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Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

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Qualification for badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics begins on 1 January 2019 to 16 May 2021. There are 90 expected slots (46 male, 44 female) for the sport across fourteen medal events.

Timeline

Eligible athletes have to gain points to qualify to compete at the Games. The list will be published on 20 May 2021. This table shows the timeline of championships where athletes have to earn points to be able to qualify.

Competition Date Venue
Turkish Para-Badminton International 2019 26–31 March 2019 Turkey Antalya
Dubai Para-Badminton International 2019 2–7 April 2019 United Arab Emirates Dubai
Uganda Para-Badminton International 2019 23–28 April 2019 Uganda Kampala
Canada Para-Badminton International 2019 7–12 May 2019 Canada Ottawa
Irish Para-Badminton International 2019 17–23 June 2019 Republic of Ireland Dublin
2019 BWF Para-Badminton World Championships 20–25 August 2019 Switzerland Basel
Thailand Para-Badminton International 2019 16–22 September 2019 Thailand Bangkok
China Para-Badminton International 2019 23–29 September 2019 China Beijing
Denmark Para-Badminton International 2019 15–20 October 2019 Denmark Odense
Japan Para-Badminton International 2019
(Paralympic Games Test Event)		 11–17 November 2019 Japan Tokyo
Australia Para-Badminton International 2019 19–24 November 2019 Australia Melbourne
Brazil Para-Badminton International 2020 10–16 February 2020 Brazil São Paulo
Dubai Para-Badminton International 2021 30 March–4 April 2021 United Arab Emirates Dubai
Spanish Para-Badminton International 2021 11–16 May 2021 Spain Cartagena

Qualification

The qualification slots are allocated to the individual athlete or doubles pair, not to the NPC. The qualification ranking list is regulated by the BWF.

  • An NPC can allocated a maximum of eleven male and ten female qualifications slots (total of 21). Exceptions are only granted via the Bipartite Commission Invitation method.
  • An NPC can enter maximum of two athletes per singles event, except for the following listed events:
    • Men's singles SS6 can only have one allowed to participate.
    • Women's singles SL4 can have a maximum of three female athletes if they are qualified via the Paralympic Doubles Ranking List allocation.
    • Women's singles SU5 can have a maximum of three female athletes if two are qualified either via the Paralympic Doubles ranking list or Mixed Doubles quota allocation and one via the Singles ranking list allocation.
    • Through Bipartite Commission Invitees
  • An NPC can enter one doubles pair per doubles event via the Road to Tokyo Paralympic Doubles Ranking List.
  • Selected athletes have to play in a minimum of three of the listed events in order to be ranked and to qualify for the Games.

Entries into singles event from doubles

  • Both players from WH1 or WH1-WH2 pair that qualifies for the men's or women's doubles events will automatically gain entry into their respective singles events if they wish to do so.
  • All male SL3, SL4, SU5 players who qualify in the mixed doubles event will automatically be able to play in their respective singles events.
  • All female SL4 and SU5 players who qualify in the mixed doubles event will automatically be able to play in their respective singles event unless their NPCs have already reached the maximum entry for the singles event.
  • A minimum of one female player from an SL4 pair that qualifies in the Women's doubles SL3-SU5 event is allowed to play in their respective singles event. However, the decision is made by their NPC. All SU5 player who is also qualified for the women's doubles SL3-SU5 event will automatically gain entry into their respective singles event if they wish to do so. Any SL3 player who is also qualified for the women's doubles SL3-SU5 event or mixed doubles event can be entered into the women's singles SL4 according to BWF rules.

Entry requirements

Singles

Event Minimum entry
Men's singles WH1 8
Men's singles WH2 8
Men's singles SL3 6
Men's singles SL4 6
Men's singles SU5 6
Men's singles SH6 6
Women's singles WH1 8
Women's singles WH2 8
Women's singles SL4 6
Women's singles SU5 6

Doubles

Event Sport class Points Combinations
permitted		 Combinations
not permitted		 Entry numbers
Minimum entry
Men's doubles WH1 & WH2 Maximum: 3 points WH1 + WH2
WH1 + WH1		 WH2 + WH2 6 pairs
Women's doubles
SL3 - SU5 Minimum: 7 points
Maximum: 8 points		 SL3 + SL4
SL3 + SU5
SL4 + SL4		 SL3 + SL3
SL4 + SU5
SU5 + SU5		 6 pairs
Mixed doubles Maximum: 8 points SL3 + SL3
SL3 + SL4
SL3 + SU5
SL4 + SL4		 SL4 + SU5
SU5 + SU5		 6 pairs

