Badminton - Olympic Medal Winners

Badminton was first played at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games as a medal sport. Before that it had been displayed as an exhibition sport at the 1972 Munich Olympic games and the 1988 Seoul Olympic games.

The first time in 1992, Bronze medals were awarded to each of the losing semi-finalists without having a playoff match. Also mixed doubles event was not there in 1992 games. From the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games, mixed doubles was added, and playoff for determining single bronze medal winner was started.

Medal winners at all the Badminton events at all the Olympics held so far is given in the table below:

1992 Olympics (Barcelona Summer Olympic Games – held at Spain)
Badminton Event	Player name	Country	Medal won
Women’s singles	Susi Susanti Haditono	Indonesia	Gold
	Soo-Hyun Bang	Korea	Silver
	Hua Huang	China	Bronze
	Jiuhong Tang	China	Bronze
Men’s Singles	Alan Budi Kusuma Wiratama	Indonesia	Gold
	Ardy Wiranata	Indonesia	Silver
	Hermanwan Susanto	Indonesia	Bronze
	Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen	Denmark	Bronze
Women’s Doubles	So-Young Chung Hae-Young Hwang	Korea	Gold
	Weizhen Guan Qunhua Nong	China	Silver
	Fen Yao Yanfen Lin	China	Bronze
	Eun-Jung Shim Young-Ah Gil	Korea	Bronze
Men’s Doubles	Moon-Soo Kim Joo-Bong Park	Korea	Gold
	Rudy Gunawan Eddy Hartono	Indonesia	Silver
	Yongbo Li Bingyi Tian	China	Bronze
	Mohamad Jalani Sidek Mohamad Razif Sidek	Malaysia	Bronze
1996 Olympics (Atlanta Summer Olympic Games – held at United States)
Badminton Event	Player name	Country	Medal won
Women’s Singles	Soo-Hyun Bang	Korea	Gold
	Mia Audina	Indonesia	Silver
	Susi Susanti	Indonesia	Bronze
Men’s Singles	Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen	Denmark	Gold
	Jiong Dong	China	Silver
	Rashid Sidek	Malaysia	Bronze
Women’s Doubles	Jun Gu Fei Ge	China	Gold
	Young-Ah Gil Hye-Ock Jang	Korea	Silver
	Yongshu Tang Yiyuan Qin	China	Bronze
Men’s Doubles	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Indonesia	Gold
	Soon Kit Cheah Kim Hock Yap	Malaysia	Silver
	Denny Kantono Antonius	Indonesia	Bronze
Mixed Doubles	Dong-Moon Kim Young-Ah Gil	Korea	Gold
	Joo-Bong Park Kyung-Min Ra	Korea	Silver
	Jianjun Liu Man Sun	China	Bronze
2000 Olympics (Sydney Olympic Games – held at Australia)
Badminton Event	Player name	Country	Medal won
Women’s Singles	Zhichao Gong	China	Gold
	Camilla Martin	Denmark	Silver
	Zhaoying Ye	China	Bronze
Men’s Singles	Xinpeng Ji	China	Gold
	Hendrawan	Indonesia	Silver
	Xuanze Xia	Bronze	China
Women’s Doubles	Jun Gu Fei Ge	China	Gold
	Nanyan Huang Wei Yang	China	Silver
	Ling Gao Yiyuan Qin	China	Bronze
Men’s Doubles	Tony Gunawan Candra Wijaya	Indonesia	Gold
	Dong-Soo Lee Yong-Sung Yoo	Korea	Silver
	Tae-Kwon Ha Dong-Moon Kim	Korea	Bronze
Mixed Doubles	Jun Zhang Ling Gao	China	Gold
	Tri Kusharyanto Minarti Timur	Indonesia	Silver
	Simon Archer Joanne Goode	Great Britain	Bronze
2004 Olympics (Athens Olympic Games – held at Greece)
Badminton Event	Player name	Country	Medal won
Women's Singles	Ning Zhang	China	Gold
	Mia Audina	NED	Silver
	Mi Zhou	China	Bronze
Men’s Singles	Taufik Hidayat	Indonesia	Gold
	Seung-Mo Shon	Korea	Silver
	Soni Dwi Kuncoro	Indonesia	Bronze
Women’s Doubles	Jiewen Zhang Wei Yang	China	Gold
	Sui Huang Ling Gao	China	Silver
	Kyung-Min Ra Kyung-Won Lee	Korea	Bronze
Men’s Doubles	Dong-Moon Kim Tae-Kwon Ha	Korea	Gold
	Yong-Sung Yoo Dong-Soo Lee	Korea	Silver
	Eng Hian Flandy Limpele	Indonesia	Bronze
Mixed Doubles	Ling Gao Jun Zhang	China	Gold
	Gail Emms Nathan Robertson	Great Britain	Silver
	Jens Eriksen Mette Schjoldager	Denmark	Bronze
2008 Olympics (Beijing Olympic Games - held at China)
Badminton Event	Player name	Country	Medal won
Women's Singles	Zhang Ning	China	Gold
	Xie Xingfang	China	Silver
	Maria KristinYulianti	Indonesia	Bronze
Men’s Singles	Lin Dan	China	Gold
	Lee ChongWei	Malaysia	Silver
	Chen Jin	China	Bronze
Women’s Doubles	Du Jing Yu Yang	China	Gold
	Lee Hyojung Lee KyungWon	Korea	Silver
	Zhang Yawen Wei Yili	China	Bronze
Men’s Doubles	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Indonesia	Gold
	Fu Haifeng Cai Yun	China	Silver
	Lee Jaejin Hwang Jiman	Korea	Bronze
Mixed Doubles	Lee Hyojung Lee Yongdae	Korea	Gold
	Nova Widianto Liliyana	Indonesia	Silver
	He Hanbin Yu Yang	China	Bronze

China has won the maximum number of badminton medals at the Olympics, and is followed by Korea, Indonesia and Denmark.

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