Badminton at the Asian Games

Last updated March 28, 2025

Badminton has been one of the regular Asian Games sports since 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

History

Badminton made its debut in the Asian Games as a demonstration sport at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, and became a regular competitive sport in 1962.^[1] In the 1962 Games, six events were held, with singles, doubles and team event for both men and women. The mixed doubles event was added in 1966 Asian Games. There was a playoff between the two semifinal losers to determine the sole winner of the bronze medal in 1962; but since 1966, two bronze medals per event are awarded in each event (except in 1974).

Competition

Asian Games badminton consists of a single-elimination tournament. Each match is played to the best of three games, each game is of 21 points. Rally scoring is used, meaning a player does not need to be serving to score. A player must win by two points or be the first player to 30 points.^[2]

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Best nation
IV	1962	Jakarta, Indonesia	Indonesia
V	1966	Bangkok, Thailand	Indonesia
VI	1970	Bangkok, Thailand	Japan
VII	1974	Tehran, Iran	China
VIII	1978	Bangkok, Thailand	Indonesia
IX	1982	New Delhi, India	China
X	1986	Seoul, South Korea	China
XI	1990	Beijing, China	China
XII	1994	Hiroshima, Japan	South Korea
XIII	1998	Bangkok, Thailand	China
XIV	2002	Busan, South Korea	South Korea
XV	2006	Doha, Qatar	China
XVI	2010	Guangzhou, China	China
XVII	2014	Incheon, South Korea	China
XVIII	2018	Jakarta–Palembang, Indonesia	China
XIX	2022	Hangzhou, China	China
XX	2026	Aichi–Nagoya, Japan
XXI	2030	Doha, Qatar
XXII	2034	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Events

Event	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	22	Years

Men's singles	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Men's doubles	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Men's team	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Women's singles	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Women's doubles	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Women's team	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16
Mixed doubles		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	15

Total	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7

Participating nations

Nation	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	Years

Afghanistan														2	2	2
Bahrain												2				1
Cambodia	X								3	2						3
China				12	12	12	16	16	16	16	19	16	20	20	20	12
Chinese Taipei		X							8	16	4	9	20	20	20	8
Timor-Leste											2	2				2
Hong Kong		4	8	6	8	6	6	8	8	10	10	13	12	18	20	14
India				X	X	X	12			1	2	10	17	15	20	10
Indonesia	10	X	X	X	X	12	14	16	16	16	12	16	20	18	20	15
Iran				X						4		2		2	2	5
Iraq													1			1
Japan	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	12	16	11	11	11	16	20	20	15
Macau											2	4	6	10	4	5
Malaysia	10	X	X	X	X	X	7	7	9	16	17	16	18	20	14	15
Maldives									4				3	8	8	4
Mongolia											4	2	4	4	4	5
Myanmar		X														1
Nepal		X	X	X	X		8					1	5	8	8	9
North Korea				X				6								2
Pakistan				X	X		2	6		2				4	8	7
Philippines	X	X	X	X	X					4	1	2				8
Qatar														1		1
Saudi Arabia															2	1
Singapore	X								3		2	12	2	6		6
South Korea		X	X	X	X	X	16	16	16	16	20	16	20	20	20	14
Sri Lanka		X					1	2		2	1	4	4		6	8
Syria											1	4				2
Thailand	9	X	X	X	X	X	5	12	13	16	12	16	20	20	20	15
Vietnam												4	2	5	6	4

Number of nations	7	11	8	13	11		11	10	11	14	16	20	17	19	19
Number of athletes							98	101	112	132	120	162	190	221	224

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Men's team	Women's team
1962	Tan Joe Hok	Minarni	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Minarni Retno Kustijah	not conducted	Indonesia	Indonesia
1966	Ang Tjin Siang	Noriko Takagi	Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan	Minarni Retno Kustijah	Teh Kew San Rosalind Singha Ang	Thailand	Japan
1970	Punch Gunalan	Hiroe Yuki	Ng Boon Bee Punch Gunalan	Etsuko Takenaka Machiko Aizawa	Ng Boon Bee Sylvia Ng	Indonesia	Japan
1974	Hou Jiachang	Chen Yuniang	Tjun Tjun Johan Wahjudi	Liang Qiuxia Zheng Huiming	Christian Hadinata Regina Masli	China	China
1978	Liem Swie King	Liang Qiuxia	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguna	Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing	Indonesia
1982	Han Jian	Zhang Ailing	Icuk Sugiarto Christian Hadinata	Hwang Sun-ai Kang Haeng-suk	Christian Hadinata Ivana Lie	China
1986	Zhao Jianhua	Han Aiping	Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo	Lin Ying Guan Weizhen	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee	South Korea
1990	Zhao Jianhua	Tang Jiuhong	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee	China
1994	Hariyanto Arbi	Bang Soo-hyun	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Shim Eun-jung Jang Hye-ock	Yoo Yong-sung Chung So-young	Indonesia	South Korea
1998	Dong Jiong	Kanako Yonekura	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min	Indonesia	China
2002	Taufik Hidayat	Zhou Mi	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min	South Korea
2006	Taufik Hidayat	Wang Chen	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Zheng Bo Gao Ling	China
2010	Lin Dan	Wang Shixian	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Shin Baek-cheol Lee Hyo-jung	China
2014	Lin Dan	Wang Yihan	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Greysia Polii	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei	South Korea
2018	Jonatan Christie	Tai Tzu-ying	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong	China	Japan
2022	Li Shifeng	An Se-young	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong	China	South Korea

Performance by nations

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD*	MT	WT	Total
1	China	8	8	1	8	5	7	10	47
2	Indonesia	7	1	8	4	2	5	1	28
3	South Korea	0	2	2	3	6	3	2	18
4	Malaysia	1	0	4	0	2	0	0	7
5	Japan	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	7
6	Hong Kong	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	India	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
6	Thailand	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Total		16	16	16	16	15	16	16	111

Notes: The table above shows number of gold medals won by countries. At the 1962 Asian Games, mixed doubles discipline wasn't conducted, so the number of gold medals aren't equal with others disciplines.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	47	32	37	116
2	Indonesia (INA)	28	27	44	99
3	South Korea (KOR)	18	19	36	73
4	Japan (JPN)	7	9	30	46
5	Malaysia (MAS)	7	8	21	36
6	Thailand (THA)	1	11	16	28
7	India (IND)	1	2	10	13
8	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	2	5	8
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	7	9
10	Myanmar (MYA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Singapore (SGP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		111	111	209	431

References

↑ "Badminton – History". doha-2006.com. Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
↑ "Sports – Badminton". gz2010.cn. Guangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (GAGOC). 30 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

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[doha1-1] "Badminton – History". doha-2006.com. Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

[gz2010-2] "Sports – Badminton". gz2010.cn. Guangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (GAGOC). 30 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

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