Slot allocations

Means of qualification Date WH1 WH2 SL3 SL4 SU5 SS6 Total entries
Paralympic Doubles Ranking List Allocation List publishes:
20 May 2021		 Men's doubles: 6 highest ranked pairs Women's doubles: 6 highest ranked pairs — 16 male
30 female
Women's doubles: 2 highest ranked pairs Mixed doubles: 2 highest ranked pairs —
Paralympic Singles Ranking List Allocation Depends on
Doubles Ranking List		 3 highest ranked males 3 highest ranked males
2 highest ranked females		 5 highest ranked males 17 male
7 female
Bipartite Commission Invitation 16 June 2021 3 males and 3 females 9 males and 4 females 1 male 13 male
7 female
Total 90

Qualification summary

NOC Men Women Mixed Total
Singles Doubles Singles Doubles Doubles Quotas Athletes
WH1 WH2 SL3 SL4 SU5 SH6 WH1
WH2 		WH1 WH2 SL4 SU5 WH1
WH2 		SL3
SU5 		SL3
SU5
 Australia 1 1 2 2
 Brazil 1 1 1
 Canada 1 1 1
 China 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 12 9
 Chinese Taipei 1 1 1
 Denmark 1 1 1
 Egypt 1 1 1
 France 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 6
 Germany 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 9 6
 Great Britain 1 1 2 4 4
 Hong Kong 1 1 2 2
 India 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 9 7
 Indonesia 1 2 2 2 1 1 9 7
 Israel 1 1 1
 Japan (H) 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 16 13
 Malaysia 1 1 2 2
 Netherlands 1 1 1
 Norway 1 1 1
 Peru 1 1 1
 Poland 1 1 1
 Portugal 1 1 1
 RPC 1 1 1
 South Korea 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 9 7
 Switzerland 2 1 3 2
 Thailand 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 11 7
 Turkey 1 1 2 2
 Uganda 1 1 1
 Ukraine 1 1 1
Total: 28 NOCs 9 9 6 8 8 6 6 10 9 13 10 6 6 6 112 90

Qualified players

Race to Tokyo Paralympic Singles Ranking List was published on 20 May 2021.

Singles

Men's singles WH1
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Qu Zimo  China
2 2 Lee Dong-seop  South Korea
3 3 Lee Sam-seop  South Korea
4 5 Thomas Wandschneider  Germany
5 8 Hiroshi Murayama  Japan
6 9 Young-chin Mi  Germany
7 10 Osamu Nagashima  Japan
8 12 David Toupé  France
9 13 Jakarin Homhual  Thailand
Men's singles WH2
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Kim Jung-jun  South Korea
2 2 Chan Ho Yuen  Hong Kong
3 3 Kim Kyung-hoon  South Korea
4 4 Daiki Kajiwara  Japan
5 5 Martin Rooke  Great Britain
6 8 Mai Jianpeng  China
7 12 Thomas Jakobs  France
8 17 Dumnern Junthong  Thailand
9 30 Grant Manzoney  Australia

Men's singles SL3
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Pramod Bhagat  India
2 2 Daniel Bethell  Great Britain
3 3 Manoj Sarkar  India
4 4 Daisuke Fujihara  Japan
5 5 Ukun Rukaendi  Indonesia
6 8 Oleksandr Chyrkov  Ukraine
Men's singles SL4
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Lucas Mazur  France
2 2 Tarun Dhillon  India
3 3 Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj  India
4 4 Fredy Setiawan  Indonesia
5 6 Shin Kyung-hwan  South Korea
6 7 Siripong Teamarrom  Thailand
7 17 Jan-Niklas Pott  Germany
8 – Hary Susanto  Indonesia

Men's singles SU5
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Dheva Anrimusthi  Indonesia
2 2 Cheah Liek Hou  Malaysia
3 3 Suryo Nugroho  Indonesia
4 4 Bartłomiej Mróz  Poland
5 5 Taiyo Imai  Japan
6 6 Meril Loquette  France
7 7 Fang Jen-yu  Chinese Taipei
8 26 Ahmed Eldakrory  Egypt
Men's singles SH6
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Krishna Nagar  India
2 2 Jack Shephard  Great Britain
3 3 Chu Man Kai  Hong Kong
4 4 Krysten Coombs  Great Britain
5 6 Vitor Gonçalves Tavares  Brazil
6 7 Didin Taresoh  Malaysia

