At 10am (London, GMT time) today, the London 2012 Olympic Games badminton live draw will be conducted at the Main Press Center of the Olympic Park in London. Find out how you can follow the Draw Ceremony live here!
We will bring you live update of the draw on this page of our website – simply refresh the page every few minutes to see the boxes populated below! If you are on-the-go, we will also be tweeting the draw results as they come through to us, so follow us on twitter @bwfmedia to join us in this momentous event now!
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The London 2012 Olympic Games badminton event will shuttle off this Saturday, 28 July 2012 at the Wembley Arena. A total of 5 disciplines will be contested – Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, and Mixed Doubles.
Get information of the regulations surrounding the badminton event on our website here. Also check out the IOC’s badminton page here and the London 2012 official page for badminton here. We will over the next few days bring you more information on how you can follow your favourite badminton stars at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Meanwhile, enjoy the excitement of the Draw Ceremony right here!
London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Men’s Singles
(Groups A to H are the draw’s top half, Groups I to P are the draw’s bottom half)
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D |
Group E
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Group F | Group G
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Group H |
Group I | Group J
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Group K | Group L
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Group M | Group N
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Group O | Group P
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London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Women’s Singles
(Groups A to H are the draw’s top half, Groups I to P are the draw’s bottom half)
Group A
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Group B | Group C | Group D |
Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H |
Group I | Group J | Group K | Group L |
Group M | Group N | Group O | Group P
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London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Men’s Doubles
Group A
Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng (1) Fang Chieh Min / Lee Sheng Mu Ross Smith / Glenn Warfe Ingo Kindervater / Johannes Schoettler |
Group B
Ko Sung Hyun / Yoo Yeong Seong (4) Bodin Issara / Maneepong Jongjit Adam Cwalina / Michal Logosz Mohammad Ahsan / Bona Septano |
Group C
Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (3) Chai Biao / Guo Zhendong Dorian Lance James / Willem Viljoen Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov |
Group D
Chung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae (2) Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan Naoki Kawamae / Shoji Sato Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong |
London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Women’s Doubles
Group A
Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (1) Jung Kyung Eun / Kim Ha Na Valeri Sorokina / Nina Vislova Alex Bruce / Michelle Li |
Group B
Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (4) Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa Cheng Wen Hsing / Chien Yu Chin Shinta Sari Mulia / Yao Lei |
Group C
Ha Jung Eun / Kim Min Jung (3) Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran Michelle Edwards / Annari Viljoen Meiliana Juahari / Greysia Polii |
Group D
Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei (2) Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna Christinna Pedersen / Kamila Rytter Juhl Poon Lok Yan / Tse Suet Ying |
London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Mixed Doubles
Group A
Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei (1) Alexandr Nikolaenko / Valeri Sorokina Michael Fuchs / Birgit Michels Chris Adcock / Imogen Bankier |
Group B
Joachim Fischer / Christinna Pedersen (4) Shintaro Ikeda / Shiota Reiko Toby Ng / Grace Gao Robert Mateusiak / Nadiezda Zieba |
Group C
Tontowi Ahmad / Liliyana Natsir (3) Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl Lee Yong Dae / Ha Jung Eun Viju D / Jwala Gutta |
Group D
Xu Chen / Ma Jin (2) S Prapakamol / S Thoungthongkam Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying Chen Hung Ling / Cheng Wan Hsing |
In the singles, only the winner of each group will qualify for the Round of 16: [A vs B, C vs D] [E vs F, G vs H] [I vs J, K vs L] [M vs N, O vs P]. The two winners of the two ties in each [ ] will then face-off in the quarter-finals.
In the doubles, the top two of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. And in the doubles quarter-finals, the top half of the draw will have A1 vs C2 and B1 vs D2, while bottom half of the draw will have A2 vs C1 and B2 vs D1.
N.B Seeds are denoted in the ( ).