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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. [1] A total of 39 players from 34 nations competed at the tournament.
The women's singles tournament of the 2023 BWF World Championships took place from 21 to 27 August 2023 at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen. Akane Yamaguchi was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Carolina Marin in the semi-finals.
Below is listed the Badminton World Federation's World Championships medalists in the men's and women's singles, also in the men's, women's and mixed doubles events. The champion(s) of the tournament win a gold medal, the runners-up take the silver medal, and both losing semifinalists are awarded bronze medals.
Weeks spent as top-ranked women's singles shuttler from 1990 to week 12 of 2020 (Note: There is a slight difference in total counts due to the nonsynchronous nature of unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009, hence the non-display of Ratchanok INTANON above.)
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings are used to determine the qualification of the players for the tournament. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles if both are ranked in the world's top 16; otherwise, one quota place until the roster of thirty-eight players has been completed.
The badminton qualification system was designed to ensure that 86 men and 86 women receive quota spots; the size of the women's singles field adjusts to hit that target quota. Following revisions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the qualifying periods were set between 29 April 2019 to 15 March 2020 and 4 January to 13 June 2021, with the ranking ...
The host nation France reserves a spot each in the men's and women's singles to be officially awarded to its respective highest-ranked badminton player, while four places (two per gender) were entitled to the eligible NOCs interested to have badminton players compete for Paris 2024 under the Universality principle. [4] [5]
The women's singles tournament of the 2022 BWF World Championships took place from 22 to 28 August 2022 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo. Defending champion Akane Yamaguchi defeated Chen Yu Fei , 21-12, 10-21, 21-14 to retain her title.