Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 10, 2024: A total of 173 athletes are set to compete in the badminton competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Badminton World Federation announced on Friday.
They will compete for the gold medals in the customary five categories: Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
The figure of 173 is comprised of 166 regular quota places (83 men and 83 women), three universality places from the IOC Tripartite Commission (two men and one woman), IOC Refugee Olympic Team member Dorsa Yavarivafa and three reallocation places: two of them because the French players qualified by ranking rather than host nation quota and one reallocation place from the unused universality place for women..
Spain’s Pablo Abian and Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon have qualified for a record-equalling fifth Olympics, joining Poland’s Robert Mateusiak and Boonsak Ponsana in this exclusive club.
Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand), Michelle Li (Canada), Tai Tzu Ying (Chinese Taipei), Lianne Tan (Belgium), Tse Ying Suet (Hong Kong China) and Misha Zilberman (Israel) will all appear at their fourth Games.
El Salvador, Kazakhstan and Nepal are represented in badminton for the first time thanks to the qualification of Uriel Francisco Canjura Artiga, Dmitriy Panarin and Prince Dahal, all in men’s singles.
Apart from the retired Wang Yilyu (mixed doubles) and Greysia Polii (women’s doubles), all other defending champions from Tokyo 2020 have qualified: Viktor Axelsen (Denmark), Chen Yufei (China) and Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin (Chinese Taipei).
Wang Yilyu’s partner, Huang Dongping (China), returns having finished second in the Race to Paris rankings with new partner Feng Yanzhe, while Polii’s partner Apriyani Rahayu qualified with Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (Indonesia).
