USA Badminton announced the U.S. badminton athlete roster in May.
Seven athletes qualified and have been nominated to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to be members of Team USA in Paris this summer. The team features the most U.S. badminton athletes at the Olympics since Rio 2016, when the U.S. qualified seven athletes. The seven Americans will compete in all five of the events during the Olympic badminton tournament. The Badminton World Federation confirmed the list of 173 total athletes set to compete in Paris on May 10, 2024.
As of 2024, the U.S. has yet to win a medal in badminton for any of the five events.
Who will play for the U.S. badminton team at the Paris Olympics?
Leading the U.S. badminton team in Paris is Olympic veteran Beiwen Zhang. Currently ranked No. 10 in the world, Zhang qualified for the women's singles event. Zhang debuted at the 2020 Tokyo Games and advanced out of group play to the Round of 16 until she had to retire due to injury. She most recently won a gold medal in women’s singles at the 2024 Pan Am Individual Championships.
Howard Shu of California will compete in the men's event. Paris will be Shu's second Olympic appearance, after his debut in Rio in 2016.
The U.S. women's doubles team will be seeing double, as identical twins Annie and Kerry Xu qualified for their first Olympics. The California natives won a silver medal at both the 2024 Pan Am Individual Championships and the 2023 Pan American Games.
Vinson Chiu from Newport Beach, California and Joshua Yuan from Foster City, California, will compete in the men's doubles event. The pair took home a bronze medal at the 2024 Pan Am Individual Championships.
Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai round out the team and will compete in the mixed doubles event. The tandem recently won a silver medal at both the 2024 Pan Am Individual Championships and the 2023 Pan American Games.