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Ethiopia competed in the 2006 African Mixed Team Championships but did not advance to the knockout stage. [6] A year later, the team competed in the 2007 All-Africa Games but were eliminated in the group stages. [7] In the 2011 All-Africa Games, the team were eliminated in the group stage after losing 5–0 to South Africa and 4–1 to Botswana.
The Ethiopia International is an international badminton tournament established in 2011, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and rated as BWF Future Series event. [1] The 2011 tournament points used as a qualification for the players to compete at the London Olympic Games . [ 2 ]
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.
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The first six nations to compete in badminton at the Games were Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius and Seychelles. Six main events were held, which were men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and the mixed team event. [1] In the 2023 Games, the mixed team event was cancelled. [2]
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William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]