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The BWF World Championships, aka the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation. [1] It's the most prestigious badminton competition, offering the most ranking points , along with the Summer Olympics badminton events introduced in 1992. [ 2 ]
The World Cup in badminton was an annual tournament organized by the International Management Group (IMG). [1] It was held from 1979 to 1997. After the tournament ceased for seven years, Badminton World Federation decided to bring it back as an invitational tournament in 2005, [ 2 ] but it was ended after the 2006 event.
The tables below are Badminton World Cup medalists of all events (Men's and Women's Singles, Men's and Women's Doubles and Mixed). Men's singles. Year Host City
P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the gold medal at the World Championships and also became the only other woman singles player along with China's Zhang Ning to have won five World Championship medals. [6] Japanese Kento Momota, and the duo Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara retained their titles from the previous edition.
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 .
^2 – Badminton World Cup was suspended since 1997. However, the BWF revived the event in 2005 (with China as host) but only as an invitational tournament. ^3 – Badminton was introduced and only played at the 1981 World Games and became an Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ^a – Does not include team medals.
However, the system was last used in 2009 and teams competing will now be grouped by world rankings. [34] Badminton was a demonstration event at the 1972 and 1988 Summer Olympics. It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual ...
The 2022 BWF World Championships (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 22 to 28 August 2022 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.