Women's singles WH1
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Sarina Satomi  Japan
2 2 Valeska Knoblauch  Germany
3 3 Sujirat Pookkham  Thailand
4 4 Yin Menglu  China
5 5 Karin Suter-Erath  Switzerland
6 6 Zhang Jing  China
7 7 Nina Gorodetzky  Israel
8 8 Kang Jung-kum  South Korea
9 12 Cynthia Mathez  Switzerland
10 17 Elke Rongen  Germany
Women's singles WH2
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Liu Yutong  China
2 2 Xu Tingting  China
3 4 Yuma Yamazaki  Japan
4 5 Amnouy Wetwithan  Thailand
5 6 Rie Ogura  Japan
6 7 Emine Seçkin  Turkey
7 8 Pilar Jáuregui  Peru
8 9 Tatiana Gureeva  RPC
9 10 Lee Sun-ae  South Korea

Women's singles SL4
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Leani Ratri Oktila  Indonesia
2 2 Cheng Hefang  China
3 3 Helle Sofie Sagøy  Norway
4 4 Haruka Fujino  Japan
5 5 Ma Huihui  China
6 6 Khalimatus Sadiyah  Indonesia
7 7 Faustine Noël  France
8 8 Chanida Srinavakul  Thailand
9 10 Katrin Seibert  Germany
10 11 Caitlin Dransfield  Australia
11 14 Olivia Meier  Canada
12 26 Parul Parmar  India
13 – Nipada Saensupa  Thailand
Women's singles SU5
No. QR Athlete Country
1 1 Yang Qiuxia  China
2 2 Ayako Suzuki  Japan
3 3 Cathrine Rosengren  Denmark
4 4 Kaede Kameyama  Japan
5 7 Megan Hollander  Netherlands
6 8 Zehra Bağlar  Turkey
7 9 Beatriz Monteiro  Portugal
8 10 Palak Kohli  India
9 19 Ritah Asiimwe  Uganda
10 – Akiko Sugino  Japan

Doubles

Men's doubles WH1–WH2
No. QR Athlete Classify Country
1 1 Qu Zimo WH1  China
Mai Jianpeng WH2  China
2 2 Lee Dong-seop WH1  South Korea
Kim Jung-jun WH2  South Korea
3 3 Hiroshi Murayama WH1  Japan
Daiki Kajiwara WH2  Japan
4 9 David Toupé WH1  France
Thomas Jakobs WH2  France
4 9 Jakarin Homhual WH1  Thailand
Dumern Junthong WH2  Thailand
6 11 Young-chin Mi WH1  Germany
Thomas Wandschneider WH1  Germany
Women's doubles WH1–WH2
No. QR Athlete Classify Country
1 1 Sarina Satomi WH1  Japan
Yuma Yamazaki WH2  Japan
2 2 Yin Menglu WH1  China
Liu Yutong WH2  China
3 3 Sujirat Pookkham WH1  Thailand
Amnouy Wetwithan WH2  Thailand
4 6 Kang Jung-kum WH1  South Korea
Lee Sun-ae WH2  South Korea
5 7 Cynthia Mathez WH1  Switzerland
Karin Suter-Erath WH1  Switzerland
6 8 Valeska Knoblauch WH1  Germany
Elke Rongen WH1  Germany

Women's doubles SL3–SU5
No. QR Athlete Classify Country
1 1 Cheng Hefang SL4  China
Ma Huihui SL4  China
2 2 Leani Ratri Oktila SL4  Indonesia
Khalimatus Sadiyah SL4  Indonesia
3 3 Noriko Ito SL3  Japan
Ayako Suzuki SU5  Japan
4 4 Nipada Saensupa SL4  Thailand
Chanida Srinavakul SL4  Thailand
5 5 Lénaïg Morin SL4  France
Faustine Noël SL4  France
6 6 Parul Parmar SL3  India
Palak Kohli SU5  India
Mixed doubles SL3–SU5
No. QR Athlete Classify Country
1 1 Hary Susanto SL4  Indonesia
Leani Ratri Oktila SL4  Indonesia
2 2 Lucas Mazur SL4  France
Faustine Noël SL4  France
3 3 Siripog Teamarrom SL4  Thailand
Nipada Saensupa SL4  Thailand
4 4 Jan-Niklas Pott SL4  Germany
Katrin Seibert SL4  Germany
5 7 Daisuke Fujihara SL3  Japan
Akiko Sugino SU5  Japan
6 31 Pramod Bhagat SL3  India
Palak Kohli SU5  India

See also

References

  1. "BWF Para-Badminton 2019 - 2020 Calendar". badmintoneurope.com. 12 October 2019.
  2. "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 7 April 2021.
  3. "Race to Tokyo 2020-Singles-2020 Paralympics" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. "Race to Tokyo 2020-Doubles-2020 Paralympics" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-24. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  5. "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Badminton Competition Entry List" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
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