gunawan		Pan America
14	22		Michal Logosz
15	33		Glenn Warfe		Oceania
16	48		Willem Viljoen		Africa

Women's doubles

No.	Rank	Players		NOC	Note
1	1	Wang Xiaoli	Yu Yang		Asia
2	2		Zhao Yunlei
3	3		Kim Min-jung
4	4		Reika Kakiiwa
5	5	Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Christinna Pedersen		Europe
6	6		Satoko Suetsuna
7	8		Kim Ha-na
8	10		Chien Yu-chin
9	12		Meiliana Jauhari
10	13		Yao Lei
11	15		Tse Ying Suet
12	16		Ashwini Ponnappa
13	18		Nina Vislova
14	28		Michelle Li		Pan America
15	35		Renuga Veeran		Oceania
16	44		Annari Viljoen		Africa

Mixed doubles

No.	Rank	Players		NOC	Note
1	1	Zhang Nan	Zhao Yunlei		Asia
2	2		Ma Jin
3	3		Liliyana Natsir
4	4		Christinna Pedersen		Europe
5	5		Cheng Wen-hsing
6	6	Thomas Laybourn	Kamilla Rytter Juhl
7	7		Ha Jung-eun
8	8		Saralee Thungthongkam
9	9		Goh Liu Ying
10	10		Imogen Bankier
11	11		Reiko Shiota
12	12		Valeria Sorokina
13	14		Jwala Gutta
14	16		Birgit Michels
15	19		Nadieżda Zięba
16	26		Grace Gao		Pan America

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olympics. 8 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120807174825/http://www.bwfbadminton.org/page.aspx?id=14900. 7 August 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Badminton qualification 2012 Olympics . 2012-05-09 . 2015-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221526/http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=22692 . dead .