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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).
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Porte de La Chapelle Arena during the Games. The badminton tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 5 August at Porte de La Chapelle Arena. [1] [2] A total of 171 badminton players competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games.
She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games. [7] She rose to a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in April 2017. [8] Sindhu broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Rankings in September 2012, at the age of 17. [9]
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport.Two decades later, after a successful exhibition at the 1988 games, the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.
Ben Lane (born 13 July 1997) is an English badminton player. [1] He won the men's doubles silver medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games , 2023 European Games , and also a bronze medal in the European Championships .
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [120] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
The region has multiple badminton academies and coaching facilities. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the national governing body of badminton in India. It organises multiple national tournaments. In 2022, the Indian Badminton team won for the first time in the Thomas Cup, which is a badminton multinational tournament. [122]