Badminton at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Pavilion 3, Sydney Olympic Park |
Dates | 17–23 September 2000 |
No. of events | 5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed) |
Competitors | 161 from 28 nations |
Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics | |||
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Singles | men | women | |
Doubles | men | women | mixed |
Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at the Pavilion 3, Sydney Olympic Park from 17 – 23 September. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed doubles event.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Ji Xinpeng China | Hendrawan Indonesia | Xia Xuanze China |
Men's doubles | Tony Gunawan and Candra Wijaya (INA) | Lee Dong-soo and Yoo Yong-sung (KOR) | Ha Tae-kwon and Kim Dong-moon (KOR) |
Women's singles | Gong Zhichao China | Camilla Martin Denmark | Ye Zhaoying China |
Women's doubles | Ge Fei and Gu Jun (CHN) | Huang Nanyan and Yang Wei (CHN) | Gao Ling and Qin Yiyuan (CHN) |
Mixed doubles | Zhang Jun and Gao Ling (CHN) | Tri Kusharyanto and Minarti Timur (INA) | Simon Archer and Joanne Goode (GBR) |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
2 | Indonesia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
3 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (5 entries) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
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