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Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles

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Badminton women's doubles
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueWembley Arena
Date28 July to 4 August 2012
Competitors32 from 13 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tian Qing
Zhao Yunlei		  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mizuki Fujii
Reika Kakiiwa		  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Valeria Sorokina
Nina Vislova		  Russia

The badminton women's doubles tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place from 28 July to 4 August at Wembley Arena.

The draw for the tournament was made on 23 July 2012.[1][2] Thirty-two players from 13 nations competed in the event.

China's Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei defeated Japan's Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa 21–10, 25–23, to win the gold medal in women's doubles badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3] Zhao became the first badminton player to win two Olympic gold medals at the same Olympics, having also won the mixed doubles event with Zhang Nan.[4] In the bronze-medal match, Russia's Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova defeated Alexandra Bruce and Michelle Li of Canada, 21–9, 21–10, to win Russia's first Olympic medal in badminton.[4]

Chinese pair Du Jing and Yu Yang were the defending Olympic champions, but Du chose not to participate due to injury.[5] Yu partnered with Wang Xiaoli, but the pair and six other players[a] were disqualified from the event due to a match throwing scandal.[6][7][8][9]

Competition format

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The tournament started with a group phase round-robin followed by a knockout stage.[10]

Seeds

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  1.  Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (CHN) (group stage, disqualified)
  2.  Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei (CHN) (gold medalists)
  3.  Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung (KOR) (group stage, disqualified)
  4.  Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) (silver medalists)

Results

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Group stage

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Group A

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Team Pld W L SW SL Pts
 Jung Kyung-eun / Kim Ha-na (KOR)33060DQ
 Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (CHN)32142DQ
 Valeria Sorokina / Nina Vislova (RUS)312241
 Alexandra Bruce / Michelle Li (CAN)303060
Team 1 Score Team 2
28 July, 19:05
 Wang X / Yu Y (CHN) 21–11
21–7		  Bruce / Li (CAN)
29 July, 09:40
 Jung K-e / Kim H-n (KOR) 21–5
21–11		  Bruce / Li (CAN)
29 July, 18:30
 Wang X / Yu Y (CHN) 21–6
21–9		  Sorokina / Vislova (RUS)
30 July, 09:40
 Jung K-e / Kim H-n (KOR) 23–21
21–18		  Sorokina / Vislova (RUS)
31 July, 08:30
 Sorokina / Vislova (RUS) 21–8
21–10		  Bruce / Li (CAN)
31 July, 19:07
 Wang X / Yu Y (CHN) 14–21
11–21		  Jung K-e / Kim H-n (KOR)

Group B

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Team Pld W L SW SL Pts
 Cheng Wen-hsing / Chien Yu-chin (TPE)321532
 Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (JPN)321432
 Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)321432
 Shinta Mulia Sari / Yao Lei (SIN)303260
Team 1 Score Team 2
28 July, 15:20
 Fujii / Kakiiwa (JPN) 21–16
21–18		  Gutta / Ponnappa (IND)
28 July, 20:15
 Cheng W-h / Chien Y-c (TPE) 18–21
21–15
21–15		  Sari / Yao L (SIN)
29 July, 14:17
 Fujii / Kakiiwa (JPN) 16–21
21–10
21–19		  Sari / Yao L (SIN)
30 July, 19:05
 Cheng W-h / Chien Y-c (TPE) 23–25
21–16
18–21		  Gutta / Ponnappa (IND)
31 July, 13:09
 Fujii / Kakiiwa (JPN) 19–21
11–21		  Cheng W-h / Chien Y-c (TPE)
31 July, 18:30
 Sari / Yao L (SIN) 16–21
15–21		  Gutta / Ponnappa (IND)

Group C

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Team Pld W L SW SL Pts
 Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung (KOR)33061DQ
 Meiliana Jauhari / Greysia Polii (INA)32153DQ
 Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran (AUS)312341
 Michelle Edwards / Annari Viljoen (RSA)303060
Team 1 Score Team 2
28 July, 14:17
 Ha J-e / Kim M-j (KOR) 21–8
21–7		  Edwards / Viljoen (RSA)
28 July, 19:42
 Jauhari / Polii (INA) 21–13
20–22
21–11		  Choo / Veeran (AUS)
29 July, 20:52
 Choo / Veeran (AUS) 21–9
21–7		  Edwards / Viljoen (RSA)
30 July, 15:20
 Jauhari / Polii (INA) 21–18
21–10		  Edwards / Viljoen (RSA)
30 July, 19:09
 Ha J-e / Kim M-j (KOR) 21–7
21–19		  Choo / Veeran (AUS)
31 July, 20:19
 Ha J-e / Kim M-j (KOR) 18–21
21–14
21–12		  Jauhari / Polii (INA)

Group D

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Team Pld W L SW SL Pts
 Kamilla Rytter Juhl / Christinna Pedersen (DEN)321532
 Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei (CHN)321422
 Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna (JPN)321432
 Poon Lok Yan / Tse Ying Suet (HKG)303160
Team 1 Score Team 2
28 July, 09:07
 Juhl / Pedersen (DEN) 21–18
14–21
17–21		  Maeda / Suetsuna (JPN)
28 July, 09:44
 Tian Q / Zhao Y (CHN) 21–11
21–12		  Poon / Tse (HKG)
29 July, 09:44
 Juhl / Pedersen (DEN) 21–13
14–21
21–18		  Poon / Tse (HKG)
30 July, 09:44
 Tian Q / Zhao Y (CHN) 21–16
21–17		  Maeda / Suetsuna (JPN)
31 July, 09:40
 Tian Q / Zhao Y (CHN) 20–22
12–21		  Juhl / Pedersen (DEN)
31 July, 14:15
 Maeda / Suetsuna (JPN) 21–15
21–19		  Poon / Tse (HKG)

