Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Qualification for badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics begins on 1 January 2019 to 16 May 2021. There are 90 expected slots (46 male, 44 female) for the sport across fourteen medal events.

Timeline

Eligible athletes have to gain points to qualify to compete at the Games. The list will be published on 20 May 2021. This table shows the timeline of championships where athletes have to earn points to be able to qualify. ^[1]

Competition	Date	Venue
Turkish Para-Badminton International 2019	26–31 March 2019	Antalya
Dubai Para-Badminton International 2019	2–7 April 2019	Dubai
Uganda Para-Badminton International 2019	23–28 April 2019	Kampala
Canada Para-Badminton International 2019	7–12 May 2019	Ottawa
Irish Para-Badminton International 2019	17–23 June 2019	Dublin
2019 BWF Para-Badminton World Championships	20–25 August 2019	Basel
Thailand Para-Badminton International 2019	16–22 September 2019	Bangkok
China Para-Badminton International 2019	23–29 September 2019	Beijing
Denmark Para-Badminton International 2019	15–20 October 2019	Odense
Japan Para-Badminton International 2019 (Paralympic Games Test Event)	11–17 November 2019	Tokyo
Australia Para-Badminton International 2019	19–24 November 2019	Melbourne
Brazil Para-Badminton International 2020	10–16 February 2020	São Paulo
Dubai Para-Badminton International 2021	30 March–4 April 2021	Dubai
Spanish Para-Badminton International 2021	11–16 May 2021	Cartagena

Qualification

The qualification slots are allocated to the individual athlete or doubles pair, not to the NPC. The qualification ranking list is regulated by the BWF. ^[2]

• An NPC can allocated a maximum of eleven male and ten female qualifications slots (total of 21). Exceptions are only granted via the Bipartite Commission Invitation method.
• An NPC can enter maximum of two athletes per singles event, except for the following listed events:
  • Men's singles SS6 can only have one allowed to participate.
  • Women's singles SL4 can have a maximum of three female athletes if they are qualified via the Paralympic Doubles Ranking List allocation.
  • Women's singles SU5 can have a maximum of three female athletes if two are qualified either via the Paralympic Doubles ranking list or Mixed Doubles quota allocation and one via the Singles ranking list allocation.
  • Through Bipartite Commission Invitees
• An NPC can enter one doubles pair per doubles event via the Road to Tokyo Paralympic Doubles Ranking List.
• Selected athletes have to play in a minimum of three of the listed events in order to be ranked and to qualify for the Games.

Entries into singles event from doubles

• Both players from WH1 or WH1-WH2 pair that qualifies for the men's or women's doubles events will automatically gain entry into their respective singles events if they wish to do so.
• All male SL3, SL4, SU5 players who qualify in the mixed doubles event will automatically be able to play in their respective singles events.
• All female SL4 and SU5 players who qualify in the mixed doubles event will automatically be able to play in their respective singles event unless their NPCs have already reached the maximum entry for the singles event.
• A minimum of one female player from an SL4 pair that qualifies in the Women's doubles SL3-SU5 event is allowed to play in their respective singles event. However, the decision is made by their NPC. All SU5 player who is also qualified for the women's doubles SL3-SU5 event will automatically gain entry into their respective singles event if they wish to do so. Any SL3 player who is also qualified for the women's doubles SL3-SU5 event or mixed doubles event can be entered into the women's singles SL4 according to BWF rules.

Entry requirements

Singles

Event	Minimum entry
Men's singles WH1	8
Men's singles WH2	8
Men's singles SL3	6
Men's singles SL4	6
Men's singles SU5	6
Men's singles SH6	6
Women's singles WH1	8
Women's singles WH2	8
Women's singles SL4	6
Women's singles SU5	6

Doubles

Event	Sport class	Points	Combinations permitted	Combinations not permitted	Entry numbers Minimum entry
Men's doubles	WH1 & WH2	Maximum: 3 points	WH1 + WH2 WH1 + WH1	WH2 + WH2	6 pairs
Women's doubles
	SL3 - SU5	Minimum: 7 points Maximum: 8 points	SL3 + SL4 SL3 + SU5 SL4 + SL4	SL3 + SL3 SL4 + SU5 SU5 + SU5	6 pairs
Mixed doubles		Maximum: 8 points	SL3 + SL3 SL3 + SL4 SL3 + SU5 SL4 + SL4	SL4 + SU5 SU5 + SU5	6 pairs

