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| Women's doubles at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Riocentro - Pavilion 4 | ||||||||||||
| Date | 11–18 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||
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| List of players Qualification | |||
| Singles | men | women | |
| Doubles | men | women | mixed |
The badminton women's doubles tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place from 11 to 17 August at Riocentro - Pavilion 4. The seeding was decided on 21 July 2016. [1]
Japan's Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi defeated Denmark's Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl 18–21, 21–9, 21–19, to win the gold medal in women's doubles badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [2] It was Japan's first gold medal in Olympics badminton, and their win marked the first time since the debut of badminton as an Olympic sport in 1992 that a non-Chinese women's doubles team won the event. [3] In the bronze-medal match, South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun and Shin Seung-chan defeated China's Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang 21–8, 21–17, marking the first time in Olympic badminton history that a Chinese team failed to podium in the women's doubles event. [2]