Finals

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Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
               
A1  Valeria Sorokina (RUS)
 Nina Vislova (RUS) 		21 21  
C2  Michelle Edwards (RSA)
 Annari Viljoen (RSA) 		9 7  
A1  Valeria Sorokina (RUS)
 Nina Vislova (RUS) 		19 6  
D2  Tian Qing (CHN)
 Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 		21 21  
B1  Cheng Wen-hsing (TPE)
 Chien Yu-chin (TPE) 		10 14  
D2  Tian Qing (CHN)
 Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 		21 21  
D2  Tian Qing (CHN)
 Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 		21 25  
B2  Mizuki Fujii (JPN)
 Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 		10 23  
A2  Alex Bruce (CAN)
 Michelle Li (CAN) 		21 18 21
C1  Leanne Choo (AUS)
 Renuga Veeran (AUS) 		9 21 18
A2  Alex Bruce (CAN)
 Michelle Li (CAN) 		12 21 13 Bronze-medal match
B2  Mizuki Fujii (JPN)
 Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 		21 19 21
B2  Mizuki Fujii (JPN)
 Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 		22 21   A1  Valeria Sorokina (RUS)
 Nina Vislova (RUS) 		21 21  
D1  Christinna Pedersen (DEN)
 Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) 		20 10   A2  Alex Bruce (CAN)
 Michelle Li (CAN) 		9 10  

Group stage disqualifications

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A review into two matches in the badminton women's doubles competition played on 31 July was conducted after it appeared that, having already qualified for the knockout stages, players on both sides in each match had been attempting to lose their last group stage matches in order to gain a more favourable draw in the quarter-finals.[6][11]

The matches in question were between China's Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang and South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun / Kim Ha-na in Group A, and South Korea's Ha Jung-eun / Kim Min-jung versus Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari / Greysia Polii in Group C. After errors began occurring during routine shots in both matches, including shots going long and serves hitting the net, the crowd reacted angrily,[8][12] and the first game in the match between Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli of China and Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na of South Korea featured no rallies of more than four shots.[13]

South Korean head coach Sung Han-kook said his pairs had emulated the Chinese tactics so as to avoid playing against another South Korean team in the knockout stages before the final: "Because they don't want to play the semi-final against each other, so we did the same. We didn't want to play the South Korean team again".[14][11]

In the second match, the tournament referee, Torsten Berg, initially issued a black card to disqualify the players, but this was rescinded after the teams' coaches and officials came onto the court and remonstrated with him.[7][14] Play was allowed to continue while he monitored proceedings, and both the earlier match and this later match were ultimately played to a conclusion, completing the draw for the quarter-finals (groups B and D having concluded earlier in the day).[7]

Technical delegate Paisan Rangsikitpho said after the Group A match, "If it's true what I hear, this is a shame and I don't like it. And I'm not going to accept anything that I don't like at all. It's not in a good spirit....I apologise to the public, I apologise for everyone and I am not happy."[15]

On 1 August 2012, following a Badminton World Federation review, all eight players were found guilty of "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" and were ejected from the tournament.[8][14] The quarter-finals then continued with the ejected teams being replaced by the other teams from their groups.[7]

The decision was highly debated; some argued that while the teams had not been performing their best effort to win the game at hand, they had been in fact doing their best to win the tournament, and that conserving resources in early matches is a common practice in every competitive sport.[16][17][18]

To prevent any repeat of these events, the competition format for the next Olympics was changed: all pairs finishing second in their groups would be placed into another draw to determine who they faced in the quarter-finals, while the top pair in each group would have a fixed position matched to its designated seed in the knockout phase.[19]

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ "Draw announced for Olympic Badminton competition". london2012.com. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "LIVE DRAW: London 2012 Olympic Games". bwfbadminton.org. 23 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "China buries badminton scandal with golds". Yahoo! News. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 "London 2012: Day 8 – Women's Doubles: Double Take for Zhao Yunlei". BWF. 4 August 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Alexis Lai (2 August 2012). "Olympic badminton scandal claims China's rising star". CNN. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  6. 1 2 Peter Walker; Haroon Siddique (1 August 2012). "Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Players banned for throwing matches". ESPN. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 "Olympics badminton: Eight women disqualified from doubles". BBC Sport. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  9. ↑ Richard Allen Greene (1 August 2012). "Olympic badminton players disqualified for trying to lose". CNN. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "Women's doubles competition format". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  11. 1 2 "London 2012 Olympics: Badminton players charged with misconduct after appearing to try to lose their games". The Daily Telegraph. 1 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "Controversy erupts in 2012 badminton clash". ESPN.
  13. ↑ "Olympics: Badminton players charged over 'thrown' matches". Channel NewsAsia.
  14. 1 2 3 "Reports: Eight Badminton Players Tossed Out of Olympics". NPR. 31 July 2012.
  15. ↑ Ransom, Ian (31 July 2012). "Match fixing causes badminton chaos". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  16. ↑ "Badminton scandal: Is it always wrong to lose on purpose?". The Seattle Times. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "Mikortól csalás a taktika?" [When do tactics become cheating?]. Index (in Hungarian). Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  18. ↑ "The Goal Is Winning Gold, Not Winning Every Match". The New York Times. 2 August 2012.
  19. ↑ "Badminton scandal prompts rule change". Al Jazeera English. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
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