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The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Summer Olympic Games , [ 1 ] as well as BWF World Tour tournaments. [ 2 ]
The BWF World Championships, aka the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation. [1] It's the most prestigious badminton competition, offering the most ranking points, along with the Summer Olympics badminton events introduced in 1992. [2]
One other category of the tournament, the BWF Tour Super 100 (level 6), also offers BWF World Tour ranking points. It still acts as an important part of the pathway and entry point for players into the BWF Tour tournaments. BWF announced that there will be 10 tournaments for the BWF Tour Super 100 in 2024. [2]
Rank Nation / Player Points Eligibility Note Qualifiers 1 Akane Yamaguchi: 102,713 1 Japan (1) BA highest ranked 2 An Se-young: 97,253 2 South Korea (1) 3 Chen Yufei: 91,956 3 China (1) 4 Tai Tzu-ying: 91,745 4 Chinese Taipei (1) 5 He Bingjiao: 78,804 5 China (2) 6 Carolina Marín: 75,930 6 Spain (1) BE highest ranked 7 Wang Zhiyi: 73,358 7
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.
Every four years, the BWF Council will review the countries that host a BWF World Tour tournament. There is a BWF World Tour Finals, four Super 1000, six Super 750, nine Super 500, and eleven Super 300 tournaments in a season. [1] BWF Tour Super 100 tournaments are still counted to earn the points to BWF World Tour Finals.
The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since 29 December 2011 (current number one players are marked in bold): Last update: 20 August 2024. NOTE: BWF has frozen the World Rankings from 17 March until 11 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rankings updated occasionally, not every weeks.
Rank Nation / Player Points Eligibility Note 1 Tai Tzu-ying: 108,800 1 Chinese Taipei (1) BA highest ranked 2 Akane Yamaguchi: 108,749 2 Japan (1) Host nation presenter 3 Chen Yufei: 102,454 3 China (1) 4 An Se-young: 101,053 4 South Korea (1) 5 Nozomi Okuhara: 95,886 5 Japan (2) 6 Carolina Marín: 95,800 6 Spain (1) BE highest ranked 7 P. V ...