Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Dates 14 – 21 August 2004
Medal Events 5

The 2004 badminton events were quite open, as almost no player or doubles team had won more than one major title since the 2000 Olympics. Two countries reached the medals stages for the first time in Olympic badminton, the Netherlands and Thailand.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Singles, Men Olympic 15 – 21 August 2004 32 21
Doubles, Men Olympic 15 – 20 August 2004 44 14
Singles, Women Olympic 14 – 19 August 2004 32 21
Doubles, Women Olympic 16 – 21 August 2004 46 16
Doubles, Mixed Olympic 14 – 19 August 2004 46 17
172 (89/83) 32 (29/25)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Singles, Men Taufik HidayatINA Son Seung-MoKOR Sony Dwi KuncoroINA
Doubles, Men Republic of Korea 2KOR Republic of KoreaKOR Indonesia 1INA
Singles, Women Zhang NingCHN Mia AudinaNED Zhou MiCHN
Doubles, Women People's Republic of China 1CHN People's Republic of ChinaCHN Republic of Korea 1KOR
Doubles, Mixed People's Republic of China 2CHN Great Britain 1GBR Denmark 2DEN

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 3 1 1 5
Republic of Korea KOR 1 2 1 4
Indonesia INA 1 0 2 3
Great Britain GBR 0 1 0 1
Netherlands NED 0 1 0 1
Denmark DEN 0 0 1 1