2011 BWF World Championships

2011 BWF World Championships

Tournament details
Dates	8 August – 14 August
Edition	19th
Level	International
Competitors	347 from 48 nations
Venue	Wembley Arena
Location	London, England
← 2010 Paris 2013 Guangzhou →

The 2011 BWF World Championships was the 19th tournament of the World Badminton Championships, a global tournament in the sport of badminton. It was held at Wembley Arena in London, England, from August 8 to August 14, 2011. ^[1]

China clean swept all the titles for a record third time and became the first nation to successfully defend all the titles won from the previous edition. Scotland won their first medal from mixed pair and India won their medal in women's doubles and their seconds worlds medal after 28 years. ^[2]

Draw

The draw was held on 25 July at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ^[3]

Schedule

All five events started on the first day and concluded with the final on the last day. ^[4]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Date	Time	Round
8 August 2011	10:00	Round of 64
9 August 2011	11:00	Round of 64
		Round of 32
10 August 2011	11:00	Round of 32
11 August 2011	11:00	Round of 16
12 August 2011	11:00	Quarterfinals
	17:00	Quarterfinals
13 August 2011	11:00	Semifinals
	17:30	Semifinals
14 August 2011	12:00	Finals

Medalists

Medal table

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	1	3	9
2	South Korea	0	1	1	2
3	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
5	England*	0	0.5	0	0.5
	Scotland	0	0.5	0	0.5
7	Indonesia	0	0	2	2
8	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		5	5	10	20

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Lin Dan	Lee Chong Wei	Chen Jin
			Peter Gade
Women's singles	Wang Yihan	Cheng Shao-chieh	Juliane Schenk
			Wang Xin
Men's Doubles	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Ko Sung-hyun Yoo Yeon-seong	Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae
			Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano
Women's Doubles	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna
			Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa
Mixed Doubles	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei	Chris Adcock Imogen Bankier	Xu Chen Ma Jin
			Tontowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir

Participating countries

347 players from 48 countries participated at this year's edition. ^[5] The number in parentheses indicate the player contributed by each country.

•   Australia (4)
•   Austria (4)
•   Belarus (2)
•   Belgium (8)
•   Brazil (2)
•   Bulgaria (4)
•   Canada (10)
•   China (24)
•   Chinese Taipei (14)
•   Croatia (3)
•   Czech Republic (2)
•   Denmark (16)
•   England (18)
•   Finland (2)
•   France (7)
•   Germany (12)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Hong Kong (8)
•   India (12)
•   Indonesia (24)
•   Ireland (4)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (1)
•   Japan (24)
•   Lithuania (1)
•   Malaysia (15)
•   Mexico (3)
•   Morocco (1)
•   Netherlands (14)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Peru (3)
•   Poland (8)
•   Russia (11)
•   Scotland (5)
•   Singapore (9)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   South Africa (5)
•   South Korea (13)
•   Spain (4)
•   Sri Lanka (2)
•   Sweden (5)
•   Switzerland (3)
•   Thailand (10)
•   Turkey (4)
•   Ukraine (8)
•   United States (9)
•   Vietnam (1)

References

1. "Yonex named title sponsor for the 2011 BWF World Championships at Wembley". Badminton England. 2010-08-23. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
2. Eaton, Richard (2011-08-14). "Lin wins thriller in another China badminton cleansweep". AFP. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
3. "World Badminton 2011: Britain's Rajiv Ouseph handed tough draw for Olympics test event". telegraph.co.uk. 2011-07-25. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
4. "Dates and Schedules". visitlondon.com. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
5. "Participating Countries". visitlondon.com. Retrieved 2011-08-14.

External links

• Official website
• 2011 BWF World Championships at bwfbadminton.org
• BWF World Championships 2011 at tournamentsoftware.com