2025 BWF World Championships

2025 BWF World Championships

Tournament details
Dates	25–31 August
Edition	29th
Level	International
Competitors	383 (53 nations)
Venue	Adidas Arena
Location	Paris, France
Official website	https://www.badmintonparis2025.com/
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The 2025 BWF World Championships, officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2025 for sponsorship reasons, was a badminton tournament which was held in Paris, France. Paris hosted the World Championships for the first time since 2010.

Host city selection

Paris was awarded the event in November 2018 during the announcement of 18 major badminton event hosts from 2019 to 2025. ^[1]

Competition schedule

The tournament lasts over 7 days.

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Preliminary rounds

QF

Quarter-finals

SF

Semi-finals

F

Finals

Date	25 Aug	26 Aug		27 Aug	28 Aug	29 Aug	30 Aug	31 Aug
Event
Men's singles	1R			2R	3R	QF	SF	F
Women's singles	1R		2R		3R	QF	SF	F
Men's doubles	1R	2R			3R	QF	SF	F
Women's doubles	1R	2R			3R	QF	SF	F
Mixed doubles		1R	2R		3R	QF	SF	F

Point distribution

Below is the table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the World Championships event. ^[2]

Winner	Runner-up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/200
20000	15,500	10,500	8,200	6,000	3,750	2000

Medal summary

Medal table

Canada won its first World Championship medal. ^{[3] [4]}

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	3	1	6
2	Malaysia	1	1	0	2
3	Japan	1	0	2	3
4	South Korea	1	0	1	2
5	Thailand	0	1	0	1
6	Denmark	0	0	2	2
7	Canada	0	0	1	1
	France*	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		5	5	10	20

Medalists

Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Shi Yuqi   China	Kunlavut Vitidsarn   Thailand	Victor Lai   Canada
			Anders Antonsen   Denmark
Women's singles details	Akane Yamaguchi   Japan	Chen Yufei   China	An Se-young   South Korea
			Putri Kusuma Wardani   Indonesia
Men's doubles details	South Korea Kim Won-ho Seo Seung-jae	China Chen Boyang Liu Yi	Denmark Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
			India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty
Women's doubles details	China Liu Shengshu Tan Ning	Malaysia Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan	Japan Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi
			Japan Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida
Mixed doubles details	Malaysia Chen Tang Jie Toh Ee Wei	China Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin	France Thom Gicquel Delphine Delrue
			China Guo Xinwa Chen Fanghui

Qualifiers

See also: 2025 BWF World Championships qualification

Number of participants

Nation		MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total	Number of players
Africa	Algeria			1		1	2	3
	Mauritius	1					1	1
	Uganda		1		1		2	2
Asia	China	4	4	2	3	4	17	26
	Chinese Taipei	4	4	3	4	4	19	26
	Hong Kong	2	2	2	2	1	9	16
	India	2	1	2	2	2	9	13
	Indonesia	3	2	3	2	2	12	19
	Israel	1				1	2	2
	Japan	4	3	2	4	2	15	23
	Macau	1				1	2	3
	Malaysia	2	2	4	2	3	12	21
	Myanmar		1				1	1
	Philippines			1	1		2	4
	Singapore	2	2	1		1	6	8
	South Korea	2	3	2	2	1	10	15
	Sri Lanka	2	1		2		5	7
	Thailand	2	4	2	1	3	12	15
	United Arab Emirates				1		1	2
	Vietnam	2	2	1			5	6
Europe	Austria	1			1		2	3
	Azerbaijan	2	1	1		1	5	6
	Belgium	1	1				2	2
	Bulgaria		2	1	2		5	7
	Croatia	1					1	1
	Czech Republic	1	2	1			4	5
	Denmark	2	3	2		2	9	13
	England	2		2	2	2	8	12
	Estonia		1				1	1
	Finland	2					2	2
	France (H)	3	1	2	2	2	10	14
	Germany	2	2	1	1	1	7	9
	Hungary		2				2	2
	Ireland	1	1		1	1	4	5
	Italy	1	1				2	2
	Netherlands				0.5		0.5	1
	Poland				1		1	2
	Scotland		1	2	1	2	6	8
	Serbia					1	1	2
	Slovenia					1	1	2
	Spain	1	1	2	2	1	7	10
	Sweden	1					1	1
	Switzerland	1	1	1	2		5	8
	Turkey		2		1		3	4
	Ukraine		2		1.5	1	4.5	4
Oceania
	Australia	1	2	1	1		5	6
	New Zealand	1				1	2	2
Pan Am
	Brazil	2	1	2	1	1	7	9
	Canada	2	2	2		2	8	10
	El Salvador	1					1	1
	Guatemala			1		1	2	3
	Peru	1	1				2	2
	United States		2	1	1	2	6	9
Total (53 NOCs)		65	64	48	48	48	272	383

