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The badminton program included men's and women's singles competitions; men's, women's and mixed doubles competitions. [ 2 ] This was the first time Russian and Belarusian badminton players have competed internationally since the ban of the two nations in 2022.
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure.
Badminton was added to the Commonwealth Games program in 1966, as an optional sport. The sport was chosen to replace lawn bowls, due the lack of facilities at Jamaica. Having this status until the 1994 edition, when it became a mandatory sport.
Badminton fails to receive substantial media attention in the United States and with that comes low wages. Participants can earn up to $15,000 for winning a championship, which is a relatively small amount of money in comparison to an average football player that has a salary of $2.7 million.
The 2025 BWF World Tour (officially known as 2025 HSBC BWF World Tour for sponsorship reasons), is the eight season of the BWF World Tour of badminton, a circuit of 29 tournaments that lead up to the World Tour Finals tournament. [1]
The 2023 BWF World Championships (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 21 to 27 August 2023 in Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark. [1] Copenhagen hosted the BWF World Championships for the fifth time.
The men's singles badminton tournament at the 2024 BRICS Games took place from 13 to 16 June 2024 at the Kazan Gymnastics Center at Kazan. [ 1 ] Sergey Sirant emerged as champion in the men's singles event after defeating compatriot Artur Pechenkin in the final.
It is now organized annually, except once every four years when the Pan American Games multi-sports event is held. Badminton is part of the Pan American Games since 1995. Since then, 2007 was the only year both events (the Pan American Badminton Championships and the Pan American Games) were held simultaneously in the same year.