When was badminton added to the olympics

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Malaysia pip Indonesia to bronze for first medal in Tokyo Malaysia have claimed their first medal at Tokyo by winning the badminton men's doubles bronze medal match at the expense of rivals Indonesia.

Ginting downs Antonsen to reach Olympic men's singles semi-finals Indonesia's Anthony Sinisuka Ginting is through to the badminton men's singles semi-finals at the Tokyo Games and is one win away from securing a medal.

Indonesia reach historic women's doubles final Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu have guaranteed Indonesia a first-ever Olympic medal in the badminton women's doubles after reaching the final. Korea, South Indonesia Japan Denmark Spain Malaysia United Kingdom India Netherlands The other problem was as it was not a Demonstration sport the players were not allowed to stay in the Olympic Village or march at the opening ceremony with their national teams.

All the badminton players stayed in six apartments in Seoul which provided all the facilities of a good hotel. Han Aiping CHN , , Badminton had its debut as an official medal sport at the Barcelona Olympics.

At 10 am on 28 July the long-cherished dream of millions of badminton fans finally materialized. Foo Kok Keong of Malaysia struck the first shuttlecock in the Olympic badminton history in the brand-new Pavella de la Mar Bella, Barcelona saw players from 37 countries take part.

The tournament was run as a knockout competition and no playoffs were contested for semi-final losers, meaning that two bronze medals were awarded. The on-court action justified all the hard work that had gone into bringing badminton to the Olympics.

There was no mixed doubles event at this Olympics. The television viewing figures were enormous and the new sport had made its initial impact. All around the world badminton associations joined their national Olympic committees, and the money to develop the sport began to flow in. At the Atlanta Olympic Games, Mixed Doubles was introduced making badminton one of the few sports in which men and women share the field of play.

As well as the four events held in Barcelona and an additional change to the tournament was the play off game for the Bronze medal rather than awarding two of bronzes. The tournament was held at the Georgia State University Gymnasium. He is the first and only European male to win a gold medal at the games. This would be the first gold medal for China in the Olympic Games.

Ge Fei and Gu Jun China. Photos: — Preben B. China won the majority of the badminton medals available at this Olympics, winning 4 of the 5 golds, 1 silver and 3 of the 5 bronzes. Martin led the first game, but lost , Great Britain won their first Olympic medal a Bronze in the Mixed Doubles, despite Archer suffering from a chest injury he had unfortunately picked up in the quarter-finals. The badminton event was a huge success from the near-perfect conditions for both players and officials, to the sell-out crowds for all but the first round of matches.

Shon Seung-mo Korea , Mia Audina Netherlands , , Lee Dong-soo and Yoo Yong-sung Korea , Huang Sui and Gao Ling China , , Tracey Hallam saved two match points in the third game to beat Camilla Martin Denmark the silver medalist to reach the quarter-finals but lost to the eventual Silver medal winner Mia Audina now playing for Netherlands.

With competitors from 50 nations. Lee Chong Wei Malaysia , Xie Xingfang China , , Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng China , , Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung Korea , Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir Indonesia , For Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms Great Britain the Beijing mixed doubles was tough for the defending silver medal winners from Athens due to Injuries denying them results and costing them seeding and Robertson last moment ankle operation followed by four months without match practice.

They had to play the world number one pair in the first round which they won then they lost to the eventual gold medal winners from Korea in the second round. All the other GB players had tough draws losing in the 2 nd round for the singles players and the other doubles pairs losing in the 1 st round. All 15 medals went to Asia with China winning 8.

Click on the images to enlarge. At the London Olympics badminton was held at the Wembley Arena which was originally used for swimming in the London Olympics, also it had been the home of the All-England Badminton Championships from Badminton history played its part in the London Olympic Games opening ceremony, where a man and women dressed in Victorian costumes were seen playing badminton in the opening ceremony.

The wooden rackets they used in this ceremony were sold on the London auction site a few days later for hundreds of pounds. London saw the introduction of group competition followed by knock-out. This resulted in more match play for competitors and a significant increase in television production hours. For the first time, the earlier rounds in all events would be played in groups and the winner of the groups in singles would go through to the knockout rounds and in the doubles, the winner and runner-up would go through to the knockout rounds.

All four pairs were disqualified from the Tournament for unethical play and later they were given bans from the Badminton World Federation. Photos: — Alan Spink — Action Photography. They had encountered the Chinese pair of Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng eight times before and only twice had the Danes been victorious. The first set was an easy win for the Chinese pair. However, in the second game Fujii and Kakiiwa piled on the pressure saving three match points before the Chinese eventually lifted the gold medals