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Badminton was introduced and only played at the 1981 World Games. The badminton events of World Games I were held on July 25–28, 1981, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California, in the United States. These were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were hosted by the city of Santa Clara.
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).
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
In 1981, the IBF merged with the World Badminton Federation, and on 24 September 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid, the name of the organization was changed to Badminton World Federation. [2] When the BWF was founded, its head office was located in Cheltenham, UK. It was then relocated to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 1 ...
The special shuttlecock and the idea of the game were invented in 2001 in Berlin by Bill Brandes. [3] The game was refined into the final game of crossminton by the Speedminton company. The inventor first named his new sport "shuttleball", but soon the game was renamed "speed badminton".
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 winners of the tournament are World ...
The 2025 BWF World Tour (officially known as 2025 HSBC BWF World Tour for sponsorship reasons), is the eight season of the BWF World Tour of badminton, a circuit of 29 tournaments that lead up to the World Tour Finals tournament. [1]
Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984 in Pemalang, Central Java, Indonesia) reached a career-high ranking of no. 1 in the men's doubles on 27 September 2007. He became Olympic champion in 2008 and is also a 4-time World Champion. He announced his retirement on 3 December 2024. The 2025 Indonesia Masters was his last tournament. [3] [4]