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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.
Blazing Birds is a badminton-like action-sports video game developed by Vector 2 Games (now Silver Dollar Games) and published by Microsoft Games Studios. It was released on May 20, 2009, worldwide for the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade).
The 2025 BWF season is the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2025 badminton season. The world badminton tournament in 2025 consists of: 1. BWF tournaments (Grade 1; Major Events) BWF World Mixed Team Championships (Sudirman Cup) BWF World Championships; 2. BWF World Tour (Grade 2)
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 ...
Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
Badminton events at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia took place between Thursday 5 April and Sunday 15 April at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre. [ 1 ] Badminton is one of ten core sports at the Commonwealth Games and has been continuously held at the Games since its first appearance at the 1966 British Empire and ...
Notes 1: 1 China Zhu Yiding Lin Xiaojun Li Wenlong Liu Shaolin: 7:10.291: QA 2: 1 Japan Shun Saito Osuke Irie Daito Ochi Kota Kikuchi: 7:14.926: QA 3: 1 Chinese Taipei Tsai Chia-wei Lin Chun-chieh Lai Tsai Huan-chen Chang Chuan-lin: 7:31.168: QB 1 Thailand Chonlachart Taprom Phooripat Changmai Prakit Borvornmongkolsak Chirawat Phonkat: PEN: 1: ...
The individual events for badminton at the 2021 SEA Games will be held from 19 to 22 May 2022 at the Bac Giang Gymnasium, Bắc Giang, Vietnam. [1] It will be contesting 5 events: the men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.