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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building [1] in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, which has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century. The house, which has given its name to the sport of badminton, is set among 52,000 acres (21,000 ha) of
The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. 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 .
العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; Basa Bali; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Victor was founded in 1968 by Chen Den-li (陳登立), producing badminton shuttlecocks which in two years topped the sales in Taiwan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It expanded its distribution to Europe after Guido Schmidt started the distribution with VICTOR Sport Vertriebs GmbH as the trademark rights holder for the continent. [ 6 ]
Category: Badminton in Europe by country. 2 languages. ... Badminton in Georgia (country) (3 P) Badminton in Germany (2 C, 2 P) Badminton in Greece (2 C, 4 P) H.
In Europe, battledore and shuttlecock was played by children for centuries (the OED dates the words to 1598 and 1599 respectively), [clarification needed] and ancient drawings appearing to depict the game have been found in Greece. [1] It was still being played in the College Garden, Glasgow, Scotland in August 1850, [3] and Japan in 1890 and ...
Category: Badminton by country. 31 languages. ... Badminton in North Korea (1 P) Badminton in Northern Mariana Islands (1 C, 1 P) Badminton in Norway (2 C, 1 P) P.