en 2013 BWF World Championships

The 2013 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 5 to 11 August 2013 at the Tianhe Sports Center in Guangzhou, China.^[1]

Host city selection

Copenhagen, Guangzhou, and Macau submitted bids for this edition of championships.^[2] On 9 December 2011, Badminton World Federation decided to award the championships to Guangzhou during a meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand.^{[citation needed]}

The draw was held on 22 July at Guangzhou, China.

All five events started on the first day and concluded with the final on the last day.

All times are local (UTC+8).

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Lin Dan	Lee Chong Wei	Du Pengyu
Men's Singles	Lin Dan	Lee Chong Wei	Nguyễn Tiến Minh
Women's Singles	Ratchanok Intanon	Li Xuerui	Bae Yeon-ju
Women's Singles	Ratchanok Intanon	Li Xuerui	P. V. Sindhu
Men's Doubles	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng
Men's Doubles	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Kim Ki-jung Kim Sa-rang
Women's Doubles	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Eom Hye-won Chang Ye-na	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Women's Doubles	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Eom Hye-won Chang Ye-na	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei
Mixed Doubles	Tontowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	Xu Chen Ma Jin	Shin Baek-cheol Eom Hye-won
Mixed Doubles	Tontowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	Xu Chen Ma Jin	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

* Host nation (China)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	2	2	4	8
2	Indonesia (INA)	2	0	0	2
3	Thailand (THA)	1	0	0	1
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
6	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
7	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
7	Vietnam (VIE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		5	5	10	20

345 players from 49 countries participated at this year's edition. The number in parentheses indicate the player contributed by each country.

^ "2013 BWF World Championships". BWF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
^ Sachetat, Raphaël. "WORLDS 2013 – Macau, Copenhagen and Guangzhou". Badzine.net. Retrieved 18 March 2017.