| Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics | |||
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| Singles | men | women | |
| Doubles | men | women | mixed |
A total of 173 players was planned to compete in badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Of them, 16 pairs competed in each doubles events, 41 players competed in the men's singles event and 47 players competed in the women's singles event.
The main qualifying criterion was the BWF Ranking list as of May 1, 2008. It provided a total of 16 pairs in each doubles event and 38 athletes in each singles event, in the following manner:
Each continent was guaranteed one entry in each event. If this was not satisfied by the entry selection method described above, the highest ranking player/pair had qualified. If there wa no player/pair in the rankings, the winner of the most recently contested Continental Championship was qualified.
The host nation (People's Republic of China) entered 2 players in total, but more than 2 players were permitted if they all qualified under qualifying regulations.
There were also 2 invitational places in each singles event which were allocated by the IOC Tripartite Commission. [1]
| NOC | Men's Singles | Men's Doubles | Women's Singles | Women's Doubles | Mixed Doubles | Total | |
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| Quotas | Athletes | ||||||
 Algeria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
 Belarus | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
 China | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 19 |
 Chinese Taipei | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
 Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Denmark | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
 Egypt | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Estonia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Germany | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
 Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |
 Guatemala | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Hong Kong | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||
 Iceland | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 India | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Indonesia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 |
 Iran | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Japan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | |
 Lithuania | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | |
 Mauritius | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Mexico | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
 Nigeria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Peru | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
 Portugal | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Russia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Seychelles | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
 Singapore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
 Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Slovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 South Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
 South Korea | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 13 |
 Spain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Thailand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
 Uganda | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
 Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
 Zambia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total: 50 NOCs | 41 | 16 | 47 | 16 | 16 | 136 | 173 |
The color pink signifies that a player withdrew from the competition.
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
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| 1 | 1 | Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan | Indonesia | |
| 2 | 2 | Fu Haifeng / Cai Yun | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae | South Korea | |
| 4 | 4 | Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah | Malaysia | |
| 5 | 5 | Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong | Malaysia | |
| 6 | 7 | Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto | Indonesia | |
| 7 | 8 | Lars Paaske / Jonas Rasmussen | Denmark | |
| 8 | 9 | Guo Zhendong / Xie Zhongbo | China | |
| 9 | 10 | Hwang Ji-man / Lee Jae-jin | South Korea | |
| 10 | 11 | Shintaro Ikeda / Shuichi Sakamoto | Japan | |
| 11 | 12 | Jens Eriksen / Martin Lundgaard Hansen | Denmark | |
| 12 | 14 | Keita Masuda / Tadashi Ohtsuka | Japan | |
| — | 16 | Albertus Susanto Njoto / Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama | Hong Kong | [10] |
| 13 | 18 | Michał Łogosz / Robert Mateusiak | Poland | |
| 14 | 21 | Howard Bach / Bob Malaythong | United States | |
| 15 | 42 | Ross Smith / Glenn Warfe | Australia | |
| 16 | 55 | Chris Dednam / Roelof Dednam | South Africa |
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen | China | |
| 2 | 2 | Du Jing / Yu Yang | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Wei Yili / Zhang Yawen | China | |
| 4 | 4 | Lee Hyo-jung / Lee Kyung-won | South Korea | |
| 5 | 5 | Cheng Wen-hsing / Chien Yu-chin | Chinese Taipei | |
| 6 | 6 | Gail Emms / Donna Kellogg | Great Britain | |
| 7 | 7 | Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota | Japan | |
| 8 | 8 | Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna | Japan | |
| 9 | 9 | Vita Marissa / Liliyana Natsir | Indonesia | |
| 10 | 10 | Chin Eei Hui / Wong Pei Tty | Malaysia | |
| 11 | 11 | Jiang Yanmei / Li Yujia | Singapore | |
| 12 | 13 | Lena Frier Kristiansen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl | Denmark | |
| 13 | 15 | Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung | South Korea | |
| 14 | 36 | Eva Lee / Mesinee Mangkalakiri | United States | |
| 15 | 49 | Tania Luiz / Eugenia Tanaka | Australia | |
| 16 | 79 | Chantal Botts / Michelle Edwards | South Africa |
| No. | Rank | Players | NOC | Note |
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| 1 | 1 | Nova Widianto / Liliyana Natsir | Indonesia | |
| 2 | 2 | Zheng Bo / Gao Ling | China | |
| 3 | 3 | Flandy Limpele / Vita Marissa | Indonesia | |
| 4 | 4 | He Hanbin / Yu Yang | China | |
| 5 | 6 | Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms | Great Britain | |
| 6 | 7 | Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam | Thailand | |
| 7 | 8 | Anthony Clark / Donna Kellogg | Great Britain | |
| 8 | 9 | Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl | Denmark | |
| 9 | 10 | Lee Yong-dae / Lee Hyo-jung | South Korea | |
| 10 | 11 | Han Sang-hoon / Hwang Yu-mi | South Korea | |
| 11 | 12 | Robert Mateusiak / Nadieżda Kostiuczyk | Poland | |
| 12 | 13 | Kristof Hopp / Birgit Overzier | Germany | |
| 13 | 14 | Hendri Kurniawan Saputra / Li Yujia | Singapore | |
| — | 21 | Howard Bach / Eva Lee | United States | [11] |
| 14 | 31 | Craig Cooper / Renee Flavell | New Zealand | |
| 15 | 42 | Mike Beres / Valerie Loker | Canada | |
| 16 | 75 | Georgie Cupidon / Juliette Ah-Wan | Seychelles |
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