Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's singles explained

Event:Badminton – Women's singles
Games:2023
Venue:Olympic Training Center
Competitors:35
Nations:19
Gold:Beiwen Zhang
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Jennie Gai
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Rachel Chan
Bronzenoc:CAN
Bronze2:Taymara Oropesa
Bronzenoc2:CUB
Prev:2019
Next:2027

The women's singles badminton event at the 2023 Pan American Games was held from October 21 to 25 at the Olympic Training Center, located in Ñuñoa, a suburb of Santiago.[1] [2] The defending Pan American Games champion is Michelle Li of Canada, who did not compete.

Each National Olympic Committee could enter a maximum of three athletes into the competition. The athletes will be drawn into an elimination stage draw. Once an athlete lost a match, they will be no longer able to compete. Each match will be contested as the best of three games.[3] A total of 35 athletes from 19 NOC's competed.

Qualification

See main article: Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of 90 athletes (45 men and 45 women) qualified to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of four athletes per gender (five if qualified through the 2021 Junior Pan American Games. As host nation, Chile automatically qualified a full team of eights athletes. All other quotas will be awarded through the team world rankings as of May 2, 2023. Each nation's highest ranked athlete/pair's points in each of the five events will be added to determine a country's point total.[3]

Seeds

The following athletes were seeded:[4]

  1. (champion, gold medalist)
  2. (third round)
  3. (third round)
  4. (semi-finals, bronze medalist)
  5. (quarter-finals)
  6. (quarter-finals)
  7. (final, silver medalist)
  8. (quarter-finals)

Results

Top half

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 4

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Santiago 2023 Officially Confirms Sports Venues. 14 June 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 21 August 2022.
  2. Web site: Sport Calendar Pan American Games. 21 July 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 10 August 2022.
  3. Web site: Qualification System manual. 11 April 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 5 October 2023.
  4. Web site: Seeded Entries. www.bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/. Badminton Pan Am. 5 October 2023.