Five Olympic Berths Secured for Indian Badminton Players in Paris 2024

Five slots in the badminton competition of Paris 2024 Olympics have been secured by the Indian badminton players, including PV Sindhu. The Race to Paris listing, a ranking system used by the sporting body i.e. the Badminton World Federation (BWF), has been declared to have secured these spots.

The reigning world champion PV Sindhu, winner of silver medal in Rio 2016 Olympics and bronze medal in Tokyo 2020 Olympics readies herself for the quota as she finished 12th spot in the published list on Tuesday as per Olympics.com.

The first sixteen players (of maximum two from each country) of the rankings of ‘Race to Paris’ race for men and women got their nations a place in Olympics.

Altogether, 35 shuttlers cut in those lists as quota places for continental representation.

In the men's singles competition, HS Prannoy (ranked 9th and Commonwealth Games winner)- and current world no. 13 and Lakshya Sen will essentially make the Olympic quotas for India for Paris 2024 Olympic games.

The next twins of India quotas were born in the doubles competition where Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy secured the third place in the men's doubles list and Ashwini Ponappa and Tanisha Crasto finished 13th in the women's doubles.

• After winning the gold medal in the Asian Games in Hangzhou last year, Chirag-Satwik became the first-ever Indian doubles duo to hold the top spot in the global rankings.
• Ashwini and Crasto won two Super 100 championship titles, the Abu Dhabi Masters and Guwahati Masters,
• the Syed Modi International BWF Super 300 competition, coming in second and third respectively.

India might have the joint-largest badminton team at the Olympics with seven quotas. This is because they competed with seven shuttlers in the Rio Olympics in 2016.