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| Tournament details | |||
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| Edition | 12th | ||
| Competitors | 315 | ||
| Venue | St. Jakobshalle | ||
| Location | Basel, Switzerland | ||
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The 2019 BWF Para-Badminton World Championships was held from 20 to 25 August 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. [1]
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| Edition | 12th | ||
| Competitors | 315 | ||
| Venue | St. Jakobshalle | ||
| Location | Basel, Switzerland | ||
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The 2019 BWF Para-Badminton World Championships was held from 20 to 25 August 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. [1]
After Basel was selected to be the host of 2019 BWF World Championships in March 2019, the organizing team proposed to hold the able-bodied badminton world championships together the para-badminton world championships. [2] The proposal was approved by Badminton World Federation thus marking the first time Para-Badminton World Championships is held together with World Badminton Championships in the same venue.
313 players from 49 countries took part.
Australia (5)
Austria (1)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (13)
Canada (10)
China (20)
Chinese Taipei (4)
Colombia (1)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
Denmark (1)
Ecuador (1)
Egypt (8)
England (12)
Faroe Islands (1)
Finland (7)
France (19)
Germany (10)
Greece (1)
Hong Kong (3)
India (26)
Indonesia (9)
Ireland (3)
Israel (2)
Italy (4)
Japan (25)
Kenya (8)
Malaysia (6)
Netherlands (4)
New Zealand (1)
Nigeria (7)
Norway (1)
Peru (3)
Poland (7)
Portugal (2)
Russia (16)
Scotland (4)
Singapore (1)
South Africa (1)
South Korea (10)
Spain (4)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (5) Host country
Thailand (16)
Turkey (7)
Uganda (4)
Ukraine (5)
United States (9)
Vietnam (4)
Wales (1)| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singles WH1 | Qu Zimo | Lee Dong-seop | Yang Tong |
| Choi Jung-man | |||
| Singles WH2 | Kim Jung-jun | Chan Ho Yuen | Atsuya Watanabe |
| Kim Kyung-hoon | |||
| Singles SL3 | Pramod Bhagat | Daniel Bethell | Ukun Rukaendi |
| Manoj Sarkar | |||
| Singles SL4 | Lucas Mazur | Tarun Dhillon | Fredy Setiawan |
| Sukant Kadam | |||
| Singles SU5 | Dheva Anrimusthi | Suryo Nugroho | Cheah Liek Hou |
| Bartłomiej Mróz | |||
| Singles SS6 | Jack Shephard | Wong Chun Yim | Vitor Tavares |
| Krishna Nagar | |||
| Doubles WH1–WH2 | Mai Jianpeng Qu Zimo | Kim Jung-jun Lee Dong-seop | Osamu Nagashima Atsuya Watanaber |
| Choi Jung-man Kim Kyung-hoon | |||
| Doubles SL3–SL4 | Pramod Bhagat Manoj Sarkar | Kumar Nitesh Tarun Dhillon | Ukun Rukaendi Hary Susanto |
| Chawarat Kitichokwattana Umesh Vikram Kumar | |||
| Doubles SU5 | Dheva Anrimusthi Hafizh Briliansyah Prawiranegara | Shi Shengzhuo He Zhirui | Raj Kumar Rakesh Pandey |
| Cheah Liek Hou Mohamad Faris Ahmad Azri | |||
| Doubles SS6 | Chu Man Kai Wong Chun Yim | Krishna Nagar Raja Magotra | Vitor Tavares Miles Krajewski |
| Andrew Martin Fabien Morat |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singles WH1 | Sarina Satomi | Sujirat Pookkham | Karin Suter-Erath |
| Yin Menglu | |||
| Singles WH2 | Liu Yutong | Li Hongyan | Xu Tingting |
| Rie Ogura | |||
| Singles SL3 | Manasi Joshi | Parul Parmar | Wannaphatdee Kamtam |
| Halime Yıldız | |||
| Singles SL4 | Leani Ratri Oktila | Cheng Hefang | Helle Sofie Sagøy |
| Khalimatus Sadiyah | |||
| Singles SU5 | Yang Qiuxia | Ayako Suzuki | Cathrine Rosengren |
| Kaede Kamayama | |||
| Singles SS6 | Giuliana Póveda | Rachel Choong | Rebecca Bedford |
| Katherine Valli | |||
| Doubles WH1–WH2 | Liu Yutong Yin Menglu | Sujirat Pookkham Amnouy Wetwithan | Ikumi Fuke Rie Ogura |
| Sarina Satomi Yuma Yamazaki | |||
| Doubles SL3–SU5 | Cheng Hefang Ma Huihui | Leani Ratri Oktila Khalimatus Sadiyah | Noriko Ito Ayako Suzuki |
| Kaede Kamayama Asami Yamada | |||
| Doubles SS6 | Rebecca Bedford Rachel Choong | Giuliana Póveda Katherine Valli | Daria Bujnicka Oliwia Szmigiel |
| Irina Borisova Uliana Podpalnaya |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doubles WH1–WH2 | Yang Tong Li Hongyan | Jakarin Homhual Amnouy Wetwithan | Mi Young-chin Valeska Knoblauch |
| Kim Kyung-hoon Kang Jung-kum | |||
| Doubles SL3–SU5 | Hary Susanto Leani Ratri Oktila | Jan-Niklas Pott Katrin Seibert | Toshiaki Suenaga Akiko Sugino |
| Siripong Teammarom Nipada Saensupa | |||
| Doubles SS6 | Andrew Martin Rachel Choong | Robert Laing Rebecca Bedford | Vitor Tavares Rubí Fernández |
| Didin Taresoh Daria Bujnicka |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | India | 3 | 4 | 4.5 | 11.5 |
| 4 | England | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 7 |
| 5 | South Korea | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 9 | 11 |
| 8 | Peru | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2 |
| 9 | France | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 10 | Thailand | 0 | 3 | 2.5 | 5.5 |
| 11 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 |  United States | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2 |
| 13 | Scotland | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 14 |  Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | |
| 16 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (21 entries) | 22 | 22 | 44 | 88 | |
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