Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Dates 16 – 23 September 2000
Medal Events 5

The events were the same as in 1996 – men’s and women’s singles and doubles, with mixed doubles. The tournaments were again single elimination with seeded players/teams advanced to the second round, but in 2000, the fields were smaller with most of the first rounds consisting of only a few matches.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Singles, Men Olympic 17 – 23 September 2000 35 22
Doubles, Men Olympic 16 – 21 September 2000 44 15
Singles, Women Olympic 16 – 22 September 2000 40 23
Doubles, Women Olympic 18 – 23 September 2000 52 17
Doubles, Mixed Olympic 16 – 21 September 2000 54 14
171 (86/85) 28 (25/24)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Singles, Men Ji XinpengCHN HendrawanINA Xia XuanzeCHN
Doubles, Men IndonesiaINA Republic of Korea 1KOR Republic of Korea 2KOR
Singles, Women Gong ZhichaoCHN Camilla MartinDEN Ye ZhaoyingCHN
Doubles, Women People's Republic of China 2CHN People's Republic of ChinaCHN People's Republic of China 1CHN
Doubles, Mixed People's Republic of China 2CHN Indonesia 1INA Great Britain 2GBR

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 4 1 3 8
Indonesia INA 1 2 0 3
Republic of Korea KOR 0 1 1 2
Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1