Badminton at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul National University Gymnasium
Dates	19 September 1988
No. of events	5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
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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 19 September 1988.

Qualification

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

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Yang Yang  China	Icuk Sugiarto  Indonesia	Park Sung-bae  South Korea
Men's doubles details	Li Yongbo and Tian Bingyi (CHN)	Lee Sang-bok and Lee Gwang-jin (KOR)	Shuji Matsuno and Shinji Matsuura (JPN)
Women's singles details	Hwang Hye-young  South Korea	Han Aiping  China	Sumiko Kitada  Japan
Women's doubles details	Kim Yun-ja and Chung So-young (KOR)	Lin Ying and Guan Weizhen (CHN)	Dorte Kjær and Nettie Nielsen (DEN)
Mixed doubles details	Park Joo-bong and Chung Myung-hee (KOR)	Wang Pengren and Shi Fangjing (CHN)	Chan Chi Choi and Amy Chan Lim Chee (HKG)

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
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		5	5	5	15

Participating nations

•  China
•  Denmark
•  Indonesia
•  Japan
•  Sweden
•  Hong Kong
•  Great Britain
•  Canada
•  South Korea

References

• http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v1p2.pdf
• Official Olympic Report