Badminton at the Asian Games explained

Badminton has been one of the regular Asian Games sports since 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

History

Badminton made its debut in the Asian Games as a demonstration sport at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, and became a regular competitive sport in 1962.^[1] In the 1962 Games, six events were held, with singles, doubles and team event for both men and women. The mixed doubles event was added in 1966 Asian Games. There was a playoff between the two semifinal losers to determine the sole winner of the bronze medal in 1962; but since 1966, two bronze medals per event are awarded in each event (except in 1974).

Competition

Asian Games badminton consists of a single-elimination tournament. Each match is played to the best of three games, each game is of 21 points. Rally scoring is used, meaning a player does not need to be serving to score. A player must win by two points or be the first player to 30 points.^[2]

Editions

width=50	Games	width=50	Year	width=180	Host city	width=160	Best nation
		Jakarta, Indonesia
		Bangkok, Thailand
		Bangkok, Thailand
		Tehran, Iran
		Bangkok, Thailand
		New Delhi, India
		Seoul, South Korea
		Beijing, China
		Hiroshima, Japan
		Bangkok, Thailand
		Busan, South Korea
		Doha, Qatar
		Guangzhou, China
		Incheon, South Korea
		Jakarta–Palembang, Indonesia
		Hangzhou, China
		Aichi–Nagoya, Japan
		Doha, Qatar
		Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Events

Event	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=40	Years

Men's singles																	16
Men's doubles																	16
Men's team																	16
Women's singles																	16
Women's doubles																	16
Women's team																	16
Mixed doubles																	15

Total	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7

Participating nations

width=180	Nation	width=20	62	width=20	66	width=20	70	width=20	74	width=20	78	width=20	82	width=20	86	width=20	90	width=20	94	width=20	98	width=20	02	width=20	06	width=20	10	width=20	14	width=20	18	width=40	Years

														2	2	2
												2				1
	X								3	2						3
				12	12	12	16	16	16	16	19	16	20	20	20	12
		X							8	16	4	9	20	20	20	8
											2	2				2
		4	8	6	8	6	6	8	8	10	10	13	12	18	20	14
				X	X	X	12			1	2	10	17	15	20	10
	10	X	X	X	X	12	14	16	16	16	12	16	20	18	20	15
				X						4		2		2	2	5
													1			1
	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	12	16	11	11	11	16	20	20	15
											2	4	6	10	4	5
	10	X	X	X	X	X	7	7	9	16	17	16	18	20	14	15
									4				3	8	8	4
											4	2	4	4	4	5
		X														1
		X	X	X	X		8					1	5	8	8	9
				X				6								2
				X	X		2	6		2				4	8	7
	X	X	X	X	X					4	1	2				8
														1		1
															2	1
	X								3		2	12	2	6		6
		X	X	X	X	X	16	16	16	16	20	16	20	20	20	14
		X					1	2		2	1	4	4		6	8
											1	4				2
	X	X	X	X	X	X	5	12	13	16	12	16	20	20	20	15
												4	2	5	6	4

Number of nations	7	11	8	13	11		11	10	11	14	16	20	17	19	19
Number of athletes							98	101	112	132	120	162	190	221	224

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1962	Tan Joe Hok	Minarni	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Minarni Retno Kustijah	not conducted
1966	Ang Tjin Siang	Noriko Takagi	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Minarni Retno Kustijah	Teh Kew San Rosalind Singha Ang
1970	Punch Gunalan	Hiroe Yuki	Ng Boon Bee Punch Gunalan	Etsuko Takenaka Machiko Aizawa	Ng Boon Bee Sylvia Ng
1974	Hou Jiachang	Chen Yuniang	Tjun Tjun Johan Wahjudi	Liang Qiuxia Zheng Huiming	Christian Hadinata Regina Masli
1978	Liem Swie King	Liang Qiuxia	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguna	Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing
1982	Han Jian	Zhang Ailing	Icuk Sugiarto Christian Hadinata	Hwang Sun-ai Kang Haeng-suk	Christian Hadinata Ivana Lie
1986	Zhao Jianhua	Han Aiping	Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo	Lin Ying Guan Weizhen	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1990	Zhao Jianhua	Tang Jiuhong	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1994	Hariyanto Arbi	Bang Soo-hyun	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Shim Eun-jung Jang Hye-ock	Yoo Yong-sung Chung So-young
1998	Dong Jiong	Kanako Yonekura	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2002	Taufik Hidayat	Zhou Mi	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2006	Taufik Hidayat	Wang Chen	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Zheng Bo Gao Ling
2010	Lin Dan	Wang Shixian	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Shin Baek-cheol Lee Hyo-jung
2014	Lin Dan	Wang Yihan	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Greysia Polii	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2018	Jonatan Christie	Tai Tzu-ying	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2022	Li Shifeng	An Se-young	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong

Performance by nations

Pos	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD*	MT	WT	Total
1	8	8	1	8	5	7	10	47
2	7	1	8	4	2	5	1	28
3	0	2	2	3	6	3	2	18
4	1	0	4	0	2	0	0	7
5	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	7
6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Total	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	111

Notes:The table above shows number of gold medals won by countries. At the 1962 Asian Games, mixed doubles discipline wasn't conducted, so the number of gold medals aren't equal with others disciplines.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Badminton - History . https://web.archive.org/web/20070104043504/http://www.doha-2006.com/gis/menuroot/sports/Badminton_History.aspx?id=BD . 4 January 2007 . . doha-2006.com . 12 July 2011 .
Web site: Sports - Badminton . Guangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (GAGOC) . gz2010.cn . 30 March 2009 . 12 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110903153912/http://www.gz2010.cn/09/0318/17/54N3RUKJ0078007E.html . 3 September 2011 .