Badminton at the Asian Games

Badminton at the Asian Games
Dates	1958 (demonstration), 1962-present (official)
Competitors	OCA member competitors from OCA member nations

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
4	1962	Jakarta, Indonesia	Indonesia
5	1966	Bangkok, Thailand	Indonesia
6	1970	Bangkok, Thailand	Japan
7	1974	Tehran, Iran	China
8	1978	Bangkok, Thailand	Indonesia
9	1982	New Delhi, India	China
10	1986	Seoul, South Korea	China
11	1990	Beijing, China	China
12	1994	Hiroshima, Japan	South Korea
13	1998	Bangkok, Thailand	China
14	2002	Busan, South Korea	South Korea
15	2006	Doha, Qatar	China
16	2010	Guangzhou, China	China
17	2014	Incheon, South Korea	China
18	2018	Jakarta–Palembang, Indonesia	China
19	2022	Hangzhou, China	China
20	2026	Aichi–Nagoya, Japan	China

Events

Participating nations

Nation	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	22	26	Years
Afghanistan														2	2			2
Bahrain												2					1	2
Bangladesh																	5	1
Bhutan																2		1
Cambodia	X								3	2						2		4
China				12	12	12	16	16	16	16	19	16	20	20	20	20	20	14
Chinese Taipei		X							8	16	4	9	20	20	20	20	20	10
Timor-Leste											2	2				3		3
Hong Kong		4	8	6	8	6	6	8	8	10	10	13	12	18	20	20	20	16
India				X	X	X	12			1	2	10	17	15	20	19	20	12
Indonesia	10	X	X	X	X	12	14	16	16	16	12	16	20	18	20	20	20	17
Iran				X						4		2		2	2	2	2	7
Iraq													1					1
Japan	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	12	16	11	11	11	16	20	20	20	20	17
Jordan																1		1
Kazakhstan																2	9	2
Laos																	2	1
Macau											2	4	6	10	4	6	6	7
Malaysia	10	X	X	X	X	X	7	7	9	16	17	16	18	20	14	18	20	17
Maldives									4				3	8	8	8	4	6
Mongolia											4	2	4	4	4	13	16	7
Myanmar		X																1
Nepal		X	X	X	X		8					1	5	8	8	8	4	11
North Korea				X				6									2	3
Pakistan				X	X		2	6		2				4	8	4	2	9
Philippines	X	X	X	X	X					4	1	2						8
Qatar														1				1
Saudi Arabia															2			1
Singapore	X								3		2	12	2	6		13	4	8
South Korea		X	X	X	X	X	16	16	16	16	20	16	20	20	20	20	20	16
Sri Lanka		X					1	2		2	1	4	4		6	1	3	10
Syria											1	4						2
Tajikistan																	2	1
Thailand	9	X	X	X	X	X	5	12	13	16	12	16	20	20	20	20	20	17
Vietnam												4	2	5	6	4	6	6
Number of nations	7	11	8	13	11		11	10	11	14	16	20	17	19	19	23	24
Number of athletes							98	101	112	132	120	162	190	221	224	246	248

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		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
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		Tang Jiuhong	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua		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		Ge Fei Gu Jun	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min		China
2002	Taufik Hidayat	Zhou Mi	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won		South Korea
2006		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
2014		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				South Korea
2026	Kunlavut Vitidsarn		Leo Rolly Carnando Daniel Marthin	Baek Ha-na Lee So-hee	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin	Indonesia	China

Performance by nations

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD*	MT	WT	Total
1	China	8	8	1	8	6	7	11	49
2	Indonesia	7	1	9	4	2	6	1	30
3	South Korea	0	3	2	4	6	3	2	20
4	Malaysia	1	0	4	0	2	0	0	7
	Japan	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	7
6	Thailand	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
7	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	India	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total		17	17	17	17	16	17	17	118

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

As of 2026 edition

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	49	35	40	124
2	Indonesia (INA)	30	28	47	105
3	South Korea (KOR)	20	19	39	78
4	Japan (JPN)	7	11	31	49
5	Malaysia (MAS)	7	8	22	37
6	Thailand (THA)	2	11	17	30
7	India (IND)	1	2	11	14
8	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	2	5	8
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	8	10
10	Singapore (SGP)	0	1	1	2
11	Myanmar (MYA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		118	118	223	459

References

External links

• BAC: Asian Games
• "Doha 2006: Medalists from previous Asian Games". doha-2006.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007.
• Sports123: Asian Games badminton