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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.
Judy Devlin is the most successful female player ever in the All England Badminton Championships, with 17 titles, 10 of them in women's singles and 7 in women's doubles. Devlin appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 March 1970, [2] and was inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997, together with her ...
Three years after his death, the International Badminton Federation (IBF) inducted him into its Hall of Fame posthumously in May 1999. [54] Then chairman of the IBF, H R Ward , commented, that "Wong was one of the most remarkable players" and "had enhanced the sport through exceptional achievements".
Watch live as retired badminton world champions Lin Dan of China and Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia - widely considered two of the sport’s greatest players - are inducted into the BWF Hall of Fame.
She is the only person to have represented the US at the highest level of international competition in all three sports, [1] and is the only person to have won the U.S. national singles championships of both badminton and squash or to have been inducted into the respective U.S. halls of fame of both sports. [2] [3] [4]
Gu Jun was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame in 2008. Summer Olympics. Gu competed in the Atlanta 1996 Olympics in the women's doubles with Ge Fei.
Chris Kinard (born November 8, 1950, in Pasadena, California) is an American badminton player who was considered the top U.S. singles player in the 1970s, having been the U.S. # 1 ranked men's singles player for 7 of the decade's 10 years. He is married to former badminton player Utami Kinard.
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