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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 ...
Gideon is the son of former national badminton player, Kurniahu, who serves as a coach at Marcus' namesake badminton academy in Ciangsana, Bogor Regency. [124] He married a general practitioner, Agnes Amelinda Mulyadi on 14 April 2018. [125] His first son Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Jr. was born in January 2019. [126]
Rudy Hartono Kurniawan (born Nio Hap Liang (Chinese: 梁海量; pinyin: Liáng Hǎiliàng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Niô͘ Hái-liâng); [2] 18 August 1949) is an Indonesian former badminton player holding the record of winning the men's singles title at the All-England Championship eight times, [3] including seven times consecutively from 1968 to 1974. [4]
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) Hall of Fame is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.It honours both players and other contributors to the sport of badminton.The BWF Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization with the goal to preserve, celebrate, and inspire the sport of badminton around the world.
Tang Xianhu (Chinese: 汤仙虎; pinyin: Tāng Xiānhǔ; Indonesian: Fuad Nurhadi; born 13 March 1942) is a Indonesia-born Chinese former badminton player and coach. [2] In the early days of his career, Tang was unable to participate in international competitions due to political factors, but he defeated the world's top players many times during overseas visits and exchanges, and was known as ...
Mathias Boe (born 11 July 1980) is a Danish former badminton player. He was the gold medalist at the 2015 European Games, two time European champions winning in 2012 and 2017, and the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1]
Erland Kops (14 January 1937 – 18 February 2017) [1] was a badminton player from Denmark who won numerous major international singles and doubles titles from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Early life
Whether or not the sport of badminton was re-introduced from British India or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by John Wootton, as the tradition of the house has it), [7] it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.