Date | 25 – 31 July 1996 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Georgia State University Sports Arena, Atlanta, Georgia | |
Participants | 54 from 18 countries | |
Format | Single-elimination tournament. |
Twenty-seven teams started with five given byes into the second round. The two top seeds were the Chinese pair of Ge Fei and Gu Jun, winners of the 1996 All-England title, and Korea’s Gir Yeong-A and Jang Hye-Ok, 1995 World Champions. Gil/Jang were seeded first, but Ge/Gu were world ranked #1, and they dominated the tournament. They won all four of their matches easily, never yielding more than 8 points in any game. In the final they faced Gil/Jang, and crushed them, 15-5, 15-5 in 36 minutes.
Date | 25 July 1996 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to round two. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 25 Jul | Gil / Jang (1) | ![]() | bye | |||
Match #2 | 25 Jul | Matsuo / Sakamoto | ![]() | 15-0, 15-4 | Koleva / Nedyalkova-Boteva | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 25 Jul | Bradbury / Wright (5/8) | ![]() | bye | |||
Match #4 | 25 Jul | Jørgensen / Olsen | ![]() | 15-13, 15-10 | Rybkina / Yakusheva | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 25 Jul | Qin / Tang (3/4) | ![]() | bye | |||
Match #6 | 25 Jul | Finarsih / Tampi | ![]() | 15-9, 15-4 | Cator / Hardy | ![]() | |
Match #7 | 25 Jul | Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8) | ![]() | 15-4, 15-1 | French / Von Heiland | ![]() | |
Match #8 | 25 Jul | Jeong / Park | ![]() | 15-7, 15-6 | Chen / Tsai | ![]() | |
Match #9 | 25 Jul | Coene / van den Heuvel | ![]() | 15-10, 15-5 | Morgan / Muggeridge | ![]() | |
Match #10 | 25 Jul | Chen / Peng (5/8) | ![]() | 15-2, 11-15, 15-1 | Yevtushenko / Nozdran | ![]() | |
Match #11 | 25 Jul | Kim / Kim | ![]() | 15-12, 18-13 | Miyamura / Miyamura | ![]() | |
Match #12 | 25 Jul | Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4) | ![]() | bye | |||
Match #13 | 25 Jul | Jenkins / Robertson | ![]() | 15-7, 15-4 | Deng / Julien | ![]() | |
Match #14 | 25 Jul | Nathanael / Resiana (5/8) | ![]() | 15-6, 15-13 | Bengtsson / Borg | ![]() | |
Match #15 | 25 Jul | Schmidt / Ubben | ![]() | 15-1, 15-2 | de Souza / Jean-Pierre | ![]() | |
Match #16 | 25 Jul | Ge / Gu (2) | ![]() | bye |
Date | 27 July 1996 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 27 Jul | Gil / Jang (1) | ![]() | 15-7, 15-6 | Matsuo / Sakamoto | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 27 Jul | Jørgensen / Olsen | ![]() | 15-4, 15-5 | Bradbury / Wright (5/8) | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 27 Jul | Qin / Tang (3/4) | ![]() | 15-1, 4-15, 15-6 | Finarsih / Tampi | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 27 Jul | Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8) | ![]() | 15-8, 13-15, 15-9 | Jeong / Park | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 27 Jul | Chen / Peng (5/8) | ![]() | 15-8, 15-13 | Coene / van den Heuvel | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 27 Jul | Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4) | ![]() | 15-8, 15-8 | Kim / Kim | ![]() | |
Match #7 | 27 Jul | Nathanael / Resiana (5/8) | ![]() | 15-9, 15-2 | Jenkins / Robertson | ![]() | |
Match #8 | 27 Jul | Ge / Gu (2) | ![]() | 15-3, 15-6 | Schmidt / Ubben | ![]() |
Date | 28 July 1996 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 28 Jul | Gil / Jang (1) | ![]() | 15-9, 15-9 | Jørgensen / Olsen | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 28 Jul | Qin / Tang (3/4) | ![]() | 15-8, 15-3 | Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8) | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 28 Jul | Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4) | ![]() | 15-6, 8-15, 15-5 | Chen / Peng (5/8) | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 28 Jul | Ge / Gu (2) | ![]() | 15-7, 15-3 | Nathanael / Resiana (5/8) | ![]() |
Date | 29 July 1996 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the final round. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 29 Jul | Gil / Jang (1) | ![]() | 15-12, 10-15, 18-16 | Qin / Tang (3/4) | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 29 Jul | Ge / Gu (2) | ![]() | 15-8, 15-2 | Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4) | ![]() |
Date | 30 – 31 July 1996 |
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Match | Date/Time | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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Match 1/2 | 31 Jul 9:00 | Ge / Gu (2) | ![]() | 15-5, 15-5 | Gil / Jang (1) | ![]() | |
Match 3/4 | 30 Jul 20:00 | Qin / Tang (3/4) | ![]() | 7-15, 15-4, 15-8 | Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4) | ![]() |