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Introduction
Badminton was first introduced as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1992 Barcelona games, where it started with athletes competing across 4 disciplines: Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles and Women’s Doubles.
In the 1996 Atlanta games, a 5th discipline of Mixed Doubles was added to the sport.
A total of 69 nations have competed in the sport of badminton at the Olympic games. Find below a summary of the results broken into the following categories:
- Olympic Medal Winners by Discipline
- Total Medals Won by Nation
- Olympic Medal Count Breakdown by Discipline and Nation
- Total Medals Won by Nation per Olympic Games
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Olympic Medal Winners by Discipline
The following tables display the winner of each medal type across each of the 5 disciplines contested in badminton during the Summer Olympic Games.
Men’s Singles
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
2016 Rio | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2012 London | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2008 Beijing | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2004 Athens | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2000 Sydney | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1996 Atlanta | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1992 Barcelona | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Women’s Singles
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
2016 Rio | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2012 London | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2008 Beijing | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2004 Athens | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2000 Sydney | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1996 Atlanta | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1992 Barcelona | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Men’s Doubles
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
2016 Rio | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2012 London | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2008 Beijing | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2004 Athens | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2000 Sydney | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1996 Atlanta | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1992 Barcelona | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Women’s Doubles
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
2016 Rio | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2012 London | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2008 Beijing | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2004 Athens | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2000 Sydney | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1996 Atlanta | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1992 Barcelona | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mixed Doubles
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
2016 Rio | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2012 London | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2008 Beijing | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2004 Athens | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
2000 Sydney | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1996 Atlanta | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Note: The 1992 Barcelona Olympic games only included 4 disciplines for contention for the sport of badminton – Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles and Women’s Doubles. Mixed Doubles was not only introduced during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games.
Total Medals Won by Nation
The following table displays the total number of Olympic medals won by each nation through the duration in which badminton was recognized as an Olympic sport. The table is sorted in descending order from the most number of gold medals, then silver medals, then bronze medals
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 18 | 8 | 15 | 41 |
![]() | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
![]() | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Olympic Medal Count Breakdown by Discipline and Nation
The following tables displays a breakdown of the Olympic medals won by each nation across each of the 5 disciplines that are part of the badminton sport in the Olympic games. The table is sorted in descending order from the most number of gold medals, then silver medals, then bronze medals
Men’s Singles
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Women’s Singles
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Men’s Doubles
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
![]() | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Women’s Doubles
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mixed Doubles
Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Total Medals Won by Nation per Olympic Games
The following table displays the total number of medals won by a nation in each of the Olympic games for which Badminton was a contested sport. The table is sorted in descending order based on total medals won, regardless of medal type.
Nation | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | Total |
![]() | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 41 |
![]() | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
![]() | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |

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