Slot allocations

Means of qualification	Date	WH1	WH2	SL3	SL4	SU5	SS6	Total entries
Paralympic Doubles Ranking List Allocation	List publishes: 20 May 2021	Men's doubles: 6 highest ranked pairs		Women's doubles: 6 highest ranked pairs			—N/a	16 male 30 female
		Women's doubles: 2 highest ranked pairs		Mixed doubles: 2 highest ranked pairs			—N/a
Paralympic Singles Ranking List Allocation		Depends on Doubles Ranking List		3 highest ranked males	3 highest ranked males 2 highest ranked females		5 highest ranked males	17 male 7 female
Bipartite Commission Invitation	16 June 2021	3 males and 3 females		9 males and 4 females			1 male	13 male 7 female
							Total	90

Qualification summary

NOC	Men							Women						Mixed	Total
	Singles						Doubles	Singles				Doubles		Doubles	Quotas	Athletes
	WH1	WH2	SL3	SL4	SU5	SH6	WH1 WH2	WH1	WH2	SL4	SU5	WH1 WH2	SL3 SU5	SL3 SU5
Australia		1								1					2	2
Brazil						1									1	1
Canada										1					1	1
China	1	1					1	2	2	2	1	1	1		12	9
Chinese Taipei					1										1	1
Denmark											1				1	1
Egypt					1										1	1
France	1	1		1	1		1			1			1	1	8	6
Germany	2			1			1	2		1		1		1	9	6
Great Britain		1	1			2									4	4
Hong Kong		1				1									2	2
India			2	2		1				1	1		1	1	9	7
Indonesia			1	2	2					2			1	1	9	7
Israel								1							1	1
Japan (H)	2	1	1		1		1	1	2	1	3	1	1	1	16	13
Malaysia					1	1									2	2
Netherlands											1				1	1
Norway										1					1	1
Peru									1						1	1
Poland					1										1	1
Portugal											1				1	1
RPC									1						1	1
South Korea	2	2		1			1	1	1			1			9	7
Switzerland								2				1			3	2
Thailand	1	1		1			1	1	1	2		1	1	1	11	7
Turkey									1		1				2	2
Uganda											1				1	1
Ukraine			1												1	1
Total: 28 NOCs	9	9	6	8	8	6	6	10	9	13	10	6	6	6	112	90

Qualified players

Race to Tokyo Paralympic Singles Ranking List was published on 20 May 2021. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Singles

Men's singles WH1 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Qu Zimo   China 2 2 Lee Dong-seop   South Korea 3 3 Lee Sam-seop   South Korea 4 5 Thomas Wandschneider   Germany 5 8 Hiroshi Murayama   Japan 6 9 Young-chin Mi   Germany 7 10 Osamu Nagashima   Japan 8 12 David Toupé   France 9 13 Jakarin Homhual   Thailand

Men's singles WH2 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Kim Jung-jun   South Korea 2 2 Chan Ho Yuen   Hong Kong 3 3 Kim Kyung-hoon   South Korea 4 4 Daiki Kajiwara   Japan 5 5 Martin Rooke   Great Britain 6 8 Mai Jianpeng   China 7 12 Thomas Jakobs   France 8 17 Dumnern Junthong   Thailand 9 30 Grant Manzoney   Australia

Men's singles SL3 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Pramod Bhagat   India 2 2 Daniel Bethell   Great Britain 3 3 Manoj Sarkar   India 4 4 Daisuke Fujihara   Japan 5 5 Ukun Rukaendi   Indonesia 6 8 Oleksandr Chyrkov   Ukraine

Men's singles SL4 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Lucas Mazur   France 2 2 Tarun Dhillon   India 3 3 Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj   India 4 4 Fredy Setiawan   Indonesia 5 6 Shin Kyung-hwan   South Korea 6 7 Siripong Teamarrom   Thailand 7 17 Jan-Niklas Pott   Germany 8 – Hary Susanto   Indonesia

Men's singles SU5 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Dheva Anrimusthi   Indonesia 2 2 Cheah Liek Hou   Malaysia 3 3 Suryo Nugroho   Indonesia 4 4 Bartłomiej Mróz   Poland 5 5 Taiyo Imai   Japan 6 6 Meril Loquette   France 7 7 Fang Jen-yu   Chinese Taipei 8 26 Ahmed Eldakrory   Egypt

Men's singles SH6 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Krishna Nagar   India 2 2 Jack Shephard   Great Britain 3 3 Chu Man Kai   Hong Kong 4 4 Krysten Coombs   Great Britain 5 6 Vitor Gonçalves Tavares   Brazil 6 7 Didin Taresoh   Malaysia

