Badminton at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Badminton
at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
VenueBolton Arena
LocationBolton, England
Dates25 July – 4 August 2002

Badminton at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was the tenth appearance of Badminton at the Commonwealth Games, Competition took place in Bolton, England, from 25 July to 4 August 2002.[1]

The badminton events took place at the Bolton Arena. There were no bronze medal play off matches because both losing semi-finalists were awarded a bronze medal. This was the only time that the scoring system of 7 points / 5 sets was used for a Commonwealth Games badminton event.[2][3]

Malaysia topped the badminton medal table by virtue of winning three gold medals.[4]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Malaysia (MAS)3339
2 England (ENG)*2147
3 Singapore (SIN)1102
4 New Zealand (NZL)0123
5 India (IND)0011
 Scotland (SCO)0011
 Wales (WAL)0011
Totals (7 entries)661224

Medallists

Category Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Muhammad Hafiz Hashim Lee Tsuen Seng Wong Choong Hann Richard Vaughan
Women's singles Li Li Tracey Hallam Ng Mee Fen Aparna Popat
Men's doubles Chan Chong Ming
Chew Choon Eng
Chang Kim Wai
Choong Tan Fook
Nathan Robertson
Anthony Clark
Simon Archer
James Anderson
Women's doubles Ang Li Peng
Lim Pek Siah
Nicole Gordon
Sara Petersen
Gail Emms
Joanne Goode
Chin Eei Hui
Wong Pei Tty
Mixed doubles Simon Archer
Joanne Goode
Chew Choon Eng
Chin Eei Hui
Daniel Shirley
Sara Petersen
Anthony Clark
Sara Sankey
Mixed team England Singapore New Zealand Scotland

Final results

Category Gold Silver Score
Men's singles Muhammad Hafiz Hashim Lee Tsuen Seng 7-3, 7-1, 3-7, 7-8 7-4
Women's singles Li Li Tracey Hallam 7-5, 5-7, 8-7, 7-0
Men's doubles Chan Chong Ming & Chew Choon Eng Chang Kim Wai & Choong Tan Fook 7-5, 4-7, 2-7, 7-5, 7-3
Women's doubles Ang Li Peng & Lim Pek Siah Nicole Gordon & Sara Petersen 7-8, 7-4, 2-7, 7-5, 7-0
Mixed doubles Simon Archer & Joanne Goode Chew Choon Eng & Chin Eei Hui 0-7, 7-5 7-3, 7-3
Mixed team England Singapore 3-0

Results

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Men's singles

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Muhammad Hafiz Hashim 7 7 7
Stuart Brehaut 0 0 1 Hafiz 8 7 7
Nick Hall 8 4 8 7 Hall 6 4 4
Mark Constable 6 7 6 1 Hafiz 6 8 7 7 7
Wong Choong Hann 7 7 7 Hann 8 6 0 8 3
John Gordon 0 2 2 Hann 7 7 7
Pullela Gopichand 7 7 7 Pullela 1 1 4
Stephan Wojcikiewicz 0 1 1 Hafiz 7 7 3 7 7
Lee Tsuen Seng 7 4 7 4 7 Seng 3 1 7 8 4
Nikhil Kanetkar 3 7 4 7 5 Seng 7 7 7
Geoffrey Bellingham 7 7 7 Bellingham 4 0 2
Dinuka Karunaratne 3 3 1 Seng 7 7 7
Richard Vaughan 6 7 8 3 7 Vaughan 4 0 1
Ronald Susilo 8 2 6 7 1 Vaughan 7 7 3 7
Abhinn Shyam Gupta 8 7 7 Gupta 4 1 7 3
Colin Haughton 6 5 3

