# Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Badminton was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the fifteenth staging of badminton at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically.
The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across six events.

## Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:
| G | Preliminary matches (group) | P | Preliminary matches (knockout) | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| DateEvent | Fri 29 | Fri 29 | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sat 30 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 |
| Session → | M | A | E | M | A | E | A | E | A | E | A | E | M | E | M | E | A | E | A | E | M | E | M |
| Men's singles | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
| Men's doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | P | | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
| Women's singles | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | | ½ | B | F |
| Women's doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | | | | P | P | | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
| Mixed doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | | ½ | B | F |
| Mixed team | G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | ½ | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Venue

The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports – boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting – also took place there.

## Qualification (mixed team)

All nations were able to enter whoever they wish (up to five men and five women overall) in the singles and doubles events.
In addition, sixteen nations were also entitled to contest the mixed team event; subject to at least four CGF regions being represented and a minimum entry of two men / two women per team, they qualify as follows:
* The host nation.
* The top 14 nations in the BWF World Ranking as of 1 February 2022, excluding the host nation. Their highest-ranked players in each of the five individual rankings are added together to determine the combined ranking.
* One nation not already qualified receives a CGF/BWF Bipartite Invitation.
| Means of qualification | Date | Quotas | Qualified |
| Host nation | — | 1 | England |
| BWF World Ranking | 1 February 2022 | 14 | India Malaysia Canada Singapore Scotland Australia Nigeria New Zealand Sri Lanka Mauritius South Africa Maldives Uganda Jamaica Barbados Zambia |
| Bipartite invitation | 8 March 2022 | 1 | Pakistan |
| TOTAL | | 16 | |

### Note

* 1 2 Quota place declined and reallocated to next team in the rankings.
In contrast to other sports with a qualifying system, all badminton player selections came from their nations' open allocation quotas regardless of mixed team qualification.

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (England)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | India | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Singapore | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | England* | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Lakshya Sen India | Ng Tze Yong Malaysia | Srikanth Kidambi India |
| Men's doubles details | India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty | England Ben Lane Sean Vendy | Malaysia Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik |
| Women's singles details | P. V. Sindhu India | Michelle Li Canada | Yeo Jia Min Singapore |
| Women's doubles details | Malaysia Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan | England Chloe Birch Lauren Smith | India Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand |
| Mixed doubles details | Singapore Terry Hee Tan Wei Han | England Marcus Ellis Lauren Smith | Malaysia Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing |
| Mixed team details | Malaysia Ng Tze Yong Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik Goh Jin Wei Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan Chan Peng Soon Cheah Yee See Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing | India Lakshya Sen Srikanth Kidambi B. Sumeeth Reddy Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty P. V. Sindhu Aakarshi Kashyap Gayatri Gopichand Treesa Jolly Ashwini Ponnappa | Singapore Loh Kean Yew Jason Teh Terry Hee Tan Wei Han Loh Kean Hean Andy Kwek Yeo Jia Min Jin Yujia Crystal Wong Nur Insyirah Khan |

## Participating nations

There were 29 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in badminton with a total of 151 (78 men and 73 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.
* Australia (10)
* Barbados (4)
* Cameroon (2)
* Canada (8)
* Cyprus (2)
* England (10)
* Falkland Islands (9)
* Guernsey (4)
* Ghana (5)
* Guyana (2)
* India (10)
* Isle of Man (1)
* Jamaica (4)
* Kenya (2)
* Malaysia (10)
* Maldives (6)
* Malta (2)
* Mauritius (8)
* New Zealand (2)
* Northern Ireland (1)
* Pakistan (4)
* Saint Helena (1)
* Scotland (9)
* Sierra Leone (2)
* Singapore (10)
* South Africa (5)
* Sri Lanka (6)
* Uganda (8)
* Zambia (4)