Women's singles WH1 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Sarina Satomi   Japan 2 2 Valeska Knoblauch   Germany 3 3 Sujirat Pookkham   Thailand 4 4 Yin Menglu   China 5 5 Karin Suter-Erath   Switzerland 6 6 Zhang Jing   China 7 7 Nina Gorodetzky   Israel 8 8 Kang Jung-kum   South Korea 9 12 Cynthia Mathez   Switzerland 10 17 Elke Rongen   Germany

Women's singles WH2 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Liu Yutong   China 2 2 Xu Tingting   China 3 4 Yuma Yamazaki   Japan 4 5 Amnouy Wetwithan   Thailand 5 6 Rie Ogura   Japan 6 7 Emine Seçkin   Turkey 7 8 Pilar Jáuregui   Peru 8 9 Tatiana Gureeva   RPC 9 10 Lee Sun-ae   South Korea

Women's singles SL4 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Leani Ratri Oktila   Indonesia 2 2 Cheng Hefang   China 3 3 Helle Sofie Sagøy   Norway 4 4 Haruka Fujino   Japan 5 5 Ma Huihui   China 6 6 Khalimatus Sadiyah   Indonesia 7 7 Faustine Noël   France 8 8 Chanida Srinavakul   Thailand 9 10 Katrin Seibert   Germany 10 11 Caitlin Dransfield   Australia 11 14 Olivia Meier   Canada 12 26 Parul Parmar   India 13 – Nipada Saensupa   Thailand

Women's singles SU5 No. QR Athlete Country 1 1 Yang Qiuxia   China 2 2 Ayako Suzuki   Japan 3 3 Cathrine Rosengren   Denmark 4 4 Kaede Kameyama   Japan 5 7 Megan Hollander   Netherlands 6 8 Zehra Bağlar   Turkey 7 9 Beatriz Monteiro   Portugal 8 10 Palak Kohli   India 9 19 Ritah Asiimwe   Uganda 10 – Akiko Sugino   Japan

Doubles

Men's doubles WH1–WH2 No. QR Athlete Classify Country 1 1 Qu Zimo WH1   China Mai Jianpeng WH2   China 2 2 Lee Dong-seop WH1   South Korea Kim Jung-jun WH2   South Korea 3 3 Hiroshi Murayama WH1   Japan Daiki Kajiwara WH2   Japan 4 9 David Toupé WH1   France Thomas Jakobs WH2   France 4 9 Jakarin Homhual WH1   Thailand Dumern Junthong WH2   Thailand 6 11 Young-chin Mi WH1   Germany Thomas Wandschneider WH1   Germany

Women's doubles WH1–WH2 No. QR Athlete Classify Country 1 1 Sarina Satomi WH1   Japan Yuma Yamazaki WH2   Japan 2 2 Yin Menglu WH1   China Liu Yutong WH2   China 3 3 Sujirat Pookkham WH1   Thailand Amnouy Wetwithan WH2   Thailand 4 6 Kang Jung-kum WH1   South Korea Lee Sun-ae WH2   South Korea 5 7 Cynthia Mathez WH1   Switzerland Karin Suter-Erath WH1   Switzerland 6 8 Valeska Knoblauch WH1   Germany Elke Rongen WH1   Germany

Women's doubles SL3–SU5 No. QR Athlete Classify Country 1 1 Cheng Hefang SL4   China Ma Huihui SL4   China 2 2 Leani Ratri Oktila SL4   Indonesia Khalimatus Sadiyah SL4   Indonesia 3 3 Noriko Ito SL3   Japan Ayako Suzuki SU5   Japan 4 4 Nipada Saensupa SL4   Thailand Chanida Srinavakul SL4   Thailand 5 5 Lénaïg Morin SL4   France Faustine Noël SL4   France 6 6 Parul Parmar SL3   India Palak Kohli SU5   India

Mixed doubles SL3–SU5 No. QR Athlete Classify Country 1 1 Hary Susanto SL4   Indonesia Leani Ratri Oktila SL4   Indonesia 2 2 Lucas Mazur SL4   France Faustine Noël SL4   France 3 3 Siripog Teamarrom SL4   Thailand Nipada Saensupa SL4   Thailand 4 4 Jan-Niklas Pott SL4   Germany Katrin Seibert SL4   Germany 5 7 Daisuke Fujihara SL3   Japan Akiko Sugino SU5   Japan 6 31 Pramod Bhagat SL3   India Palak Kohli SU5   India

See also

• Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

References

1. "BWF Para-Badminton 2019 - 2020 Calendar". badmintoneurope.com. 12 October 2019.
2. "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 7 April 2021.
3. "Race to Tokyo 2020-Singles-2020 Paralympics" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
4. "Race to Tokyo 2020-Doubles-2020 Paralympics" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-24. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
5. "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Badminton Competition Entry List" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 9 August 2021.