Badminton at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification explained

Qualification for badminton at the 2024 Summer Paralympics begins on 1 January 2023 and ends on 31 March 2024. There are expected to be 120 slots (60 male, 60 female) for the sport across sixteen medal events.^[1] ^[2]

Timeline

Eligible athletes have to gain points in order to qualify to compete at the Games, they must participate in a minimum of three qualifying tournaments. The list will be published on 2 April 2024.^[3]

Competition	Dates	Venue
Spanish Para Badminton International 2023	20–26 February 2023	Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spanish Para Badminton International Toledo 2023	1–5 March 2023	Toledo
Brazil Para Badminton International 2023	10–16 April 2023	Sao Paulo
Thailand Para Badminton International 2023	9–14 May 2023	Pattaya
Bahrain Para Badminton International 2023	17–23 May 2023	Manama
Canada Para Badminton International 2023	14–18 June 2023	Ottawa
Uganda Para Badminton International 2023	3–9 July 2023	Kampala
Africa Para Badminton Championships 2023	11–16 July 2023	Kampala
4 Nations Para Badminton International 2023^[4]	2–6 August 2023	Sheffield
	15–20 August 2023	Rotterdam
Indonesia Para Badminton International 2023	4–10 September 2023	Surakarta
Oceania Para Badminton Championships 2023	29 September – 1 October 2023	Perth
Western Australia Para Badminton International 2023	2–6 October 2023	Perth
	20–28 October 2023	Hangzhou
Japan Para Badminton International 2023	7–12 November 2023	Tokyo
	17–25 November 2023	Santiago
Dubai Para Badminton International 2023	13–17 December 2023	Dubai
Egypt Para Badminton International 2024	22–28 January 2024	Cairo
	20–25 February 2024	Pattaya
4 Nations Para-Badminton International 2024	18–23 June 2024	Glasgow

Qualification

The qualification slots are allocated to the individual athlete or doubles pair, not to the NPC. The qualification ranking list is regulated by the BWF.

An NPC can allocated a maximum of ten male and female qualification slots, total of twenty slots. Exceptions are granted via the Bipartite Commission Invitation.
An NPC can enter a maximum of one doubles pair of two players per doubles event, the players must be qualified via the Race to Paris Paralympic Doubles Ranking List and Mixed Doubles Ranking List.
An NPC can enter one eligible player per singles event if they qualify via the Race to Paris Paralympic Singles Ranking List.

Entry into singles events from doubles

Both players from WH1 and WH2 that have qualified for the men's/women's doubles event automatically gain a qualification slot in their respective singles events.
Every male and female SL3, SL4, SU5 and SH6 who qualifies in the Mixed Doubles event automatically gain a qualification slot in their respective singles events.

Entry into doubles events from singles

Qualified male and female WH1 and WH2 singles players who are both from the same NPC can invite a maximum of two WH1-WH2 Doubles pairs per NPC.
- If more than two doubles pairs with athletes from the same NPC can be created from athletes qualifying in Bipartite Commission singles list, the Bipartite Commission will decide on how many and which doubles pairs will be entered.
Qualified male and female SL3, SL4 and SU5 singles players who are from the same NPC, the BWF may decide to invite additional SL3-SU5 Mixed Doubles pairs to enter.
- If more than two SL3-SL5 Doubles pairs with athletes from the same NPC can be created from athletes qualifying in Bipartite Commission singles list, the Bipartite Commission will decide how many and which doubles pairs will be entered.
Qualified male and female SH6 singles players from the same NPC, the BWF may decide to invite additional SH6 Mixed Doubles pairs to enter.
- If more than two SH6 Mixed Doubles pairs with athletes from the same NPC can be created from the athletes qualifying in Bipartite Commission singles list, the Bipartite Commission will decide how many and which SH6 Mixed Doubles pairs will be entered.

