The Greatest Badminton Player at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest Badminton Player of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Badminton Player from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Tokyo 2020 Games.
There are many badminton players with two gold medals. The best all-time performing badminton player at the Olympic Games is female player Gao Ling of China, who competed in 2000 and 2004, winning four medals, two of them gold. The best ranked male player is China's Fu Haifeng, who has a silver medal in addition to his two golds. See the table below to see how other athletes ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Badminton Players
Here are the top-ranked athletes from the sport of Badminton for performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt). All athletes who have won at least 2 gold medals have been included in this list. Chinese player Gil Young-ah won 3 medals, though only one gold medal.
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Badminton at the Olympic Games (including 2021)
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gao Ling | China | F | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | Fu Haifeng | China | M | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| =3 | Kim Dong-moon | South Korea | M | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| =3 | Zhang Nan | China | M | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| =3 | Zhao Yunlei | China | F | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| =6 | Lin Dan | China | M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| =6 | Zhang Ning | China | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| =6 | Zhang Jun | China | M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| =6 | Ge Fei | China | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| =6 | Gu Jun | China | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
Related Pages
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- medal tables from all Olympic Games
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- Is it possible to find the badminton world record anywhere on this internet?!!!!!! (from random, July 29 2012)
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