Who won the 2016 Badminton Olympics?

The seeding was decided on 21 July 2016. The event was won by then two-time reigning world champion Carolina Marín of Spain who defeated P. V. Sindhu of India. Nozomi Okuhara of Japan won the bronze medal after China’s Li Xuerui was forced to withdraw.

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Besides, who won the 2016 Olympic gold medal in men’s single for badminton what country was he from?

Denmark
Badminton Men’s Singles Medals
Bronze Denmark
BBC Sport
Considering this, who is No 1 badminton player in the world? BWF World Rankings
RANK COUNTRY / TERRITORY PLAYER
1 JPN Kento MOMOTA
2 DEN Viktor AXELSEN
3 DEN Anders ANTONSEN
4 TPE CHOU Tien Chen

Hereof, who is the No 1 female badminton player?

BWF World Rankings

RANK COUNTRY / TERRITORY PLAYER
1 TPE TAI Tzu Ying
2 CHN CHEN Yu Fei
3 ESP Carolina MARIN
4 JPN Nozomi OKUHARA

Who is the best Olympic badminton player?

Gao Ling
rank name Gold
1 Gao Ling 2
2 Fu Haifeng 2
=3 Kim Dong-moon 2
=3 Zhang Nan 2

Where is badminton most popular?

Whilst badminton is a minority sport in the US it is widely played in Britain, Denmark, Sweden, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and several other countries. Britain alone has 4 million players, about 8% of the population. As a spectator sport it is very popular in the far east.

What was the first name of badminton?

Poona

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