Entry requirements

Singles

Events Men + Women	Minimum entry
WH1	9
WH2	6
SL3	6
SL4	6
SU5	6
SH6	10

Doubles

Event	Sport class	Points	Combinations permitted	Combinations not permitted	Entry numbers Minimum entry
Men's/women's doubles	WH1 & WH2	Maximum: 3 points	WH1 + WH2 WH1 + WH1	WH2 + WH2	6 pairs
Mixed doubles	SL3-SU5	Maximum: 8 points	SL3 + SL3 SL3 + SL4 SL3 + SU5 SL4 + SL4	SL4 + SU5 SU5 + SU5	6 pairs
Mixed doubles	SH6	—	SH6 + SH6	—	6 pairs

Slot allocations

Means of qualification		Date	WH1	WH2	SL3	SL4	SU5	SH6	Total entries
Paralympic Doubles Ranking List Allocation	List published 2 April 2024	Men's doubles WH1-WH2 6 highest ranked pairs Women's doubles WH1-WH2 6 highest ranked pairs		colspan=4	12 males 12 females
Paralympic Mixed Doubles Ranking List Allocation		colspan=2	6 highest ranked pairs			6 highest ranked pairs	12 males 12 females
Paralympic Singles Ranking List Allocation		Men	Following Doubles Ranking allocations, further slots will be allocated to highest ranked athletes
3		Men	3	5	5	5	4	25
Women		Following Doubles Ranking allocations, further slots will be allocated to highest ranked athletes
Women		3	3	5	5	5	4	25
Bipartite Commission Invitation Allocation	Men	30 April 2024	3	3	7	7	7	1	11
Women	3	30 April 2024	3	7	7	7	1	11

Bipartite commission invitation slots

Two bipartite commission slots (one male, one female) are reserved for the host country. In the case that the host country obtains a slot via any other allocation method in either gender, the host country slot for the respective gender expires.
Two bipartite commission slots (one male, one female) are reserved for each continent (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania).
- If the continent has qualified only one Mixed Doubles pair across all events through the mixed doubles qualification, the continent will obtain an additional continental slot in singles in both genders.

Qualified players

Singles

Key	Description
^QS	Qualified through singles ranking
^QD	Qualified through doubles event
^IBCI	Indicates Bipartite Commission Invitee
–	Nation's quota fulled, or was not selected by their governing body

Men

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Qu Zimo		1	60,550
^QD	2	2	Choi Jung-man		1	60,305
^QD	3	3	Thomas Wandschneider		1	47,280
^QD	4	4	Hiroshi Murayama		1	43,722
^QD	5	5	Muhammad Ikhwan Ramli		1	43,299
^QD	6	6	Osamu Nagashima		2	40,249
^QD	7	7	Jeong Jae-gun		2	40,125
–	–	8	Keita Nishimura		–	38,045
^QS	8	9	Yang Tong		2	37,393
–	–	10	Lee Sam-seop		–	36,536
–	–	11	Yuri Ferrigno		–	34,664
^QD	9	12	David Toupé		1	34,120

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Daiki Kajiwara		1	69,050
^QD	2	2	Kim Jung-jun		1	50,372
^QD	3	3	Yu Soo-young		2	48,913
^QS	4	4	Chan Ho Yuen		1	48,910
^QD	5	5	Rick Cornell Hellmann		1	45,586
^QD	6	6	Takumi Matsumoto		2	38,219
^QD	7	7	Thomas Jakobs		1	36,564
^IBCI	8	8	Luca Olgiati		1	36,553
^IBCI	9	9	Amir Levi		1	35,946
^IBCI	10	10	Jaime Aránguiz		1	35,321
^QD	11	11	Mai Jianpeng		1	33,094
–	–	12	Zhao Xin		–	31,497
^QD	12	13	Noor Azwan Noorlan		1	28,904

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50+
No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QS	1	1	Daniel Bethell		1	65,305
–	–	2	Pramod Bhagat		–	64,050
^QD	2	3	Kumar Nitesh		1	52,750
^QS	3	4	Manoj Sarkar		2	43,754
^QS	4	5	Daisuke Fujihara		1	42,730
^QS	5	6	Oleksandr Chyrkov		1	39,958
^QS	6	7	Mongkhon Bunsun		1	38,278
–	–	8	Mathieu Thomas		–	37,470
–	–	9	Nehal Gupta		–	36,700
–	–	10	Pedro Pablo de Vinatea		–	30,598
–	–	11	Umesh Kumar		–	30,155
–	–	12	William Roussy		–	28,905
–	–	13	Xiong Lichuan		–	27,094
^IBCI	7	14	Wojtek Czyz		1	26,788
^QD	8	77	Yang Jianyuan		1	2,860

