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Doubles, Women

Date	25 – 31 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia State University Sports Arena, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants	54 from 18 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament.

Twenty-seven teams started with five given byes into the second round. The two top seeds were the Chinese pair of Ge Fei and Gu Jun, winners of the 1996 All-England title, and Korea’s Gir Yeong-A and Jang Hye-Ok, 1995 World Champions. Gil/Jang were seeded first, but Ge/Gu were world ranked #1, and they dominated the tournament. They won all four of their matches easily, never yielding more than 8 points in any game. In the final they faced Gil/Jang, and crushed them, 15-5, 15-5 in 36 minutes.

Pos	Pair	NOC
1	Ge Fei / Gu Jun	CHN	Gold
2	Gil Yeong-Ah / Jang Hye-Ok	KOR	Silver
3	Qin Yiyuan / Tang Yongshu	CHN	Bronze
4	Helene Kirkegaard / Rikke Olsen	DEN
=5	Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen / Marlene Thomsen	DEN
=5	Chen Ying / Peng Xingyong	CHN
=5	Eliza Nathanael / Zelin Resiana	INA
=5	Ann Jørgensen / Lotte Olsen	DEN
=9	Kim Mi-Hyang / Kim Sin-Yeong	KOR
=9	Masako Sakamoto / Tomomi Matsuo	JPN
=9	Joanne Wright / Julie Bradbury	GBR
=9	Finarsih / Lili Tampi	INA
=9	Jeong Jae-Hui / Park Su-Yeon	KOR
=9	Eline Coene / Erica van den Heuvel	NED
=9	Rhona Robertson / Tammy Jenkins	NZL
=9	Katrin Schmidt / Kerstin Ubben	GER
=17	Diana Koleva / Neli Nedyalkova-Boteva	BUL
=17	Marina Yakusheva / Yelena Rybkina	RUS
=17	Amanda Hardy / Rhonda Cator	AUS
=17	Erika Von Heiland / Linda French	USA
=17	Chen Li-Chin / Tsai Hui-Min	TPE
=17	Jo Muggeridge / Kelly Morgan	GBR
=17	Olena Nozdran / Viktoriya Yevtushenko	UKR
=17	Aiko Miyamura / Akiko Miyamura	JPN
=17	Denyse Julien / Si-An Deng	CAN
=17	Margit Borg / Maria Bengtsson	SWE
=17	Marie-Josephe Jean-Pierre / Martine de Souza	MRI

Round One

Date	25 July 1996
Format	Winner of each match advanced to round two.

Match	Date/Time	Pair (Seed)	NOC	Result	Pair (Seed)	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Gil / Jang (1)	KOR				bye
Match #2	25 Jul	Matsuo / Sakamoto	JPN	15-0, 15-4	Koleva / Nedyalkova-Boteva	BUL
Match #3	25 Jul	Bradbury / Wright (5/8)	GBR				bye
Match #4	25 Jul	Jørgensen / Olsen	DEN	15-13, 15-10	Rybkina / Yakusheva	RUS
Match #5	25 Jul	Qin / Tang (3/4)	CHN				bye
Match #6	25 Jul	Finarsih / Tampi	INA	15-9, 15-4	Cator / Hardy	AUS
Match #7	25 Jul	Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8)	DEN	15-4, 15-1	French / Von Heiland	USA
Match #8	25 Jul	Jeong / Park	KOR	15-7, 15-6	Chen / Tsai	TPE
Match #9	25 Jul	Coene / van den Heuvel	NED	15-10, 15-5	Morgan / Muggeridge	GBR
Match #10	25 Jul	Chen / Peng (5/8)	CHN	15-2, 11-15, 15-1	Yevtushenko / Nozdran	UKR
Match #11	25 Jul	Kim / Kim	KOR	15-12, 18-13	Miyamura / Miyamura	JPN
Match #12	25 Jul	Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4)	DEN				bye
Match #13	25 Jul	Jenkins / Robertson	NZL	15-7, 15-4	Deng / Julien	CAN
Match #14	25 Jul	Nathanael / Resiana (5/8)	INA	15-6, 15-13	Bengtsson / Borg	SWE
Match #15	25 Jul	Schmidt / Ubben	GER	15-1, 15-2	de Souza / Jean-Pierre	MRI
Match #16	25 Jul	Ge / Gu (2)	CHN				bye

Round Two

Date	27 July 1996
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Pair (Seed)	NOC	Result	Pair (Seed)	NOC
Match #1	27 Jul	Gil / Jang (1)	KOR	15-7, 15-6	Matsuo / Sakamoto	JPN
Match #2	27 Jul	Jørgensen / Olsen	DEN	15-4, 15-5	Bradbury / Wright (5/8)	GBR
Match #3	27 Jul	Qin / Tang (3/4)	CHN	15-1, 4-15, 15-6	Finarsih / Tampi	INA
Match #4	27 Jul	Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8)	DEN	15-8, 13-15, 15-9	Jeong / Park	KOR
Match #5	27 Jul	Chen / Peng (5/8)	CHN	15-8, 15-13	Coene / van den Heuvel	NED
Match #6	27 Jul	Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4)	DEN	15-8, 15-8	Kim / Kim	KOR
Match #7	27 Jul	Nathanael / Resiana (5/8)	INA	15-9, 15-2	Jenkins / Robertson	NZL
Match #8	27 Jul	Ge / Gu (2)	CHN	15-3, 15-6	Schmidt / Ubben	GER

Quarter-Finals

Date	28 July 1996
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Pair (Seed)	NOC	Result	Pair (Seed)	NOC
Match #1	28 Jul	Gil / Jang (1)	KOR	15-9, 15-9	Jørgensen / Olsen	DEN
Match #2	28 Jul	Qin / Tang (3/4)	CHN	15-8, 15-3	Stuer-Lauridsen / Thomsen (5/8)	DEN
Match #3	28 Jul	Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4)	DEN	15-6, 8-15, 15-5	Chen / Peng (5/8)	CHN
Match #4	28 Jul	Ge / Gu (2)	CHN	15-7, 15-3	Nathanael / Resiana (5/8)	INA

Semi-Finals

Date	29 July 1996
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the final round.

Match	Date/Time	Pair (Seed)	NOC	Result	Pair (Seed)	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul	Gil / Jang (1)	KOR	15-12, 10-15, 18-16	Qin / Tang (3/4)	CHN
Match #2	29 Jul	Ge / Gu (2)	CHN	15-8, 15-2	Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4)	DEN

Final Round

Date	30 – 31 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Pair (Seed)	NOC	Result	Pair (Seed)	NOC
Match 1/2	31 Jul 9:00	Ge / Gu (2)	CHN	15-5, 15-5	Gil / Jang (1)	KOR
Match 3/4	30 Jul 20:00	Qin / Tang (3/4)	CHN	7-15, 15-4, 15-8	Kirkegaard / Olsen (3/4)	DEN