Badminton has been included on the programme of the Olympic Games for the 10^th straight time. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed badminton as one of 31 sports for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

Badminton will continue to have five medal events – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles, with a total quota of 172 athletes (86 male and 86 female).

Badminton made its debut as an Olympic medal sport at Barcelona 1992 and has been part of every Olympics since. While Barcelona 1992 had only four medal events in badminton, from the next Olympics onwards, all five events have been played.

The event programme and athlete quotas for LA28 were approved by the Executive Board of the IOC on Wednesday 9 April. There are a total of 351 medal events, 22 more than at Paris 2024.

For the first time in history, all team sports will have at least the same number of women’s teams as men’s teams. Gender equality was a key consideration when deciding on the athlete quota and the number of events. Out of 351 events, there are 161 women’s events, 165 men’s events and 25 mixed events.

The IOC Executive Board followed the recommendation from the Olympic Programme Commission and the principles approved in 2023, which specified that the Games should be gender equal, globally appealing, cost and complexity conscious, and athlete focused.

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