Badminton at the Asian Games

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. 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).

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best nation
III	1958	Tokyo	Japan
IV	1962	Jakarta	Indonesia	Indonesia (INA)
V	1966	Bangkok	Thailand	Indonesia (INA)
VI	1970	Bangkok	Thailand	Japan (JPN)
VII	1974	Tehran	Iran	China (CHN)
VIII	1978	Bangkok	Thailand	Indonesia (INA)
IX	1982	New Delhi	India	China (CHN)
X	1986	Seoul	South Korea	China (CHN)
XI	1990	Beijing	China	China (CHN)
XII	1994	Hiroshima	Japan	South Korea (KOR)
XIII	1998	Bangkok	Thailand	China (CHN)
XIV	2002	Busan	South Korea	South Korea (KOR)
XV	2006	Doha	Qatar	China (CHN)
XVI	2010	Guangzhou	China	China (CHN)
XVII	2014	Incheon	South Korea	China (CHN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	40	28	33	101
2	Indonesia (INA)	26	25	40	91
3	South Korea (KOR)	16	17	33	66
4	Malaysia (MAS)	7	8	20	35
5	Japan (JPN)	6	7	21	34
6	Thailand (THA)	1	11	14	26
7	India (IND)	1	1	8	10
8	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	1	5	7
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	4	4
10	Myanmar (MYA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	1	1
Total		97	97	181	375

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.

Participating nations

The following nations have taken part in the badminton competition.

Nation	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Years
Bahrain (BRN)													X		1
China (CHN)				X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Hong Kong (HKG)											X	X	X	X	4
India (IND)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	14
Iran (IRI)												X		X	2
Indonesia (INA)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	14
Iraq (IRQ)													X		1
Japan (JPN)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	14
South Korea (KOR)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	14
Macau (MAC)												X	X	X	3
Malaysia (MAS)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	14
Maldives (MDV)													X	X	2
Mongolia (MGL)												X	X	X	3
Nepal (NEP)													X	X	2
Pakistan (PAK)														X	1
Philippines (PHI)												X			1
Qatar (QAT)														X	1
Singapore (SIN)										X	X	X	X	X	4
Sri Lanka (SRI)												X	X		2
Syria (SYR)												X			1
Thailand (THA)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	13
Chinese Taipei (TPE)										X	X	X	X	X	4
Timor-Leste (TLS)												X			1
Vietnam (VIE)												X	X	X	3

Winners

Individual competition

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1962	Tan Joe Hock	Minarni Minarni	Tan Yee Khan Ng Boon Bee	Minarni Minarni Retno Kustijah	N/A
1966	Ang Tjin Siang	Noriko Takagi			Teh Kew San Rosalind Singha Ang
1970	Punch Gunalan	Hiroe Yuki	Punch Gunalan Ng Boon Bee	Machiko Aizawa Etsuko Takenaka	Ng Boon Bee Sylvia Ng
1974	Hou Jiachang	Chen Yuniang	Tjun Tjun Johan Wahjudi	Liang Chiusia Cheng Huiming	Christian Hadinata Regina Masli
1978	Liem Swie King	Liang Chiusia	Christian Hadinata Ade Chandra	Verawaty Fajrin Imelda Wiguna	Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing
1982	Han Jian	Zhang Ailing	Christian Hadinata Icuk Sugiarto	Hwang Sun-ai Kang Heung-sook	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		Tang Jiuhong	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua
1994	Hariyanto Arbi	Bang Soo-hyun	Ricky Subagja Rexy Mainaky	Shim Eun-jung Jang Hye-ock	Yoo Yong-sung Chung So-young
1998	Dong Jiong	Kanako Yonekura		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
2006		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		Wang Yihan	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	Greysia Polii Nitya Krishinda Maheswari	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2018

Successful countries by gold medal (individual)

Men's singles

Rank	Country	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Total
1	China				X		X	X	X		X			X	X	7
2	Indonesia	X	X			X				X		X	X			6
3	Malaysia			X												1

Women's singles

Rank	Country	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Total
1	China				X	X	X	X	X			X		X	X	8
2	Japan		X	X							X					3
3	Indonesia	X														1
3	South Korea									X						1
3	Hong Kong												X			1

Men's doubles

Rank	Country	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Total
1	Indonesia				X	X	X			X	X			X	X	7
2	Malaysia	X	X	X									X			4
3	South Korea							X				X				2
3	China								X							1

Women's doubles

Rank	Country	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Total
1	China				X			X	X		X		X	X		6
2	Indonesia	X	X			X									X	4
3	South Korea						X			X		X				3
4	Japan			X												1

Mixed doubles

Rank	Country	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	Total
1	South Korea	N/A						X	X	X	X	X		X		6
2	China	N/A				X							X		X	3
3	Malaysia	N/A	X	X												2
3	Indonesia	N/A			X		X									2

Team competition

Year	Men	Women
1962	Indonesia	Indonesia
1966	Thailand	Japan
1970	Indonesia	Japan
1974	China	China
1978	Indonesia	China
1982	China	China
1986	Korea	China
1990	China	China
1994	Indonesia	Korea
1998	Indonesia	China
2002	Korea	China
2006	China	China
2010	China	China
2014	Korea	China
2018

Successful countries in team competition

	Nation	Men	Women	Total
1	China	5	10	15
2	Indonesia	5	1	6
3	Korea	3	1	4
4	Japan	0	2	2
5	Thailand	1	0	1

External links

• BAC: Asian Games
• Doha 2006: Medalists from previous Asian Games
• Sports123: Asian Games badminton