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Lucas Mazur		1	62,225
^QD	2	2	Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj		1	55,796
^QD	3	3	Fredy Setiawan		1	53,205
^QS	4	4	Mohd Amin Burhanuddin		1	48,528
^IBCI	5	5	Sukant Kadam		2	45,996
^IBCI	6	6	Tarun Dhillon		3	44,185
^QD	7	7	Hikmat Ramdani		2	40,447
^QS	8	8	Shin Kyung-hwan		1	33,956
^QS	9	9	Marcel Adam		1	33,731
^IBCI	10	10	Rogério Oliveira		1	33,614
–	–	11	Rickard Nilsson		–	33,095
–	–	12	Chawarat Kitichokwattana		–	33,052
–	–	13	Naveen Sivakumar		–	27,570
–	–	14	Nilesh Gaikwad		–	27,184
–	–	15	Yeh En-chuan		–	27,116
–	–	16	Guillaume Gailly		–	26,851
–	–	17	Diogo Daniel		–	25,760
^IBCI	11	18	Jeremiah Nnanna		1	25,740
^QD	12	19	Siripong Teamarrom		1	24,100

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QS	1	1	Cheah Liek Hou		1	66,550
^QS	2	2	Dheva Anrimusthi		1	59,400
^QS	3	3	Fang Jen-yu		1	49,458
^IBCI	4	4	Suryo Nugroho		2	45,515
^QS	5	5	Méril Loquette		1	44,556
^IBCI	6	6	Muhammad Fareez Anuar		2	42,774
^QD	7	7	Taiyo Imai		1	40,308
–	–	8	Pu Gui-yu		–	36,333
^QS	8	9	Bartłomiej Mróz		1	35,878

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QS	1	1	Krishna Nagar		1	61,777
^QS	2	2	Chu Man Kai		1	54,300
^QS	3	3	Vitor Tavares		1	48,710
^QS	4	4	Charles Noakes		1	47,063
^QD	5	5	Jack Shephard		1	44,652
^IBCI	6	6	Krysten Coombs		2	44,280
^QD	7	7	Miles Krajewski		1	40,691
^QD	8	8	Lin Naili		1	38,156
–	–	9	Wong Chun Yim		–	36,239
^QD	9	10	Natthapong Meechai		1	35,017
^QD	10	11	Sivarajan Solaimalai		2	32,320
–	–	12	Zeng Qingtao		–	30,812
–	–	13	Héctor Salva		–	30,231
^QD	11	14	Subhan		1	30,174

Women

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Sarina Satomi		1	60,100
^QS	2	2	Man-Kei To		1	58,205
^QD	3	3	Sujirat Pookkham		1	53,300
^QD	4	4	Yin Menglu		1	49,582
^QD	5	5	Cynthia Mathez		1	46,763
^QS	6	6	Henriett Koósz		1	40,442
^QD	7	7	Hu Guang-chiou		1	35,791
^QD	8	8	Kwon Hyun-ah		1	35,734
^QS	9	9	Nina Gorodetzky		1	34,889
–	–	10	Fan Chaoyue		–	33,956
^IBCI	10	11	Yuka Chokyu		1	32,803
^IBCI	11	12	Daniele Torres		1	32,388

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Liu Yutong		1	60,550
^QS	2	2	Pilar Jáuregui		1	54,236
^QS	3	3	Emine Seçkin		1	49,228
^QD	4	4	Ilaria Renggli		1	48,246
^QS	5	5	Li Hongyan		2	46,304
^QD	6	6	Yuma Yamazaki		1	44,217
^QD	7	7	Amnouy Wetwithan		1	39,288
^QD	8	8	Jung Gye-oul		1	39,054
^QD	9	9	Yang I-chen		1	33,053
^IBCI	10	10	Mischa Ginns		1	32,640

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No singles ranking
No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QS	1	1	Qonitah Ikhtiar Syakuroh		1	62,005
^QS	2	2	Xiao Zuxian		1	57,672
^QS	3	3	Halime Yıldız		1	55,310
^QS	4	4	Manasi Girishchandra Joshi		1	45,927
^IBCI	5	5	Mandeep Kaur		2	43,233
^QS	6	6	Oksana Kozyna		1	40,758
^IBCI	7	7	Celine Vinot		1	35,278
^IBCI	8	8	Darunee Henpraiwan		1	32,564
–	–	9	Parul Parmar		–	31,914
–	–	10	Coraline Bergeron		–	31,859
–	–	11	Adriane Avila		–	31,187
^IBCI	9	12	Mariam Eniola Bolaji		1	31,050
^QD	10	–	Noriko Ito		1	—

