Badminton at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...

was held at a purpose-built temporary venue within the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
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Badminton medal count

2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...

 
Badminton medal count
Pos Country Total
1
Malaysia
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

4 3 0 7
2 England
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

2 1 2 5
3 Singapore
Singapore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Singapore was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 101-member strong contingent comprising 63 sportspersons and 38 officials...

0 1 1 2
4
New Zealand
New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia was represented by 249 athletescompeting in over 19 disciplines, with 119 officials...

0 1 0 1
5
India
India at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India....

0 0 2 2
6
Scotland
Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland announced on 3 November 2005 that Scotland would be sending 166 athletes to compete in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, supported by 70 officials...

0 0 1 1
6 6 6 18


The proposed events are listed below.

Medals by Event

Men: Singles | Doubles

Women: Singles | Doubles

Mixed: Doubles | Team

Men's singles

Medal Athlete
Gold Lee Chong Wei
Lee Chong Wei
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam. Lee won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games...

 (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Silver Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann is a professional Malaysian badminton player.He currently resides in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.-Career:Wong Choong Hann's career began with the 1991 Malaysia Open.The first tournament he won was the 1997 Dutch Open...

 (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Bronze Chetan Anand (IND
India at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India....

)

Women's singles

Medal Athlete
Gold Tracey Hallam
Tracey Hallam
-Career:Hallam played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In women's singles, she defeated Juliane Schenk of Germany and Camilla Martin of Denmark in the first two rounds...

 (ENG
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

)
Silver Wong Mew Choo (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Bronze Susan Hughes (SCO
Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland announced on 3 November 2005 that Scotland would be sending 166 athletes to compete in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, supported by 70 officials...

)

Men's doubles

Medal Athlete
Gold Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat is a professional badminton player from Malaysia. Besides being a men's doubles player, he also represents Malaysia in the mixed doubles event. He started his career at seventeen years of age and has won the Asian Junior title. He played in the Thomas Cup 2004 with Chan Chong Ming....

, Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming is a male badminton doubles player from Malaysia.-Career:Chan Chong Ming competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics with his then partner, Chew Choon Eng...

 (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Silver Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook is a male badminton player from Malaysia, who competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Lee Wan Wah. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pramote Teerawiwatana and Tesana Panvisvas of Thailand in the second...

, Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann is a professional Malaysian badminton player.He currently resides in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.-Career:Wong Choong Hann's career began with the 1991 Malaysia Open.The first tournament he won was the 1997 Dutch Open...

 (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Bronze Robert Blair
Robert Blair (badminton)
Robert Blair is a Scottish badminton player.Blair was born in Scotland, but after attending Loughborough University in Leicestershire, he competed for England from 2001 until 2010, except at the Olympic Games, where Scotland and England are both parts of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team...

, Anthony Clark
Anthony Clark (badminton)
Anthony Ian Clark is an English badminton player.-2004 Summer Olympics:Clark competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Nathan Robertson...

 (ENG
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

)

Women's doubles

Medal Athlete
Gold Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui is a female badminton player from Malaysia in the women's doubles event.-Career:Eei Hui competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Wong Pei Tty...

, Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty is a female badminton player from Malaysia.Wong competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chin Eei Hui...

 (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Silver Jiang Yanmei
Jiang Yanmei
Jiang Yanmei is a Singapore badminton player.Jiang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Yao Jie of the Netherlands in the round of 32.-References:***...

, Li Yujia
Li Yujia
Li Yujia is Singapore's national badminton player.Born in Hubei on 18 January 1983, she moved to Singapore at the age of 18 and is now a Singapore citizen....

 (SIN
Singapore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Singapore was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 101-member strong contingent comprising 63 sportspersons and 38 officials...

)
Bronze Donna Kellogg
Donna Kellogg
Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...

, Gail Emms
Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments....

 (ENG
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

)

Mixed doubles

Medal Athlete
Gold Nathan Robertson
Nathan Robertson
Nathan James Robertson is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event...

, Gail Emms
Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments....

 (ENG
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

)
Silver Dan Shirley, Sara Runesten Petersen (NZL
New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia was represented by 249 athletescompeting in over 19 disciplines, with 119 officials...

)
Bronze Hendri Kurniawan Saputra, Li Yujia
Li Yujia
Li Yujia is Singapore's national badminton player.Born in Hubei on 18 January 1983, she moved to Singapore at the age of 18 and is now a Singapore citizen....

 (SIN
Singapore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Singapore was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 101-member strong contingent comprising 63 sportspersons and 38 officials...

)

Mixed Team

Medal Athlete
Gold Malaysia (MAS
Malaysia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Malaysia is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 254-member strong contingent comprising 170 sportspersons and 84 officials...

)
Silver England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 (ENG
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England . The country went by the abbreviation ENG and used the St George's Cross as flag and Land of Hope and Glory as the national anthem....

)
Bronze India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 (IND
India at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India....

)


Mixed team preliminary matches were held on 16 March, 17 March, and 18 March. Finals were held on 19 March.

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