Tournament details | |||
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Dates | 9–11 September | ||
Edition | 3rd | ||
Competitors | 86 [1] from 24 nations | ||
Venue | National Sports Centre | ||
Location | Douglas | ||
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Badminton was one of the seven events of 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games staged in the Isle of Man. There were five contests in the sport: boys' singles, boys' doubles, girls' singles, girls' doubles, and mixed doubles. Each Commonwealth Games Association could send up to two athletes (or two pairs) per event, for a maximum of four athletes per sex. The age of participating athletes was limited to the 14–18 years, so that only those born in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 or 1997 were eligible to take part. [2]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Boys' singles [3] | Zulfadli Zulkiffli Malaysia (MAS) | Sameer Verma India (IND) | Rhys Walker England (ENG) |
Girls' singles [4] | P. V. Sindhu India (IND) | Sonia Cheah Su Ya Malaysia (MAS) | Kirsty Gilmour Scotland (SCO) |
Boys' doubles [5] | Nelson Heg Wei Keat Teo Ee Yi Malaysia (MAS) | Ryan McCarthy Tom Wolfenden England (ENG) | Srikanth Kidambi Hema Thandarang India (IND) |
Girls' doubles [6] | Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean Malaysia (MAS) | Sonia Cheah Su Ya Yang Li Lian Malaysia (MAS) | Achininimeshika Rathnasiri Kapuru Mudiyanselage Upuli Samanthika Sri Lanka (SRI) |
Mixed doubles [7] | Teo Ee Yi Chow Mei Kuan Malaysia (MAS) | Srikanth Kidambi Maneesha Kukkapalli India (IND) | Nelson Heg Wei Keat Lee Meng Yean Malaysia (MAS) |
Semifinal | Final | ||||||||||||
Zulfadli Zulkiffli | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Rhys Walker | 12 | 10 | |||||||||||
Zulfadli Zulkiffli | 21 | 17 | 21 | ||||||||||
Sameer Verma | 16 | 21 | 15 | ||||||||||
Tom Wolfenden | 9 | 15 | |||||||||||
Sameer Verma | 21 | 21 | Third place | ||||||||||
Rhys Walker | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Tom Wolfenden | 14 | 18 |
Semifinal | Final | ||||||||||||
P. V. Sindhu | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Yang Li Lian | 12 | 10 | |||||||||||
P. V. Sindhu | 22 | 21 | |||||||||||
Soniia Cheah Su Ya | 20 | 8 | |||||||||||
Soniia Cheah Su Ya | 21 | 10 | 21 | ||||||||||
Kirsty Gilmour | 19 | 21 | 11 | Third place | |||||||||
Yang Li Lian | 16 | 20 | |||||||||||
Kirsty Gilmour | 21 | 22 |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Nathan Choi Nyl Yakura | 17 | 11 | |||||||||||
Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi | 24 | 21 | |||||||||||
Ryan McCarthy Tom Wolfenden | 22 | 16 | |||||||||||
Hema Thandarang Srikanth Kidambi | 21 | 14 | 20 | ||||||||||
Ryan McCarthy Tom Wolfenden | 8 | 21 | 22 | Third place | |||||||||
Nathan Choi Nyl Yakura | 14 | 21 | 12 | ||||||||||
Hema Thandarang Srikanth Kidambi | 21 | 15 | 21 |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Jacqueline Guan Gronya Somerville | 7 | 19 | |||||||||||
Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Soniia Cheah Su Ya Yang Li Lian | 17 | 8 | |||||||||||
Achini Ratnasiri Upuli Samanthika | 16 | 20 | |||||||||||
Soniia Cheah Su Ya Yang Li Lian | 21 | 22 | Third place | ||||||||||
Jacqueline Guan Gronya Somerville | 12 | 21 | 16 | ||||||||||
Achini Ratnasiri Upuli Samanthika | 21 | 19 | 21 |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Teo Ee Yi Chow Mei Kuan | 21 | 21 | |||||||||||
Ryan McCarthy Emily Westwood | 18 | 14 | |||||||||||
Teo Ee Yi Chow Mei Kuan | 18 | 21 | 21 | ||||||||||
Srikanth Kidambi K. Maneesha | 21 | 16 | 8 | ||||||||||
Nelson Heg Lee Meng Yean | 18 | 19 | |||||||||||
Srikanth Kidambi K. Maneesha | 21 | 21 | Third place | ||||||||||
Ryan McCarthy Emily Westwood | 14 | 10 | |||||||||||
Nelson Heg Lee Meng Yean | 21 | 21 |
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