Badminton has been a medal sport at the Olympic Games since its debut at Barcelona 1992 and has since featured at every edition, including London 2012, Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2020. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games—the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad—will mark badminton’s ninth appearance on the Summer Olympic programme, continuing its longstanding presence in the Olympic movement.

Looking ahead, the next edition of the Olympic Games will take place in Los Angeles in 2028, where badminton will once again feature as part of the Summer Olympic programme.

The BWF Olympic Badminton website has more information on the history of the Games, Olympic badminton / Para badminton news and results from previous Olympic Games badminton competitions.

Badminton and the Olympic Games

After being a demonstration sport at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, badminton was accepted as an Olympic sport at the IOC Session in East Berlin on 5th June 1985. Badminton was a demonstration sport at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games where thirty players from nine countries competed in the five events.

Badminton made its debut as an official sport at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games where four medal events were hosted – men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles. At the Atlanta 1996, mixed doubles was included as a medal event. Barcelona 1992 made history for badminton.

It was the first time the sport was a medal event and for Indonesia, these first Games for badminton provided two Olympic Champions when Susi Susanti from Indonesia won the first gold medal for badminton and two hours later, her fiancée Alan Budi Kusuma won the second Olympic gold medal for Indonesia in the men’s singles.

Indonesia had waited 40 years for their first Olympic Champion and went away from the Games with two – both from badminton. Indonesia won two golds, two silver and one bronze medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Recent Results, please refer Olympic Badminton Site.