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Badminton At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles
The women's singles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 27 July to 5 August 2024 at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena in Paris. A total of 39 players from 34 nations competed at the tournament. Chinese player Chen Yufei was the defending Olympic champion, but failed to retain the title after she was eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual silver medallist He Bingjiao. Format The 39 players were split into 13 groups of three players each. They played a round-robin tournament with the top-placed player advancing to the knockout stage. Each match was played in a best-of-3. Schedule The schedule was as follows. Draw The draw was held on 12 July 2024. Seeds The top 13 players of the BWF World Ranking were seeded. # (gold medalist) # ''(quarter-finals)'' # ''(group stage)'' # ''(fourth place)'' # ''(quarter-finals)'' # (silver medalist) # (bronze medalist) ''(quarter-finals)'' ''(round of 16)'' ''(round of 16)'' ''(round of 16)'' ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tai Tzu-ying
Tai Tzu-ying (; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. At the age of 22, she achieved world no.1 in the BWF women's singles ranking in December 2016, and has held that title for 214 weeks, the longest in BWF history.See also: Number one ranked players timeline. Tai was the women's singles silver medalist in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2021 BWF World Championships. She was gold medalist in the 2017 Summer Universiade and the 2018 Asian Games. She was the champion of BWF Super Series Finals/ BWF World Tour Finals a record four times (2014, 2016, 2020, 2023). She was thrice the champion of the All England Open (2017, 2018, 2020), and of the Asian Championships (2017, 2018, 2023). Career Tai's career began when she was in elementary school, as she was influenced by her father who was a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city's badminton committee. Tai started playing badminton in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, and in the sixth grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thet Htar Thuzar
Thet Htar Thuzar (; born 15 March 1999) is a Burmese badminton player. She participated at the 2013 SEA Games in her home country Myanmar. She won her first International title at the Egypt International 2018. As of 2019 she had reached eight finals, most of them in the African Badminton Circuit, winning six events (in Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius, Benin, Ivory Coast and again in Egypt). Early life Thet Htar was born in 1999 in Yangon; to parents who are both badminton players which inspired her to make a career in badminton. She first picked up a badminton racket when she was seven years old. Thet Htar was raised briefly in Thailand since her father was serving as a coach there. She juggled sports and studies in Thailand and won third prize in her first competition at the age of seven and later she returned to Myanmar with her family in 2010. Shortly after her return to Myanmar, she was selected to represent the Yangon Region in the Regions and States Tournament and won the best pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Li
Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in both singles and doubles at the Pan American Games and won the singles and team event titles from the Pan American Badminton Championships. As a competitor for Ontario, Li also won singles, doubles, and mixed team titles at the 2011 Canada Winter Games. Early life and education Michelle Li was born in Hong Kong to Chi Keung Li and Agnes Kwong; together with her brother Mark, they moved to Canada in 1997. An active child, she started playing badminton at age 11 with her mom at the local community center. A friend introduced her to her current club, where she began lessons and competing locally in small tournaments. She started competing internationally when she was around 17 years old. Li graduated from Richmond Hill High School (Ontario), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockout Stage
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaloyana Nalbantova
Kaloyana Nalbantova (; born 6 March 2006) is a Bulgarian badminton player. She won the women's singles title at the 2022 European Junior Badminton Championships in Belgrade. She also represented Bulgaria at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Bulgaria in women's singles at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Career In 2022, Kaloyana participated in the 2022 European Junior Badminton Championships and beat Lisa Curtin in the women's singles final 14–21, 21–17, 21–16 to win gold. She then won the Hungarian International by defeating Frederikke Lund in the final. In 2023, Kaloyana reached the final of the Dutch International but lost to Huang Yu-hsun. She also won her second international title by defeating Milena Schnider at the Bulgarian International Championship, Bulgarian International. In 2024, Kaloyana qualified for the women's singles event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Placed into Group A with number 1 seed An Se-young and host representative Qi Xuefei, she first lost to An Se-young 15� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qi Xuefei
Qi Xuefei ( zh, s=齐雪霏, p=; born 28 February 1992) is a Chinese-born French badminton player. As a Nanjing native, Qi came to France to play a few Inter-club matches in Rostrenen in 2014. She married her physiotherapist in 2015, and decided to settle in Rostrenen. She obtained her French nationality in 2018, and at the same year, she entered the women's singles team in INSEP. Qi competed at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Achievements BWF World Tour (1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeo Jia Min
Yeo Jia Min (; born 1 February 1999) is a Singaporean badminton player. She is a former World Junior No.1 and the first Singaporean in either the junior or senior categories to made it to the top of the BWF's ranking system. Early life and education Yeo was born in Singapore. Initially a permanent resident, she became a Singaporean citizen sometime in her childhood. Yeo would begin playing badminton when she was seven years old and had often played with her parents. She subsequently started formal training under the tutelage of former national player Tan Eng Han at the Assumption English School (AES) in Bukit Panjang at the West Region of Singapore. At nine, she competed in the 2008 Cheers Age Group Badminton Championships and won the Under-11 championship title. At age 10, she won the Under-11 singles title at an international level when she represented Singapore at the 2009 Li-Ning Youth International. In 2011, Yeo was selected for the national intermediate squad and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ga-eun (badminton)
Kim Ga-eun (; born 7 February 1998) is a South Korean badminton player. She competed and at the Summer Youth Olympics in 2014, in Nanjing, China, and in 2016, Kim was selected to join the Korean national team. She also competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Achievements BWF World Junior Championships ''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Girls' singles'' BWF World Tour (4 titles, 3 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (2 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supanida Katethong
Supanida Katethong (; born 26 October 1997) is a Thai badminton player. She won the gold medal in the women's singles at the 2023 SEA Games, and also part of Thai winning team at the Games in 2021 and 2023. She is nicknamed as May Sai (), so as to not only avoid confusion with another May, which is Ratchanok "May" Intanon, but to also reference her left-handedness. Career Katethong started playing badminton at age nine and joined the Thailand national junior team in 2015. She won her first international title at the 2014 Singapore International tournament in the women's singles event. In the early of 2015, she won the women's singles title at the Granular Thailand International Challenge tournament. In May 2015, she won double titles at the Smiling Fish International tournament in the women's singles and doubles event. She also won the Sri Lanka International tournament in the women's singles event. In 2018, Katethong finished runners-up in the Indonesia International and Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beiwen Zhang
Beiwen Zhang (; born 12 July 1990) is a badminton player who is a singles specialist. Born in China, she previously represented Singapore and currently represents the United States. She won the women's singles title at the 2021 Pan Am Championships and at the 2023 Pan American Games. Career 2003–2013: Singapore Zhang was born in China and moved to Singapore at the age of 13 in 2003, under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme, and played with the Singapore National Team until 2012. In 2007, Zhang took up Singapore citizenship. In 2009, she was part of the Singapore national badminton team, winning a bronze medal at the women's team event of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games. After a one-year break in which she did not play any tournaments at all, in 2013, she came back on her way to reach top level again. In 2011, her contract with the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) was not renewed after a reported falling out with then-singles head coach Luan Ching over a curfew. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
