Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles explained

Event:Men's doubles
Games:2024 Summer
Venue:Porte de La Chapelle Arena
Dates:27 July – 4 August 2024
Competitors:34
Teams:17
Nations:15
Gold:Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
Goldnoc:TPE
Silver:Liang Weikeng
Wang Chang
Silvernoc:CHN
Bronze:Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
Bronzenoc:MAS
Prev:2020 Tokyo
Next:2028

The men's doubles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 27 July to 4 August 2024 at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena in Paris.[1] A total of 34 players from 15 nations competed at the tournament. Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin, who represented Chinese Taipei, were the defending Olympic champions. They successfully retained their Olympic title, becoming the first men's doubles pair to do so together and the first consecutive Olympic badminton champions not to represent the People's Republic of China.[2]

Format

The 17 teams were split into three groups of four pairs and one group of five pairs. They played a round-robin tournament with the top-two ranked teams advancing to the knockout stage. Each match was played in a best-of-3.[3]

Schedule

The schedule is as follows.

PPreliminariesQFQuarter-finalsSFSemi-finalsMMedal matches
27 Jul 28 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul 1 Aug 2 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug
P QF SF M

Draw

The group stage draw was scheduled to be held on 12 July 2024 but was postponed[4] [5] to 15 July 2024.[6] [7] The knockout stage draw was held on 31 July 2024.[8]

Seeds

The top four teams of the BWF World Ranking were seeded.[9]

  1. (silver medalists)
  2. (fourth place)
  3. (quarter-finals)
  4. (quarter-finals)

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A

DateTimePlayer 1ScorePlayer 2Set 1Set 2Set 3Report
27 July 09:20Liang Weikeng
Wang Chang
2–0 Adam Dong
Nyl Yakura
21–5 21–12 Report
10:10Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
2–1 Ben Lane
Sean Vendy
19–21 21–16 21–11Report
28 July 09:20Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
2–0 Adam Dong
Nyl Yakura
21–10 21–15 Report
10:10Liang Weikeng
Wang Chang
2–1 Ben Lane
Sean Vendy
21–18 13–21 21–14Report
29 July 20:20Ben Lane
Sean Vendy
2–0 Adam Dong
Nyl Yakura
21–14 21–12 Report
21:10Liang Weikeng
Wang Chang
2–0 Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
24–22 21–14 Report

Group B

DateTimePlayer 1ScorePlayer 2Set 1Set 2Set 3Report
27 July 19:30Supak Jomkoh
Kittinupong Kedren
2–0 Christo Popov
Toma Junior Popov
21–14 21–19 Report
22:00Kang Min-hyuk
Seo Seung-jae
2–0 Ondřej Král
Adam Mendrek
21–12 21–17 Report
28 July 14:00Kang Min-hyuk
Seo Seung-jae
2–0 Christo Popov
Toma Junior Popov
21–17 21–15 Report
16:30Supak Jomkoh
Kittinupong Kedren
2–0 Ondřej Král
Adam Mendrek
21–10 21–13 Report
30 July 15:40Kang Min-hyuk
Seo Seung-jae
2–0 Supak Jomkoh
Kittinupong Kedren
21–16 21–15 Report
21:10Christo Popov
Toma Junior Popov
2–0 Ondřej Král
Adam Mendrek
21–18 21–19 Report

Group C

DateTimePlayer 1ScorePlayer 2Set 1Set 2Set 3Report
27 July 14:502–0 Mark Lamsfuß
Marvin Seidel
21–13 21–17 Report
16:30Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty
2–0 Lucas Corvée
Ronan Labar
21–17 21–14 Report
29 July 11:00Fajar Alfian
Muhammad Rian Ardianto
2–0 Lucas Corvée
Ronan Labar
21–13 21–10 Report
30 July 14:00Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Chirag Shetty
2–0 Fajar Alfian
Muhammad Rian Ardianto
21–1321–13 Report

Group D

DateTimePlayer 1ScorePlayer 2Set 1Set 2Set 3Report
27 July 21:10Takuro Hoki
Yugo Kobayashi
0–2 Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
16–2110–21 Report
22:00Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
2–0 Vinson Chiu
Joshua Yuan
21–13 21–16 Report
28 July 20:201–2 Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
15–21 21–19 15–21Report
21:10Liu Yuchen
Ou Xuanyi
2–0 Vinson Chiu
Joshua Yuan
21–13 21–14 Report
29 July 15:40Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
2–0 Liu Yuchen
Ou Xuanyi
21–15 21–13 Report
19:30Takuro Hoki
Yugo Kobayashi
2–0 Vinson Chiu
Joshua Yuan
21–11 21–12 Report
30 July 11:00Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
2–0 Vinson Chiu
Joshua Yuan
21–12 21–13 Report
15:40Takuro Hoki
Yugo Kobayashi
0–2 Liu Yuchen
Ou Xuanyi
20–22 18–21 Report
31 July 14:00Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
2–0 Takuro Hoki
Yugo Kobayashi
21–19 22–20 Report
Liu Yuchen
Ou Xuanyi
1–2 Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
21–17 17–21 22–24Report

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Olympic Schedule – Badminton . 1 June 2024 . Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  2. News: Badminton: Taiwan's Lee, Wang retain men's doubles gold. 4 August 2024. 4 August 2024 . Richa. Naidu. Reuters. Lawson . Hugh . Osmond . Ed .
  3. Web site: Regulations for Badminton competition Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 11 July 2024. badmintonpanam.org. Badminton Pan America.
  4. Web site: Olympic Games Draw & Reallocations. 25 June 2024. 25 June 2024. corporate.bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation.
  5. Web site: Paris 2024 Men's Doubles Draw Postponed. 12 July 2024. 12 July 2024. olympics.bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation.
  6. Web site: Corvée/Labar confirmed for Paris 2024; 17-pair men's doubles draw moved to Monday. 14 July 2024. 14 July 2024. olympics.bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation.
  7. Web site: Men's Doubles Groups Decided. 15 July 2024. 15 July 2024. Badminton World Federation . olympics.bwfbadminton.com.
  8. Web site: Olympic Games Paris 2024 Doubles Knockout Draws. 2 August 2024. 29 July 2024. olympics.bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation.
  9. Web site: Athletes set for Paris: Olympic qualifiers announced. 17 May 2024. 17 May 2024. badmintoneurope.com. Badminton Europe.