The men's doubles badminton tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 24 to 31 July at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza at Tokyo. There were 16 pairs from 14 nations competing.

Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin of Chinese Taipei defeated China's Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the final, 21–18, 21–12, to win the gold medal in men's doubles badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was Chinese Taipei's first gold medal in Olympic badminton, and marked the first time since 2008 that the winner of the event was not from the People's Republic of China. In the bronze-medal match, Malaysia's Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik defeated Indonesia's Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, 17–21, 21–17, 21–14. It was Malaysia's second consecutive medal in the event.

China's Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan were the reigning gold medalists from 2016, but Fu retired from international badminton in 2017 and Zhang chose not to participate in the event.

Background This was the 8th appearance of the event as a full medal event. Badminton was introduced as a demonstration sport in 1972, held again as an exhibition sport in 1988, and added to the full programme in 1992; the men's doubles tournament has been held since.

The reigning champions were Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan of China, who were not defending their title. Fu retired after the 2016 Games, having reached three consecutive finals with two different partners (Zhang and Cai Yun) and winning two gold medals and a silver medal. The top two qualifying teams were both from Indonesia: Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan. The latter pair were also reigning world champions from the 2019 BWF World Championships.

Qualification

The badminton qualification system provided for 16 men's doubles teams (32 players). Following revisions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the qualifying periods were set from 29 April 2019 to 15 March 2020 and from 4 January to 13 June 2021, with the ranking list of 15 June 2021 deciding qualification.

Qualification was done entirely through the ranking list. Nations with at least two pairs in the top 8 were able to send a maximum of 2 pairs (4 players); all other nations were limited to a single pair. Pairs were taken from the ranking list in order, respecting those national limits, until 16 pairs were selected. However, each continent was guaranteed to have at least one pair with the lowest-ranking pairs displaced if necessary to make room for a continental guarantee.

Competition format The tournament was started with a group phase round-robin. There were four groups of four teams each; the top two highest-ranked pairs from each group advanced to the knockout stage. The knockout stage was a three-round single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match.

Matches were played best-of-three games. Each game was played to 21, except that a pair must win by 2 unless the score reached 30–29.

Seeds (quarter-finals) (fourth place) (silver medalists) (quarter-finals)

Schedule The tournament was held over an 8-day period, with 7 competition days and 1 open day.

PPreliminariesQFQuarter-finalsSFSemi-finalsMMedal matches Date 24 Jul 25 Jul 26 Jul 27 Jul 28 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul 1 Aug 2 AugEvent M E M E M E M E M E M E M A M E A E A E Men's doubles P QF SF M

Group stage Group A

Date TimePair 1ScorePair 2Set 1Set 2Set 3 24 July 12:20 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 2–0 Ben Lane Sean Vendy 21–15 21–11 Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin 1–2 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty 16–21 21–16 25–27 26 July 11:20 Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin 2–0 Ben Lane Sean Vendy 21–17 21–14 12:40 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 2–0 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty 21–13 21–12 27 July 12:00 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 1–2 Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin 18–21 21–15 17–21 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty 2–0 Ben Lane Sean Vendy 21–17 21–19

Group B

Date TimePair 1ScorePair 2Set 1Set 2Set 3 24 July 13:00 Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 2–0 Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov 21–13 21–18 20:00 Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe 2–0 Godwin Olofua Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori 21–2 21–7 25 July 12:40 Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe 2–0 Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov 21–19 21–19 26 July 18:00 Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 2–0 Godwin Olofua Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori 21–7 21–10 27 July 11:20 Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe 2–0 Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 21–14 21–12 18:40 Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov 2–0 Godwin Olofua Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori 21–8 21–10

Group C

Date TimePair 1ScorePair 2Set 1Set 2Set 3 24 July 11:00 Li Junhui Liu Yuchen 2–0 Phillip Chew Ryan Chew 21–9 21–17 19:20 Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda 2–0 Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 21–13 21–8 25 July 18:40 Li Junhui Liu Yuchen 2–0 Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 21–14 21–13 26 July 10:00 Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda 2–0 Phillip Chew Ryan Chew 21–11 21–3 27 July 10:00 Li Junhui Liu Yuchen 2–0 Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda 21–14 21–16 18:00 Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel 2–0 Phillip Chew Ryan Chew 21–10 21–16

Group D

Date TimePair 1ScorePair 2Set 1Set 2Set 3 24 July 18:00 Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan 2–0 Jason Ho-Shue Nyl Yakura 21–12 21–11 Choi Sol-gyu Seo Seung-jae 0–2 Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik 22–24 15–21 25 July 10:00 Choi Sol-gyu Seo Seung-jae 2–0 Jason Ho-Shue Nyl Yakura 21–14 21–8 26 July 19:20 Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan 2–0 Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik 21–16 21–19 27 July 12:40 Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan 2–1 Choi Sol-gyu Seo Seung-jae 21–12 19–21 21–18 20:00 Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik 2–0 Jason Ho-Shue Nyl Yakura 21–15 21–13

Finals The quarter-finals were held on 29 July 2021, the semi-finals on the next day, and the medal matches on 31 July 2021.

References

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