Players participating in two events

Player	Gender	Singles	Doubles	Mixed
Koceila Mammeri	Men
Fadilah Mohamed Rafi	Women
Yang Po-hsuan	Men
Sung Shuo-yun	Women
Hsu Yin-hui	Women
Hung En-tzu	Women
Misha Zilberman	Men
Dechapol Puavaranukroh	Men
Pakkapon Teeraratsakul	Men
Phataimas Muenwong	Women
Dicky Dwi Pangestu	Men
Stefani Stoeva	Women
Rory Easton	Men
Lizzie Tolman	Women
Christo Popov	Men
Toma Junior Popov	Men
Malik Bourakkadi	Men
Moya Ryan	Women
Alexander Dunn	Men
Adam Pringle	Men
Julie MacPherson	Women
Rubén García	Men
Lucía Rodríguez	Women
Polina Buhrova	Women
Yevheniia Kantemyr	Women
Jack Yu	Men
Edward Lau	Men
Fabricío Farias	Men
Jacqueline Lima	Women
Jonathan Lai	Men
Ty Alexander Lindeman	Men
Presley Smith	Men
Christopher Martinez	Men

Performance by nations

As of the results of 31 August 2025.

Nation	Quota	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Finals	Champion
China	17	8	16	14	10	6	5	2
Malaysia	12	4	11	8	5	2	2	1
Japan	15	10	11	9	5	3	1	1
South Korea	10	7	10	6	4	2	1	1
Thailand	12	9	8	5	2	1	1
Denmark	9	7	8	5	2	2
Indonesia	12	6	11	9	3	1
India	9	7	5	3	3	1
France	10	9	8	4	1	1
Canada	8	8	2	2	1	1
Chinese Taipei	19	13	15	8	2
Singapore	8	8	4	1	1
Bulgaria	5	5	1	1	1
Hong Kong	9	7	6	3
England	8	7	5	1
Vietnam	5	5	3	1
Scotland	6	6	6
Germany	7	7	5
United States	6	6	4
Brazil	7	7	2
Spain	7	7	2
Sri Lanka	5	5	2
Ireland	4	4	2
Turkey	3	3	2
Philippines	2	2	2
Ukraine	4.5	4.5	1.5
Australia	5	5	1
Azerbaijan	5	5	1
Switzerland	5	5	1
Czech Republic	4	4	1
Belgium	2	2	1
Croatia	1	1	1
Serbia	1	1	1
Netherlands	0.5	0.5	0.5
Algeria	2	2
Finland	2	2
Guatemala	2	2
Hungary	2	2
Israel	2	2
Italy	2	2
Macau	2	2
New Zealand	2	2
Peru	2	2
Uganda	2	2
Estonia	1	1
El Salvador	1	1
Mauritius	1	1
Myanmar	1	1
Nepal	1	1
Poland	1	1
Slovenia	1	1
Sweden	1	1
United Arab Emirates	1	1
Withdrew	2
Total	272	224	160	80	40	20	10	5

References

1. "BWF Major Event Hosts 2019-2025 Awarded". Badminton World Federation. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
2. "World Ranking System" (PDF). Badminton World Federation . Retrieved 4 April 2018.
3. Goh, Z. K. (29 August 2025). "BWF World Championships 2025: Loh Kean Yew exits in quarter-finals shock against Victor Lai". Olympics . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
4. Sukumar, Dev (29 August 2025). "Victor Lai Makes History for Canada". Badminton World Federation.