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The world cups are, depending on the sport, either the highest level international tournaments in a given sport, or the second level of competition after world championships. List [ edit ]
Uriel Francisco Canjura Artiga (born 12 September 2000) is a Salvadoran badminton player. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is a bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games ; and also the silver medalists at the 2023 and 2024 Pan Am Championships .
In Basel 2019, for the first time since 1983, China only had one representative in the final round. [5] 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]
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). [ 1 ]
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 .
The following is a list of world sports championships, including some sporting events which use a different name with a similar meaning. In some sports, there is a world series, but that term usually has a somewhat different meaning.
The players collect points that determine whether they can play in Super Series Finals held at the year-end. Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships , first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.
The first tournament was originally planned for 1941–1942 (badminton seasons in the northern hemisphere traditionally ran from the autumn of one calendar year to the spring of the next) but was delayed due to World War II. Sir George's dream was realized in 1948–1949 when ten national teams participated in the first Thomas Cup competition.