Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The Olympic qualification period was between 2 May 2011 and 29 April 2012, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, published on 3 May 2012, was used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a total of three players. Three quota places if three players are ranked four or above, two if two players are ranked 16 or above and otherwise one quota place until the quota contingent of 38 is filled.

For each male player who qualifies in more than one discipline, an additional quota place in the Men's Singles becomes free. If no player from one continent can qualify, the best ranked player from this continent gets a quota place.

Qualifying criteria

The main qualifying criterion was the BWF Ranking list as of May 3, 2012. It provided a total of 16 pairs in each doubles event and 38 athletes in each singles event, in the following manner: Rankings 1–4: Players/pairs were taken in turn unless a NOC had already qualified 3 players/pairs. Rankings 5–16: Players/pairs were taken in turn unless a NOC had already qualified 2 players/pairs. Rankings 17+: Players/pairs were taken in turn unless a NOC had already qualified 1 player/pair.

Each continent was guaranteed one entry in each event. If this was not satisfied by the entry selection method described above, the highest ranking player/pair was qualified. If there was no player/pair in the rankings, the winner of the most recently contested Continental Championship was qualified. A country could only advantage from this rule twice.

The host nation (Great Britain) was entitled to enter 2 players in total, but more than 2 players were permitted if they all qualified under qualifying regulations.

There were also 2 invitational places in each singles event which were allocated by the IOC Tripartite Commission, however the BWF decided to allocate wildcards to men only.

Qualification summary NOCMen's SinglesMen's DoublesWomen's SinglesWomen's DoublesMixed DoublesTotal Quotas Athletes 1113 5 112 2 112 2 11 1 11 1 1113 4 3232212 17 112116 8 112 2 211127 9 11 1 11 1 112 2 112 2 11114 6 1113 4 11 1 1113 4 11 1 11114 5 211116 9 112 2 11 1 11 1 211217 11 11 1 11114 6 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 112 2 11114 6 112 2 111115 6 1113 4 11 1 11 1 1 12 4 222219 12 112 2 1 12 2 11 1 11 1 11 1 11114 6 11 1 11 1 112 2 112 3 11 1 Total: 57 NOCs 4016461616134172

Qualifiers The color pink signifies that a player was withdrawn from the competition.

Men's singles No.RankPlayerNOCNote11Lee Chong WeiAsia22Lin Dan33Chen Long44Chen Jin55Peter GadeEurope66Sho Sasaki77Lee Hyun-il88Kenichi Tago99Simon Santoso1011Nguyễn Tiến Minh1112Taufik Hidayat1213Jan Ø. Jørgensen1314Shon Wan-ho1415Marc Zwiebler1519Rajiv Ouseph1620Wong Wing Ki1722Pablo Abian1824Kashyap Parupalli1925Hsu Jen-hao2028Boonsak Ponsana2129Kevin CordónPan America2234Przemysław Wacha2336Brice Leverdez2437Ville Lang40Eric PangEurope2542Derek Wong2643Henri Hurskainen2745Vladimir Ivanov2846Dmytro Zavadsky2947Niluka Karunaratne3050Yuhan Tan3159Pedro Martins3260Michael Lahnsteiner3364Misha Zilberman3465Rodrigo Pacheco Re-distributed doubles quota3566Raul Must Re-distributed doubles quota3667Scott Evans Re-distributed unused quota3770Petr Koukal Re-distributed unused quota3898Edwin EkiringAfrica121James EunsonOceania39221Virgil SoeroredjoTripartite invitation40226Mohamed Ajfan RasheedTripartite invitation

Women's singles No.RankPlayerNOCNote11Wang YihanAsia22Wang Xin3Wang Shixian34Li XueruiRe-distributed unused quota45Saina Nehwal57Tine BaunEurope68Juliane Schenk79Cheng Shao-chieh810Sung Ji-hyun911Ratchanok Intanon1012Tai Tzu-ying1113Bae Youn-joo1215Sayaka Sato1316Gu Juan1418Yao Jie1520Petya Nedelcheva1621Pi Hongyan1722Michelle LiPan America1823Yip Pui Yin1927Carolina Marín2033Agnese Allegrini34Maria Febe Kusumastuti2136Susan Egelstaff 2237Neslihan Yiğit2339Anastasia Prokopenko2440Adrianti FirdasariRe-distributed unused quota41Jeanine Cicognini2544Chloe Magee2645Larisa Griga46Michelle Chan Kit YingOceania2747Kristina Gavnholt2855Lianne Tan2957Rena Wang3059Tee Jing Yi65Anne Hald Jensen3168Victoria Montero3269Sabrina JaquetRe-distributed unused quota3370Anu Nieminen3471Telma Santos 3572Ragna Ingolfsdottir 3675Victoria NaRe-distributed doubles quota3776Kamila AugustynRe-distributed doubles quota80Claudia MayerRe-distributed doubles quota3884Simone PrutschRe-distributed unused quota3987Maja TvrdyRe-distributed doubles quota4089Akvile StapusaityteRe-distributed doubles quota4190Claudia RiveroRe-distributed doubles quota4299Monika FasungovaRe-distributed doubles quota43101Alesia ZaitsavaRe-distributed doubles quota44102Hadia HosnyAfrica103Kerry-Lee HarringtonRe-distributed unused quota45105Sara Blengsli KværnøRe-distributed unused quota46109Thilini JayasingheRe-distributed unused quota

Men's doubles No.RankPlayersNOCNote11Cai YunFu HaifengAsia22Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae33Mathias Boe Carsten MogensenEurope44Ko Sung-hyun Yoo Yeon-seong55Chai BiaoGuo Zhendong66Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano77Fang Chieh-min Lee Sheng-mu88Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong911Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato1017Bodin Isara Maneepong Jongjit1118Ingo Kindervater Johannes Schöttler1220Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov1321Howard Bach Tony GunawanPan America1422Adam Cwalina Michal Logosz1533Ross Smith Glenn WarfeOceania1648Dorian James Willem ViljoenAfrica

Women's doubles No.RankPlayersNOCNote11Wang XiaoliYu YangAsia22Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei33Ha Jung-eun Kim Min-jung44Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa55Kamilla Rytter JuhlChristinna PedersenEurope66Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna78Jung Kyung-eun Kim Ha-na810Cheng Wen-hsing Chien Yu-chin912Greysia Polii Meiliana Jauhari1013Shinta Mulia Sari Yao Lei1115Poon Lok Yan Tse Ying Suet1216Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa1318Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova 1428Alex Bruce Michelle LiPan America1535Leanne Choo Renuga VeeranOceania1644Michelle Edwards Annari ViljoenAfrica

Mixed doubles No.RankPlayersNOCNote11Zhang NanZhao YunleiAsia22Xu Chen Ma Jin33Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir44Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna PedersenEurope55Chen Hung-ling Cheng Wen-hsing66Thomas LaybournKamilla Rytter Juhl77Lee Yong-dae Ha Jung-eun88Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam99Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying1010Chris Adcock Imogen Bankier1111Shintaro Ikeda Reiko Shiota1212Aleksandr Nikolaenko Valeria Sorokina1314Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta 1416Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels1519Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Zięba1626Toby Ng Grace GaoPan America

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