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No singles ranking
No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QS	1	1	Cheng Hefang		1	60,550
^QS	2	2	Helle Sofie Sagøy		1	53,219
^QD	3	3	Leani Ratri Oktila		1	52,110
^QS	4	4	Haruka Fujino		1	48,619
^QD	5	5	Khalimatus Sadiyah		2	43,480
^QD	6	6	Palak Kohli		1	41,402
^IBCI	7	7	Milena Surreau		1	37,767
^QD	8	8	Faustine Noël		2	36,130
^QD	9	–	Nipada Saensupa		1	—

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Yang Qiuxia		1	58,050
^QS	2	2	Maud Lefort		1	56,933
^QS	3	3	Cathrine Rosengren		1	54,094
^QD	4	4	Thulasimathi Murugesan		1	51,815
^QS	5	5	Manisha Ramadass		2	47,547
^QS	6	6	Mamiko Toyoda		1	38,287
^IBCI	7	7	Kaeda Kameyama		2	37,564
–	–	8	Akiko Sugino		–	37,461
^QS	8	9	Beatriz Monteiro		1	36,728
^IBCI	9	10	Rosa De Marco		1	32,270

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No.		Athlete	Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	Rina Marlina		1	56,747
^QD	2	2	Li Fengmei		1	56,277
^QD	3	3	Nithya Sre Sivan		1	50,855
^QS	4	4	Giuliana Póveda		1	50,760
^QS	5	5	Lin Shuangbao		2	49,696
^QS	6	6	Oliwia Szmigiel		1	44,188
^QD	7	7	Rachel Choong		1	44,000
^IBCI	8	8	Rubí Fernández		2	35,003
^QS	9	9	Cai Yi-lin		1	34,378
–	–	10	Yasmina Eissa		–	33,070
–	–	11	Wu Yu-yen		–	33,031
–	–	12	Daria Bujnicka		–	32,888
–	–	13	Nina Kozlova		–	32,717
^QD	10	14	Jayci Simon		1	30,300
–	–	15	Lam Ching Yung		–	25,315
^QD	11	16	Chai Saeyang		1	23,579

Doubles

Key	Description
^QD	Qualified through doubles ranking
^QS	Qualified through singles event
^NP	Qualified as new pair
^IBCI	Indicates Bipartite Commission Invitee
–	Nation's quota fulled, or was not selected by their governing body

Men

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				Player		Country	NPC rank	Points
No.		Athlete				Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	11	1	WH2	Mai Jianpeng		1	59,405
^QD	1	1	1	1	WH1	Qu Zimo		1	59,405
^QD	2	2	2	2	WH1	Choi Jung-man		1	58,205
^QD	2	2	2	2	WH2	Kim Jung-jun		1	58,205
^QD	3	3	1	3	WH2	Daiki Kajiwara		1	49,208
^QD	3	3	4	3	WH1	Hiroshi Murayama		1	49,208
^QD	4	4	5	4	WH2	Rick Cornell Hellmann		1	44,816
^QD	4	4	3	4	WH1	Thomas Wandschneider		1	44,816
^QD	5	5	13	5	WH2	Noor Azwan Noorlan		1	42,871
^QD	5	5	5	5	WH1	Muhammad Ikhwan Ramli		1	42,871
^QD	6	6	7	6	WH2	Thomas Jakobs		1	39,871
^QD	6	6	12	6	WH1	David Toupé		1	39,871
25+
^QD	7	32	7	32	WH1	Jeong Jae-gun		2	7,550
^QD	7	32	3	32	WH2	Yu Soo-young		2	7,550
New pair
^NP	8	–	6	8	WH2	Takumi Matsumoto		2	—
^NP	8	–	6	—	WH1	Osamu Nagashima		2	—

Women

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				Player		Country	NPC rank	Points
No.		Athlete				Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	1	1	WH2	Liu Yutong		1	54,105
^QD	1	1	4	1	WH1	Yin Menglu		1	54,105
^QD	2	2	1	2	WH1	Sarina Satomi		1	49,780
^QD	2	2	6	2	WH2	Yuma Yamazaki		1	49,780
^QD	3	3	5	3	WH1	Cynthia Mathez		1	49,619
^QD	3	3	4	3	WH2	Ilaria Renggli		1	49,619
^QD	4	4	3	4	WH1	Sujirat Pookkham		1	48,894
^QD	4	4	7	4	WH2	Amnouy Wetwithan		1	48,894
^QD	5	5	8	5	WH2	Jung Gye-oul		1	38,260
^QD	5	5	8	5	WH1	Kwon Hyun-ah		1	38,260
^QD	6	6	7	6	WH1	Hu Guang-chiou		1	35,600
^QD	6	6	9	6	WH2	Yang I-chen		1	35,600

