2021 in Review: Tokyo Olympics by Numbers

2021 in Review: Tokyo Olympics by Numbers

The badminton action and stories at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will stay in the memories of the players and fans forever.

So will these extraordinary numbers from the historic event which took place between 24 July and 2 August.

3,991 – Most points in a single discipline – women’s singles.

3,014 – Total number of shuttles used, 895 in men’s singles alone.

395 – Number of times the Instant Review System was called into action, with men’s singles players challenging the most – 112.

293 – Most points won by a pair of player – Wang Yi Lyu and Huang Dong Ping en route to their mixed doubles gold.

Huang and Wang went the distance in a few matches.

208 – Matches played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza throughout the 10 days of competition.

172 – Number of players who participated at this edition.

121 – Most number of games in one discipline, women’s singles.

101 – Longest rally, which came in Game 3 of the women’s doubles quarterfinal between eventual winners Greysia Polii/Apriyani Rahayu and their Chinese opponents Du Yue/Li Yin Hui.

Women’s singles champion Chen Yu Fei falls in celebration after defeating Tai Tzu Ying.

100 – Minutes it took to complete the longest match, the same duel as above.

49 – National Olympic Committees (NOC) represented.

38 – Age of the oldest player – Tien Minh Nguyen, who featured at his fourth consecutive Olympics.

33 – Age of the oldest gold medallist – Polii, who was just nine days short of her 34th birthday when she won the women’s doubles final.

Nguyen also featured at the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2021.

19 – Age of youngest competitor – An Seyoung.

14 – Players in the biggest contingent, which belonged to China.

8 – NOCs that medalled – China, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Denmark, India, Japan, Malaysia and Korea.

6 – Most medals won by any NOC – China (two gold and four silver).

Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin after winning Chinese Taipei’s first ever Olympic gold.

5 – First-time gold medallists. The last time this happened was at Atlanta 96.

4 – First-time nations – Azerbaijan, Malta, Myanmar and Pakistan.

3 – Chen Long’s Olympic medals after winning silver. He also has a gold (Rio 2016) and a bronze (London 2012), which makes him only the second player after Gil Young Ah to have a complete set.

1 – New NOC to medal – Chinese Taipei, who won men’s doubles gold and women’s singles silver.

Myanmar’s Thet Htar Thuzar in action in Tokyo.

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