The mixed doubles
badminton tournament at the
2023 European Games
The 3rd European Games ( pl, III Igrzyska Europejskie, Igrzyska Europejskie 2023), informally known as Kraków-Małopolska 2023, is a scheduled international sporting event to be held in Kraków and Małopolska, Poland in 2023. All Olympic sports h ...
was played from 26 June to 2 July 2023 in
Arena Jaskółka,
Tarnów.
A total of 32 players in 16 pairs competed at the tournament, four of which pairs was seeded.
Reigning champions,
Marcus Ellis and
Lauren Smith of Great Britain return to defend their titles.
Competition format
The tournament starts with a group phase
round-robin which will eliminate 8 pairs, followed by a single-elimination knockout stage. For the group stage, the pairs are divided into four groups of four. Each group plays a round-robin. The top two pairs in each group advanced to the knockout rounds. The knockout stage is a three-round single elimination tournament without a bronze medal match.
Matches are played best-of-three games. Each game is played to 21, except that a player must win by 2 unless the score reaches 30–29.
Seeding
The following pairs were seeded:
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Thom Gicquel
Thom Mark Gicquel (born 12 January 1999) is a French badminton player. Born in Tours, he started playing badminton at aged six in his parents club. Gicquel made his debut in the international senior tournament at the 2015 Riga International in La ...
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Delphine Delrue
Delphine Aurore Delrue (born 6 November 1998) is a French badminton player. Delrue started playing badminton at aged seven, and she affiliate with the USEE Badminton club in 2006. Delrue was selected to join the national team in INSEP in 2016. In ...
(Silver medalists)
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Robin Tabeling
Robin Tabeling (born 24 April 1994) is a Dutch badminton player, specializing in doubles play. He started playing badminton in Amstelveen at a club called BV van Zijderveld. He won a silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships in the ...
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Selena Piek (Gold medalists)
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Mathias Christiansen /
Alexandra Bøje (Bronze medalists)
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Mark Lamsfuß /
Isabel Lohau
Isabel Lohau (''née'' Herttrich; born 17 March 1992) is a German badminton player, specializing in doubles play. She started playing badminton at her hometown Hersbruck in 2001, and in 2010 she joined the Germany national badminton team. She al ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
Competition schedule
Play will take place between 26 June and 2 July.
Pool Stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
The 8 surviving pairs will be drawn in a single elimination tournament, with group winners paired in the quarter final with runners up from other groups.
There will be no bronze medal match, and both losing semi-finalists will win a bronze medal.
References
External links
Badminton - schedule & results: mixed doublesat european-games.org
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Mixed doubles
Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...