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The Badminton Association of England (BAE) published these rules in 1893 and officially launched the sport at a house called "Dunbar" [c] in Portsmouth on 13 September. [12] The BAE started the first badminton competition, the All England Open Badminton Championships for gentlemen's doubles, ladies' doubles, and mixed doubles, in 1899. [ 5 ]
It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. In 1981, the IBF merged with the World Badminton Federation , and on 24 September 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid , the name of the ...
It is one of the five continental bodies under the flag of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It has 53 member associations and 1 associate member. It was founded on 27 September 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany. [1] At its annual meeting held on 8 April 2006 the members decided to change the name from European Badminton Union, to Badminton Europe.
German Badminton Association (DBV, German: Deutscher Badminton-Verband) is the national governing body for the sport of badminton in Germany. The association consists of state badminton associations from 16 states of Germany .
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the European Championships. On 15 January 2008, Manchester of England won the bid to stage the 2010 event which saw the separation the team event into different championships. [3] Starting from 2017, the championship will be an annual event except for the year with European ...
Badminton Ireland, formally the Badminton Union of Ireland, [2] is the national governing body for the sport of badminton in Ireland and Northern Ireland. As of January 2024, there are more than 15,000 registered players.
The idea of establishing a badminton tournament for the small states of Europe began in 2017 during the Badminton Europe Congress in Prague. Malta, Cyprus, and Monaco envisioned a team badminton event uniting small European states, as badminton is not part of the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE).