Badminton at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 12 October. The events took place at the Tecnópolis in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Qualification A total of 32 athletes will participate in each gender. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 competitors per gender should they both rank in the top 4 in the BWF Junior World Rankings. Otherwise each NOC will only be allowed a maximum of 1 competitor per gender.
Each of the five continents must be represented in each gender. 27 quotas per gender will be decided based on BWF World Junior Ranking List on 3 May 2018. Host nation Argentina was ensured one quota place each gender. The remaining 4 quotas were made eligible for Universality Places. To be eligible to participate, athletes must be on BWF World Junior Ranking List on 3 May 2018 and have been born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2003.
Qualification summary NOC Boy Girl Total athletes 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2Total: 46 NOCs 323264
Boys No.RankPlayerNOCNote11Kunlavut VitidsarnAsia22Kodai Naraoka33Nhat NguyenEurope44Lakshya Sen55Li Shifeng66Ikhsan Rumbay79Arnaud Merklé811Chen Shiau-cheng914Brian YangAmerica1015Dmitriy Panarin1116Oscar GuoOceania1218Christopher Grimley1319Cristian Savin1421Julien Carraggi1523Fabricio Farias1624Joel Koh1725Dennis Koppen1828Lukas Resch1929Danylo Bosniuk2032Giovanni Toti2133Markus Barth2234Alonso Medel2335Nguyễn Hải Đăng2436Balázs Pápai2538Uriel Canjura2640Tomás ToledanoReallocation2745Mohamed Mostafa KamelAfrica28146Rukesh MaharjanUniversality Places29186Mateo DelmastroHost Nation30360Chang Ho KimUniversality Places31531Kettiya KeoxayUniversality Places32830Vannthoun VathUniversality Places
Quota spots earned by Russia was returned, and were subsequently reallocated to Spain.
Girls No.RankPlayerNOCNote11Phittayaporn ChaiwanAsia22Wang Zhiyi33Goh Jin Wei44Wei YaxinDid not compete55Jakka Vaishnavi Reddy68Maria DelchevaEurope710Huang Yin-hsuan812Vivien Sándorházi920Tereza Švábíková1021Hirari Mizui1124Fernanda Saponara Rivva1225Grace King1327Nazlıcan İnci1428Jaslyn Hooi1529Léonice Huet1630Jennie GaiAmerica1733Petra Polanc1835Halla BouksaniAfrica1936Vũ Thị Anh Thư2037Elena Andreu2138Vlada Gynga2241Ann-Kathrin Spöri2342Nairoby Abigail JiménezReallocation2443Jaqueline LimaReallocation2544Aswathi PillaiReallocation2647Hasini Nusaka AmbalangodageReallocation2748Maharani Sekar BatariReallocation2853Anastasiia ProzorovaReallocation2954Madouc LindersReallocation3062Zecily FungOceania31258Madeiline Caren Akoumba ZeUniversality Places32494Amina Oluwafunke IloriUniversality Places
Quota spots earned by Denmark, South Korea and Indonesia were returned, and were subsequently reallocated to Dominican Republic, Brazil and Sweden. One universality spot was also not used and this was reallocated to the next eligible nation in the world rankings: Sri Lanka. Later the quota place for Russia, the host spot, and another universality spot were returned and reallocated to Indonesia, Ukraine, and the Netherlands respectively. Eventually there were 31 participants, Wei Yaxin from China did not compete.
Medal summary
Medal table
Events Boys' singles Girls' singles Mixed teams Alpha Omega Theta
References
External links Official Results Book – Badminton