Mixed

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				Player		Country	NPC rank	Points
No.		Athlete				Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	7	1	SL4	Hikmat Ramdani		1	69,050
^QD	1	1	3	1	SL4	Leani Ratri Oktila		1	69,050
^QD	2	2	3	2	SL4	Fredy Setiawan		2	53,860
^QD	2	2	5	2	SL4	Khalimatus Sadiyah		2	53,860
–	–	3	2	3	SL3	Pramod Bhagat		–	47,727
–	–	3	5	3	SU5	Manisha Ramadass		–	47,727
^QD	3	4	1	4	SL4	Lucas Mazur		1	47,063
^QD	3	4	8	4	SL4	Faustine Noël		1	47,063
^QD	4	5	3	5	SL3	Kumar Nitesh		1	40,549
^QD	4	5	4	5	SU5	Thulasimathi Murugesan		1	40,549
–	–	6	11	6	SU5	Chirag Baretha		–	39,000
–	–	6	5	6	SL3	Mandeep Kaur		–	39,000
–	–	7	10	7	SU5	Ruthick Ragupathi		–	37,970
–	–	7	4	7	SL3	Manasi Girishchandra Joshi		–	37,970
^QD	5	8	7	8	SU5	Taiyo Imai		1	35,053
^QD	5	8	–	8	SL3	Noriko Ito		1	35,053
–	–	9	5	9	SU5	Méril Loquette		–	34,439
–	–	9	10	9	SL3	Coraline Bergeron		–	34,439
–	–	10	8	10	SL3	Mathieu Thomas		–	32,376
–	–	10	2	10	SU5	Maud Lefort		–	32,376
^QD	6	11	19	11	SL4	Siripong Teamarrom		1	32,204
^QD	6	11	–	11	SL4	Nipada Saensupa		1	32,204
–	–	12	5	12	SL3	Daisuke Fujihara		–	31,497
–	–	12	8	12	SU5	Akiko Sugino		–	31,497
^QD	7	13	77	13	SL3	Yang Jianyuan		1	31,008
^QD	7	13	1	13	SU5	Yang Qiuxia		1	31,008
New pair
^NP	8	–	2	46	SL4	Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj		2	—
^NP	8	–	6	20	SL4	Palak Kohli		2	—

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				Player		Country	NPC rank	Points
No.		Athlete				Country	NPC rank	Points
^QD	1	1	14	1	SH6	Subhan		1	60,875
^QD	1	1	1	1	SH6	Rina Marlina		1	60,875
^QD	2	2	8	2	SH6	Lin Naili		1	52,796
^QD	2	2	2	2	SH6	Li Fengmei		1	52,796
–	–	3	12	3	SH6	Zeng Qingtao		–	47,510
–	–	3	5	3	SH6	Lin Shuangbao		–	47,510
^QD	3	4	11	4	SH6	Sivarajan Solaimalai		1	44,830
^QD	3	4	3	4	SH6	Nithya Sre Sivan		1	44,830
^QD	4	5	5	5	SH6	Jack Shephard		1	44,525
^QD	4	5	7	5	SH6	Rachel Choong		1	44,525
^QD	5	6	10	6	SH6	Natthapong Meechai		1	40,972
^QD	5	6	16	6	SH6	Chai Saeyang		1	40,972
^QD	6	7	7	7	SH6	Miles Krajewski		1	38,016
^QD	6	7	14	7	SH6	Jayci Simon		1	38,016

Notes and References

Web site: 3 May 2023. 2024 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide. International Paralympic Committee.
Web site: 3 May 2023. Para Badminton - Paris 2024. Paris 2024.
Web site: 26 November 2022. Para Badminton Events for 2023 confirmed, Paris 2024 journey begins. Olympics BWF.
Web site: 28 March 2023. World class Para Badminton events announced on the road to Paris 2024. Badminton England.

Badminton at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification explained

Timeline

Qualification

Entry into singles events from doubles

Entry into doubles events from singles

Entry requirements

Singles

Doubles

Slot allocations

Bipartite commission invitation slots

Qualified players

Singles

Men

Women

Doubles

Men

Women

Mixed

See also

Notes and References