# Badminton at the Asian Games

Badminton has been one of the regular Asian Games sports since 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

## History

Badminton made its debut in the Asian Games as a demonstration sport at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, and became a regular competitive sport in 1962. In the 1962 Games, six events were held, with singles, doubles and team event for both men and women. The mixed doubles event was added in 1966 Asian Games. There was a playoff between the two semifinal losers to determine the sole winner of the bronze medal in 1962; but since 1966, two bronze medals per event are awarded in each event (except in 1974).

## Competition

Asian Games badminton consists of a single-elimination tournament. Each match is played to the best of three games, each game is of 21 points. Rally scoring is used, meaning a player does not need to be serving to score. A player must win by two points or be the first player to 30 points.

## Editions

| Games | Year | Host city | Best nation |
| IV | 1962 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Indonesia |
| V | 1966 | Bangkok, Thailand | Indonesia |
| VI | 1970 | Bangkok, Thailand | Japan |
| VII | 1974 | Tehran, Iran | China |
| VIII | 1978 | Bangkok, Thailand | Indonesia |
| IX | 1982 | New Delhi, India | China |
| X | 1986 | Seoul, South Korea | China |
| XI | 1990 | Beijing, China | China |
| XII | 1994 | Hiroshima, Japan | South Korea |
| XIII | 1998 | Bangkok, Thailand | China |
| XIV | 2002 | Busan, South Korea | South Korea |
| XV | 2006 | Doha, Qatar | China |
| XVI | 2010 | Guangzhou, China | China |
| XVII | 2014 | Incheon, South Korea | China |
| XVIII | 2018 | Jakarta–Palembang, Indonesia | China |
| XIX | 2022 | Hangzhou, China | China |
| XX | 2026 | Aichi–Nagoya, Japan | |
| XXI | 2030 | Doha, Qatar | |
| XXII | 2034 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |

## Events

| Event | 62 | 66 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 86 | 90 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 22 | Years |
| Men's singles | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Men's doubles | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Men's team | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Women's singles | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Women's doubles | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Women's team | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 16 |
| Mixed doubles | | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 15 |
| Total | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |

## Participating nations

| Nation | 62 | 66 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 86 | 90 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | Years |
| Afghanistan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Bahrain | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | 1 |
| Cambodia | X | | | | | | | | 3 | 2 | | | | | | 3 |
| China | | | | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 12 |
| Chinese Taipei | | X | | | | | | | 8 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 8 |
| East Timor | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Hong Kong | | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 20 | 14 |
| India | | | | X | X | X | 12 | | | 1 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 10 |
| Indonesia | 10 | X | X | X | X | 12 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 15 |
| Iran | | | | X | | | | | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Iraq | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Japan | X | X | X | X | X | X | 11 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 15 |
| Macau | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 5 |
| Malaysia | 10 | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 15 |
| Maldives | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| Mongolia | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Myanmar | | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Nepal | | X | X | X | X | | 8 | | | | | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| North Korea | | | | X | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Pakistan | | | | X | X | | 2 | 6 | | 2 | | | | 4 | 8 | 7 |
| Philippines | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | 4 | 1 | 2 | | | | 8 |
| Qatar | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 1 |
| Singapore | X | | | | | | | | 3 | | 2 | 12 | 2 | 6 | | 6 |
| South Korea | | X | X | X | X | X | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 14 |
| Sri Lanka | | X | | | | | 1 | 2 | | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | | 6 | 8 |
| Syria | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 4 | | | | 2 |
| Thailand | X | X | X | X | X | X | 5 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 |
| Vietnam | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Number of nations | 7 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 11 | | 11 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 19 | |
| Number of athletes | | | | | | | 98 | 101 | 112 | 132 | 120 | 162 | 190 | 221 | 224 | |

## Winners

| Year | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles | Men's team | Women's team |
| 1962 | Tan Joe Hok | Minarni | Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan | Minarni Retno Kustijah | not conducted | Indonesia | Indonesia |
| 1966 | Ang Tjin Siang | Noriko Takagi | Ng Boon Bee Tan Yee Khan | Minarni Retno Kustijah | Teh Kew San Rosalind Singha Ang | Thailand | Japan |
| 1970 | Punch Gunalan | Hiroe Yuki | Ng Boon Bee Punch Gunalan | Etsuko Takenaka Machiko Aizawa | Ng Boon Bee Sylvia Ng | Indonesia | Japan |
| 1974 | Hou Jiachang | Chen Yuniang | Tjun Tjun Johan Wahjudi | Liang Qiuxia Zheng Huiming | Christian Hadinata Regina Masli | China | China |
| 1978 | Liem Swie King | Liang Qiuxia | Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata | Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguna | Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing | Indonesia | China |
| 1982 | Han Jian | Zhang Ailing | Icuk Sugiarto Christian Hadinata | Hwang Sun-ai Kang Haeng-suk | Christian Hadinata Ivana Lie | China | China |
| 1986 | Zhao Jianhua | Han Aiping | Park Joo-bong Kim Moon-soo | Lin Ying Guan Weizhen | Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee | South Korea | China |
| 1990 | Zhao Jianhua | Tang Jiuhong | Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi | Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua | Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee | China | China |
| 1994 | Hariyanto Arbi | Bang Soo-hyun | Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja | Shim Eun-jung Jang Hye-ock | Yoo Yong-sung Chung So-young | Indonesia | South Korea |
| 1998 | Dong Jiong | Kanako Yonekura | Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja | Ge Fei Gu Jun | Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min | Indonesia | China |
| 2002 | Taufik Hidayat | Zhou Mi | Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung | Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won | Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min | South Korea | China |
| 2006 | Taufik Hidayat | Wang Chen | Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong | Gao Ling Huang Sui | Zheng Bo Gao Ling | China | China |
| 2010 | Lin Dan | Wang Shixian | Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan | Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei | Shin Baek-cheol Lee Hyo-jung | China | China |
| 2014 | Lin Dan | Wang Yihan | Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan | Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Greysia Polii | Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei | South Korea | China |
| 2018 | Jonatan Christie | Tai Tzu-ying | Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong | China | Japan |
| 2022 | Li Shifeng | An Se-young | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong | China | South Korea |

## Performance by nations

| Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD* | MT | WT | Total |
| 1 | China | 8 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 47 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 28 |
| 3 | South Korea | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| 4 | Malaysia | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Japan | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 111 |
Notes: The table above shows number of gold medals won by countries. At the 1962 Asian Games, mixed doubles discipline wasn't conducted, so the number of gold medals aren't equal with others disciplines.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 47 | 32 | 37 | 116 |
| 2 | Indonesia (INA) | 28 | 27 | 44 | 99 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 18 | 19 | 36 | 73 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 7 | 9 | 30 | 46 |
| 5 | Malaysia (MAS) | 7 | 8 | 21 | 36 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 11 | 16 | 28 |
| 7 | India (IND) | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 |
| 8 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 10 | Myanmar (MYA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Singapore (SGP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 111 | 111 | 209 | 431 |