Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Badminton at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	GSU Sports Arena
Dates	July 24 – August 1, 1996
No. of events	5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	192 from 37 nations
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Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the four events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles) as well as a new event: mixed doubles. An additional change to the tournament was the playoff game for the bronze medal rather than the awarding of two bronzes. The tournament was single-elimination. Matches consisted of three sets, with sets being to 15 except. The tournament was held at the Georgia State University gymnasium. ^[1]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen   Denmark	Dong Jiong   China	Rashid Sidek   Malaysia
Men's doubles details	Ricky Subagja and Rexy Mainaky  (INA)	Cheah Soon Kit and Yap Kim Hock  (MAS)	Denny Kantono and Antonius Ariantho  (INA)
Women's singles details	Bang Soo-hyun   South Korea	Mia Audina   Indonesia	Susi Susanti   Indonesia
Women's doubles details	Ge Fei and Gu Jun  (CHN)	Gil Young-ah and Jang Hye-ock  (KOR)	Qin Yiyuan and Tang Yongshu  (CHN)
Mixed doubles details	Kim Dong-moon and Gil Young-ah  (KOR)	Park Joo-bong and Ra Kyung-min  (KOR)	Liu Jianjun and Sun Man  (CHN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	2	0	4
2	China	1	1	2	4
	Indonesia	1	1	2	4
4	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
Totals (5 entries)		5	5	5	15

Participating nations

A total of 37 nations participated in this event.

•   Australia  (8)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Belarus  (2)
•   Bulgaria  (3)
•   Canada  (7)
•   China  (20)
•   Denmark  (16)
•   Finland  (2)
•   France  (2)
•   Great Britain  (11)
•   Germany  (6)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (3)
•   Hungary  (1)
•   Iceland  (1)
•   India  (2)
•   Indonesia  (20)
•   Japan  (7)
•   South Korea  (17)
•   Malaysia  (7)
•   Mauritius  (4)
•   Netherlands  (5)
•   New Zealand  (2)
•   Nigeria  (2)
•   Peru  (1)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Poland  (1)
•   Russia  (5)
•   Singapore  (1)
•   Suriname  (1)
•   Switzerland  (2)
•   Sweden  (10)
•   Chinese Taipei  (6)
•   Thailand  (7)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (1)
•   Ukraine  (3)
•   United States  (3)

References

1. "Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved May 27, 2020.

Sources

• "Badminton at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
• "Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games". tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
• "ATLANTA 1996 OLYMPIC GAMES". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on June 1, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2019.