Women's singles

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Li Li 7 7 7
Kara Solmundson 1 1 3 Li 7 7 4 7
Kelly Morgan 7 7 7 Morgan 4 4 7 4
B. R. Meenakshi 3 3 1 Li 7 7 7
Ng Mee Fen 5 7 7 4 7 Ng 3 0 1
Trupti Murgunde 7 2 3 7 2 Ng 2 7 7 7
Julia Mann 7 7 7 Mann 7 2 2 5
Fiona Sneddon 1 3 1 Li 7 5 8 7
Tracey Hallam 7 7 7 Hallam 5 7 7 0
Lisa Lynas 1 1 1 Hallam 2 5 7 7 8
Susan Hughes 7 8 7 Hughes 7 7 5 0 6
R. C. Hettiarachchige 0 7 0 Hallam 7 7 7
Aparna Popat 7 7 7 Popat 3 3 1
Amrita Sawaram 0 1 0 Popat 7 7 7
Denyse Julien 5 7 7 7 Julien 1 0 0
Nicole Gordon 7 4 3 4

Men's doubles

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                     
  Chan Chong Ming
Chew Choon Eng
7 7 7
  Keith Chan
William Milroy
4 1 1
  Chan
Chew
7 7 7
  Anderson
Archer
4 5 2
  Peter Blackburn
Murray Hocking
7 5 6 1
  James Anderson
Simon Archer
3 7 8 7
  Chan
Chew
7 4 2 7 7
  Chang
Choong
5 7 7 5 3
  Sanave Thomas
Valiyaveetil Diju
1 4 6
  Anthony Clark
Nathan Robertson
7 7 8
  Clark
Robertson
5 3 4
  Chang
Choong
8 7 7
  Chang Kim Wai
Choong Tan Fook
8 7 7 7
  John Gordon
Daniel Shirley
7 8 3 2

Women's doubles

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                     
  Ang Li Peng
Lim Pek Siah
7 7 7
  Denyse Julien
Tammy Sun
0 1 4
Peng
Siah
7 6 8 7
Emms
Goode
4 8 6 4
  Gail Emms
Joanne Goode
7 7 4 7
  Fatimah Kumin Lim
Jiang Yanmei
4 5 7 1
Peng
Siah
7 7 2 7 7
Gordon
Petersen
8 4 7 5 0
  Nicole Gordon
Sara Petersen
6 7 7 3 7
  Elinor Middlemiss
Kirsteen McEwan
8 3 5 7 4
Gordon
Petersen
7 7 7
Chin
Wong
3 3 3
  Chin Eei Hui
Wong Pei Tty
4 1 7 7 7
  Felicity Gallup
Jo Muggeridge
7 7 1 0 4

Mixed doubles

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                     
  Simon Archer
Joanne Goode
7 7 7
  Patrick Lau Kim Pong
Jiang Yanmei
2 0 3
Archer
Goode
7 5 8 4 7
Shirley
Petersen
1 7 6 7 2
  Daniel Shirley
Sara Petersen
7 4 7 7
  Russell Hogg
Kirsteen McEwan
2 7 3 1
Archer
Goode
0 7 7 7
Eng
Hui
7 5 3 3
  Chew Choon Eng
Chin Eei Hui
7 8 1 7
  Nathan Robertson
Gail Emms
5 6 7 4
Eng
Hui
4 3 7 7 7
Clark
Sankey
7 7 4 4 0
  Anthony Clark
Sara Sankey
7 7 7
  William Milroy
Denyse Julien
4 4 1

Mixed Team

Semi finals

Team One Team Two Score
Singapore New Zealand 3-1
Team One Team Two Score
England Scotland 3-0[7]
Colin Haughton Gaham Simpson 7–1, 4–7, 7–0, 7–1
Joanne Goode & Gail Emms Yuan Wemyss & Sandra Watt 7–4, 7–2, 7–5
Tracey Hallam Susan Hughes 7–3, 8–6, 7–2

Final

Team One Team Two Score
England Singapore 3-0
Nathan Robertson & Gail Emms Patrick Lau Kim Pong & Jiang Yanmei 7-0, 7-4, 7-4
Colin Haughton Ronald Susilo 5-7, 7-4, 7-0, 0-7, 7-3
Tracey Hallam Li Li 6-8, 7-4, 1-7, 7-1, 7-1

References

  1. ^ "Results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. ^ The Laws of the Badminton - 5 × 7 scoring system
  3. ^ Scoring experiment ends at Games.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Badminton". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries.
  6. ^ "Results: Badminton - Men's Doubles". m2002.thecgf.com. Retrieved 25 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ^ "Badminton". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 30 July 2002. p. 74. Retrieved 22 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.