The men's doubles badminton tournament at the 2023 European Games was played from 26 June to 1 July 2023 in Arena Jaskółka, Tarnów. A total of 32 players in 16 pairs competed at the tournament, four of which pairs was seeded.

Competition format The tournament starts with a group phase round-robin which will eliminate 8 pairs, followed by a single-elimination knockout stage. For the group stage, the players are divided into four groups of four. Each group plays a round-robin. The top two pairs in each group advanced to the knockout rounds. The knockout stage is a three-round single elimination tournament without a bronze medal match.

Matches are played best-of-three games. Each game is played to 21, except that a player must win by 2 unless the score reaches 30–29.

Seeding

The following pairs were seeded

Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (Gold medalists) Ben Lane / Sean Vendy (Silver medalists) Mark Lamsfuß / Marvin Seidel (Quarter-finals) Alexander Dunn / Adam Hall (Bronze medalists)

Competition schedule GS Group stageR16 Round of 16¼ Quarterfinals½ SemifinalsF Final Events Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 1 Sun 2Men's doubles GS GS GS ¼ ½ F

Pool Stage

Group A

Date Score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 26 June Ruben Jille Ties van der Lecq 2–0 Davíð Bjarni Björnsson Kristófer Darri Finnsson 21–7 21–14 26 June Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 2–0 Torjus Flåtten Vegard Rikheim 21–10 21–8 27 June Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 2–0 Davíð Bjarni Björnsson Kristófer Darri Finnsson 21–9 21–9 27 June Ruben Jille Ties van der Lecq 2–0 Torjus Flåtten Vegard Rikheim 21–17 21–10 28 June Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 2–0 Ruben Jille Ties van der Lecq 21–9 21–10 28 June Davíð Bjarni Björnsson Kristófer Darri Finnsson 1–2 Torjus Flåtten Vegard Rikheim 21–18 14–2113–21

Group B

Date Score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 26 June Ben Lane Sean Vendy 2–0 Ade Resky Dwicahyo Azmy Qowimuramadhoni 21–8 21–10 26 June Giovanni Greco David Salutt 0–2 Joshua Magee Paul Reynolds 17–21 12–21 27 June Giovanni Greco David Salutt 2–1 Ade Resky Dwicahyo Azmy Qowimuramadhoni 21–17 17–21 21–17 27 June Ben Lane Sean Vendy 2–0 Joshua Magee Paul Reynolds 21–15 21–15 28 June Joshua Magee Paul Reynolds 1–2 Ade Resky Dwicahyo Azmy Qowimuramadhoni 21–19 14–2116–21 28 June Ben Lane Sean Vendy 2–0 Giovanni Greco David Salutt 21–10 21–16

Group C

Date Score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 26 June Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 2–0 Joel Hansson Melker Z-Bexell 21–16 21–18 26 June Glib Beketov Mykhaylo Makhnovskiy 0–2 Ivan Rusev Iliyan Stoynov 9–21 12–21 27 June Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 2–1 Ivan Rusev Iliyan Stoynov 21–17 18–21 21–8 27 June Glib Beketov Mykhaylo Makhnovskiy 0–2 Joel Hansson Melker Z-Bexell 10–21 11–21 28 June Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 2–0 Glib Beketov Mykhaylo Makhnovskiy 21–7 21–9 28 June Ivan Rusev Iliyan Stoynov 0–2 Joel Hansson Melker Z-Bexell 12–21 17–21

Group D

Date Score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 26 June Miłosz Bochat Robert Cybulski 1–2 Christo Popov Toma Junior Popov 13–21 21–16 14–21 26 June Alexander Dunn Adam Hall 2–0 Ondřej Král Adam Mendrek 21–7 21–14 27 June Alexander Dunn Adam Hall 2–0 Christo Popov Toma Junior Popov 21–13 21–16 27 June Miłosz Bochat Robert Cybulski 0–2 Ondřej Král Adam Mendrek 16–21 18–21 28 June Christo Popov Toma Junior Popov 2–0 Ondřej Král Adam Mendrek 21–12 21–15 28 June Alexander Dunn Adam Hall 1–2 Miłosz Bochat Robert Cybulski 21–11 22–2419–21

Knockout stage

The 8 surviving pairs will be drawn in a single elimination tournament, with group winners paired in the quarter final with runners up from other groups. There will be no bronze medal match, and both losing semi-finalists will win a bronze medal.

References

External links Badminton - schedule & results: men's doubles at european-games.org MD knockout stage draw at bwf.tournamentsoftware.com