Badminton at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Badminton was an exhibition sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There were five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. Competitions took place at the Seoul National University Gymnasium on September 19, 1988.

Qualification

The competitors were selected according to the results of the 1987 IBF World Championships.

Results

Event	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
Men's singles	Yang Yang	Icuk Sugiarto	Park Sung-hae
Women's singles	Hwang Hye-young	Han Aiping	Sumiko Kitada
Men's doubles	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Lee Sang-bok Lee Kwang-jin	Shuji Matsuno Shinji Matsuura
Women's doubles	Kim Yun-ja Chung So-young	Lin Ying Guan Weizhen	Dorte Kjær Nettie Nielsen
Mixed doubles	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee	Wang Pengren Shi Fangjing	HKG Chan Chi Choi HKG Amy Chan Lim Chee

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	1	1	5
2	China	2	3	0	5
3	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
4	Japan	0	0	2	2
5	Denmark	0	0	1	1
6	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

References

Events at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)

Archery Athletics Badminton (exhibition) Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Bowling (demonstration) Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronised swimming Table tennis Taekwondo (demonstration) Tennis Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Badminton at the Summer Olympics

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