Badminton at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games was held in Bendigo in the Australian state of Victoria in the months of November and December. This was the first time badminton was introduced in the games, in which only the mixed team event was held. Mixed team event was played with the format of Boys' singles, Girls' singles, Boys' doubles, Girls' doubles and Mixed doubles. Malaysia emerged as the champion, while India and England settled with silver and bronze medals respectively.

Medalists Mixed team Azrihanif Azahar Lyddia Cheah Tan Boon Heong Hoon Thien How Ng Hui Lin Woon Khe Wei Anand Pawar Saina Nehwal Sagar Chopda Jishnu Sanyal Aparna Balan Rajiv Ouseph Helen Ward Andrew Ellis Dean George Heather Olver Jenny Wallwork

Participant countries and squads England, India, Malaysia, Australia, Scotland, South Africa, New Zealand and Singapore participated in this edition.

Pool A Pool A consisted of top seed Malaysia, Scotland, fourth seed Singapore and Australia.

Malaysia Azrihanif Azahar Hoon Thien How Lyddia Cheah Ng Hui Lin Tan Boon Heong Woon Khe Wei

Scotland Imogen Bankier Julie Boyd Watson Briggs Stuart Gilliland Emma Mason Calum Menzies

Singapore Chew Swee Hau Colleen Goh Koh Yan Sen Vanessa Neo Aaron Tan Karen Yuen

Australia Erin Carroll Tiger Chen Sue Li Hong Erica Pong Raymond Tam Jeff Tho

Pool B Pool B consisted of second seed England, New Zealand, third seeded India and South Africa.

England Andrew Ellis Dean George Heather Olver Rajiv Ouseph Jenny Wallwork Helen Ward

New Zealand Michelle Chan Garbo Choi Belinda Hill Chan Yun Lung Henry Tam Joe Wu

India Aparna Balan Sagar Chopda Saina Nehwal Anand Pawar Jishnu Sanyal

South Africa Richard Anderton Rowen Brown Stacey Doubell Annari Viljoen

Group matches Pool A Malaysia V/s Scotland

Singapore V/s Australia

Malaysia V/s Australia

Singapore V/s Scotland

Malaysia V/s Singapore

Scotland V/s Australia

Pool B England V/s New Zealand

India V/s South Africa

England V/s South Africa

India V/s New Zealand

England V/s India

New Zealand V/s South Africa

Interpool matches Scotland V/s South Africa

New Zealand V/s Australia

Classification matches 5th and 6th place : Scotland V/s New Zealand

7th and 8th place : Australia V/s South Africa

Semifinals Malaysia V/s England

India V/s Singapore

Bronze medal match England V/s Singapore

Final tie Malaysia V/s India

Final classification Position Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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